A bunch of factors including the limited fossil resources and rising of fossil fuel price have been causes moving to create the new structure that is based on providing energy security, and protect the environment. One of the alternatives is the fuel cell (FC). Maximum power point tracker has an important role to increase the efficiency of the FC systems. One of the difficulties in maximum powe...

in this paper, an intelligent control strategy based on combination of the “flatness based control technique” and the “perturbation and observation (p&o;) mppt algorithm” is developed and investigated to control a hybrid electric energy source (heps). this ehps is composed of a fuel cell system (fc) and a solar panel (sp), as the main source and a supercapacitor bank (sc), as the auxiliary sour...

Maximum power point tracking controller is essential to obtain the maximum power from a solar array in the photovoltaic systems as the PV power module varies with the temperature and solar irradiation. In this paper, several methods for the MPPT of the PV systems are discussed and it can to be used as a Helpful reference for the upcoming MPPT user in the PV applications.

This paper explains Design, simulation and implementation of Perturb and Observe (P&O) Fuzzy Based control of DC-DC Converter in Photo-Voltaic (PV) System. A standalone PV system connected to a Boost converter with a resistive load and Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is modeled and implemented. A battery is used for storage purpose. The simulations were done in MATLAB/SIMULINK Environment. ...

A Hybrid algorithm of maximum-power-point-tracking (MPPT) controller for a photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion system is presented. Using the slope of power versus voltage of a PV array, the proposed MPPT controller allows the conversion system to track the maximum power point very rapidly. As opposed to conventional two-stage designs, a single-stage configuration is implemented, resulting in s...

Power from solar panel is affected by insolation and temperature variation which can be minimized by MPPT system. In this paper to extract maximum power from solar system, perturb and observe technique of MPPT is used. A PV system require proper battery charge controller to balance the power flow from PV system to battery and load such that photovoltaic power is utilized effectively. In this bu...

In order to enhance the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) speed of solar generators, offline calculated maximum power line (MPL) is often used as a feed-forward signal added to the output of MPPT controller. MPL is nonlinear static electrical characteristic of renewable energy generators connecting all the maximum power points for given temperature. In this letter, electrical side MPL is deri...

The non conventional energy sources overcomes the drawback of Conventional energy sources, drawbacks like depletion, increasing cost, global warming etc. Among the all non conventional sources , solar energy is widely used as it can directly convert solar energy solar energy into electrical form with solar photovoltaic cell (PV Cell). Energy produced by PV cell is varying with partially shading...

Due to the nonlinear P-I characteristic of fuel cells, it is very important to implement a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller for practical applications. Based on analyzing the output characteristics of fuel cell power system, this paper presents extremum seeking sliding mode control method for MPPT of fuel cell power system under variable temperature and water content conditions. T...

This paper focuses on the implementation of a three-phase four wire current-controlled Voltage Source Inverter (CC-VSI) as both PV energy extraction and power quality improvement. For power quality improvement, the CC-VSI works as a grid current-controller shunt active power filter. Then, the PV array supported by a Look-up Table type of a MPPT controller is coupled to the DC bus of the CC-VSI....