TY - GEN
T1 - Performance Comparison of Flexible Power Point Tracking Algorithms on Normal and Degraded Photovolatic Modules
AU - Kumaresan, Anusha
AU - Tafti, Hossein Dehghani
AU - Farivar, Glen G.
AU - Yadav Gorla, Naga Brahmendra
AU - Beniwal, Neha
AU - Pou, Josep
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Singapore under "Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) for Energy Grid 2.0" project. This work was also supported by the Office of Naval Research U.S. under DUNS Code: 595886219.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Power grids with increased penetration of photo-voltaic (PV) systems face difficulties such as power quality issues, poor system inertia and voltage fluctuations. Hence, the development of flexible power point tracking (FPPT) algorithms, which controls the PV power output rather than the conventional method of extracting the maximum power, was motivated by the necessity to address these issues. Many FPPT algorithms have been presented in the literature for operation during uniform irradiance condition of the PV modules. Each algorithm has distinct benefits and drawbacks and under a particular circumstances, one algorithm may be preferable to another. This study examines the performance of various FPPT algorithms operating with normal and degraded PV modules. Simulation tests in MATLAB/Simulink and experimental results are taken to study their performances. A detailed comparison based on the algorithm's resilience, convergence rate, complexity, and the ease in obtaining the initial data is then presented.
AB - Power grids with increased penetration of photo-voltaic (PV) systems face difficulties such as power quality issues, poor system inertia and voltage fluctuations. Hence, the development of flexible power point tracking (FPPT) algorithms, which controls the PV power output rather than the conventional method of extracting the maximum power, was motivated by the necessity to address these issues. Many FPPT algorithms have been presented in the literature for operation during uniform irradiance condition of the PV modules. Each algorithm has distinct benefits and drawbacks and under a particular circumstances, one algorithm may be preferable to another. This study examines the performance of various FPPT algorithms operating with normal and degraded PV modules. Simulation tests in MATLAB/Simulink and experimental results are taken to study their performances. A detailed comparison based on the algorithm's resilience, convergence rate, complexity, and the ease in obtaining the initial data is then presented.
KW - Active power control
KW - binary search algorithm
KW - newton's algorithm
KW - perturb and observe
KW - photovoltaic (PV) systems
KW - secant algorithm
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U2 - 10.1109/SPEC55080.2022.10058459
DO - 10.1109/SPEC55080.2022.10058459
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85150415861
T3 - 2022 IEEE 7th Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2022
BT - 2022 IEEE 7th Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2022
PB - IEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
CY - USA
T2 - 7th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference, SPEC 2022
Y2 - 5 December 2022 through 8 December 2022
ER -