Performance Assessment and Comparison of

Different M.P.P.T. Techniques for P.V. Systems

Arnab Das

M.Tech Energy Systems

23/11/2010
 Project Overview

• Maximum Power Point Tracker is a photovoltaic system that uses the photovoltaic array
as a source of electrical power supply

• MPPT is needed to operate the PV array at its maximum power point

• MPPT techniques are compared on the basis of their performance in different atmospheric
condition

• The following three methods will be compared in this paper

1) Perturb and Observe

2) Incremental Conductance
3) Fractional Short-Circuit Current
 Literature Review

•  Mathematical Model of PV cell

• Circuit Diagram of PV array

 Perturb And Observe Method

• This method is most commonly used because of its ease of

implementation

• The tracker periodically increases or decreases the solar array

voltage and compares the power output

• While increasing, if the power increases then it continues to increase

else it decreases to the previous voltage where the maximum power

point was achieved

 Perturb And Observe Method

• P-V curve
 Selection of M.P.P.T
• Example of Solarcon M.P.P.T is taken
• The following steps to be followed while selecting :
o A) SPT-XXYY (XX is nominal battery voltage, YY is maximum charge
current)
o B) Find out what is nominal battery voltage that charge controller will charge
and select XX
o C) Find out what is Wp of PV module
o D) Select the suitable charge current (CC) = (Wp) / XX
o E) Find out YY by multiply CC by safety factor (NEC requirement) = (CC) x
1.2
o F) Select SOLARCON SPT-series model that covers YY
 Selection Of M.P.P.T
Things to check

a) Check that Vpm(system) is in range that SPT-XXYY can handle

(MPPT voltage range) 

b) If PV modules are in series, need to check that Vpm(system) =

Vpm(module) x Modules in series

c) If PV modules are in parallel, need to check that Vpm(system) =

Vpm(module)

d) Check that Voc(system) is not more than SPT-XXYY range

(Maximum open circuit voltage)

Flow Chart for P & O method
 Data Collection

Sl. No. Day Insolation Voltage Current Power Time Duty cycle

               

               

               

               
 Methodologies
• The following are the different methodologies for the different
techniques
• The values of voltages & currents will be measured
• Power is then calculated ( Power = Voltage * Current )
• The values will be measured in different atmospheric condition so that it
can be judged that the MPPT is giving its best performance.
• Values will be taken for different MPPT techniques.
• Simulation reports and graphs will be generated using SIMULINK
simulation and PSPICE simulation software
• Suggestion for the best techniques for a particular atmospheric condition
Timeline
SL. NO. PERIOD (2010-2011) WORK TO BE PEFORMED

1 1ST OCTOBER – 15TH OCTOBER SYNOPSIS PREPARATION

2 15TH OCTOBER – 30TH OCTOBER LITERATURE REVIEW

3 1ST NOVEMBER – 15TH NOVEMBER --------DO-------

4 15TH NOVEMBER – 30TH NOVEMBER --------DO-------

5 1ST DECEMBER - 15TH DECEMBER TRIAL DATA COLLECTION

6 10th JANUARY – 31ST JANUARY INDUCTION BY COMPANY

7 1ST FEBRUARY – 15TH FEBRUARY DATA COLLECTION

8 15TH FEBRUARY – 28TH FEBRUARY -----------DO--------

9 1ST MARCH – 15TH MARCH ----------DO---------

10 1ST APRIL – 31ST APRIL COMPANY TRAINING &

REPORT WRITING
Looking Ahead

• Incremental Conductance Method

• Fractional Short-Circuit Current Method

• Comparing these methods with respect

to their performances(response time,
power loss ).
Dependencies and Resources

PSPICE

MSView PC
Software
MATLAB
Project

Voltmeter, Power Analyzer ,

Ammeter Pyranometer
 Reference
• MPPT Techniques, Laboratory of Sciences in Information and Systems (LSIS),Aix-

Marseille University, Marseille,FRANCE, NAZIH MOUBAYED, ALI EL-ALI, RACHID

OUTBIB

• Thanh Phu Nguyen , University of Queensland 2001

• Trishan Esram, Currently, Mr. Esram is pursuing a Ph.D. degree from the University of

Illinois at Urbana-

• Champaign as a research assistant for Prof. Chapman.

• Patrick L. Chapman, Chapter Chair the IEEE Power Engineering Society, an associate

editor of IEEE Power Electronics Letter

• Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Vol. 8, No 2, pp. 147_153 (2005) by Joe-Air

Jiang, Tsong-Liang Huang, Ying-Tung Hsiao and Chia-Hong Chen

• Canadian Solar Buildings Conference paper Montreal, August 20-24, 2004 by C. Liu, B.

Wu and R. Cheung

• SOLARCON MPPT selection manual

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