DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHARGE CONTROLLER FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM WITH MPPT ALGORITHMS

Abstract

iii ABSTRACT Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is becoming more popular because of number of advantages. These advantages include zero greenhouse emission, low maintenance cost, least limitations with regard to site installation. However, the conversion efficiency of PV technology is very low about 15-18%. Also, the power generated from PV system is varying with meteorological parameters like solar irradiance, temperature etc. It is very important to analyse the performance of Solar Photovoltaic system under different meteorological conditions and also track the maximum power point (MPP) using MPPT technique. By considering the aforesaid statements a performance analysis of perturb and observe (P&O), Incremental Conductance (I&C) come out and presented in this research work. The obtained result from their analysis are also compared.