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ABSTRACT
The most admired alternative to conventional energy sources is solar energy. In north-eastern regions of India, where availability of sun is unpredictable but irradiance level is high, special observation is needed to upgrade the solar collection systems. The main objective of the research work is to develop a renewable system, which can extract maximum voltage using dual axis movable surface and design a cascaded converter, which can further increase the voltage while maintaining high efficiency. The output of the smart independent self-regulating solar panel hardware model proposed in this paper is fed into a DC–DC cascaded Boost-SEPIC system for renewable-based applications. The newly created renewable system is built to move the panel so that the most voltage is extracted. The DC–DC cascaded converter receives power from the solar panel’s output. To assess the system’s effectiveness and voltage gain, a thorough circuit analysis is carried out. The converter is tested using various duty cycles. With a 50% duty ratio and 90% efficiency, the suggested converter produces a 40 V DC output from a 20 V DC input voltage from a solar panel. Results from an experimental prototype are used to verify the converter’s viability.
Abbreviations
| Nomenclature | ||
| SEPIC | = | Single Ended Primary Inductor Converter |
| D | = | Duty Ratio |
| n | = | Parameters number |
| = | Inductors | |
| = | Switches | |
| = | Diodes | |
| = | Capacitors | |
| = | Output capacitor | |
| = | Input voltage | |
| = | Output voltage | |
| BBBC | = | Boost and Buck-Boost Converter |
| BSCREA | = | Boost-SEPIC Converter |
| REA | = | Renewable Energy Application |
| RES | = | Renewable Energy Source |
| MPPT | = | Maximum Power Point Tracking |
| CCM | = | Continuous Conduction Mode |
| EMI | = | Electromagnetic Interference |
| PV | = | Photo Voltaic |
Disclosure statement
I declare that on behalf of all the participating authors there are no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. I declare that there are no following financial interests/personal relationships, which may be considered as potential competing interests
Data availability statement
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Future scope
The work can be further extended by applying more than one renewable source as the input to the cascaded BSC. The combination of dual inputs from the renewable sectors such as solar and wind energy together fed to the cascaded converter would help us to make a multi-input sustainable hybrid renewable system.