Realisation of incremental conductance the MPPT algorithm for a solar photovoltaic system

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the modelling, simulation and hardware implementation of the incremental conductance (INC) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm. The extraction of maximum power from the solar photovoltaic system was made by integrating the PV module with a DC–DC converter and utilising the MPPT algorithm. In this work, the INC MPPT algorithm is practically implemented on an Arduino Uno board to track the maximum power point (MPP) and also simulated in Matlab/Simulink under the same environmental conditions. The performance of the INC algorithm was also compared with the conventional Perturb and Observe (P&O) MPPT algorithm. The experimental and simulation results are provided for both MPPT techniques. Matlab/Simulink was used for simulation studies.

KEYWORDS:

• Solar photovoltaic
• maximum power point tracking
• incremental conductance
• perturb & observe
• Arduino microcontroller
• Matlab/Simulink

Acknowledgements

The authors are thankful to the Department of Electrical Engineering, Zakir Husain College of Engineering & Technology, Aligarh Muslim University (A.M.U.) for providing the necessary facilities to carry out this work.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Afshan Ilyas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7836-2808