A STUDY ON INCREMENTAL CONDUCTANCE ALGORITHM FOR MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS

Today, the consumption and deployment of conservative energy, & environmental pollution caused due of it is increasing with the modernization of world. To minimize the pressure on conventional energy source it’s the need to have more concerned about looking alternative sources for power generation. Solar can play important role as an alternative energy being a renewable energy source. Among the renewable resources, photovoltaic panels and wind- generators are primary contenders. The gain of Photovoltaic (PV) is that it has very small conversion efficiency, less maintenance & causes no pollution. The expenditure of solar system utilizing photovoltaic (PV) cells can be reduced by using efficient power system which is designed to extort the greatest probable power from the photovoltaic module using sun tracking and maximum peak-power point track (MPPT) technique. In sun tracking technique PV panel is oriented according to sun within a day to generate a highest possible power from it. To exploit the increase in the extraction of electricity using photovoltaic (PV) systems, implementation of maximum power point tracking method of photo-voltaic system using an incremental conductance algorithm, sun tracking technique and data logging software for monitoring the performance of solar system is presented in this work. In the photovoltaic (PV) systems, the instantaneous terminal voltage & output current are reliant on the thermal energy and solar intensity. Thus, locating peak power point is essential for accumulating as much power as possible from solar panels.

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