Investigation of Electrical Configuration Topologies for Enhancing the Performance of Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping System

Abstract

The numerous solar energies provide humans with clean, environmentally friendly, and abundant energy resources. Electricity shortages and high diesel prices have an impact on rural water irrigation systems and drinking water supplies. Solar energy for water pumping could be an alternative to standard electric and diesel pumping systems. The rising importance of solar photovoltaic water pumping systems (SPVWPS) as a feasible power source in rural, inaccessible, and unconnected areas drives the study. These locations, often in poor nations like India, lack conventional power. Solar energy is converted into electrical energy via photovoltaic (PV) technology, which is then used to power a DC or AC submersible or surface water pump. PV module configurations are crucial in improving a PV system’s performance. Many researchers have studied the solar water pumping design on series parallel combination and acquired the best system efficiency, but the other configurations, Total Cross Tied (TCT) and Bridge Link (BL) have never been employed in a solar water pumping system. This research aims to investigate the experimental comparison of different PV configurations for better system efficiency on different operating parameters. These PV array layouts were considered in a uniform situation. The result shows that power increases with increase in radiation and the flow rate provided by (6Sx2P) configuration is 18,956 l/day of water and calculated the best average pump efficiency.

Keywords:

• PV water pumping system
• DC submersible pump
• TCT
• pumping head
• array configuration
• topologies

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Rajkumar Chadge

Rajkumar Chadge is working as Assistant Professor at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur since 2008. He has completed his PhD, M Tech and B.E. from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His area of interest is in Design and industrial engineering. He has published 35 research publications in SCI and Scopus indexed journals and attended 16 international conferences. Also, he was the organizing chair of two international conferences.

Jayant Giri

Jayant Giri is working as Associate Professor and HoD at Mechanical engineering department, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur since 2000. He has completed his PhD, M Tech and B.E. from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His area of interest is in Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, CNC and Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Optimization. He has published 45 research publications in SCI and Scopus indexed journals and attended 20 international conferences. Also he was the organizing chair of two international conferences. Also, he is the guest editor of referred journals.

Mohammad Amir

Mohammad Amir serving as a senior researcher in Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. He received the B.Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Integral University, Lucknow, India, in 2015, and the M.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering in specialization of Power Electronics and Drives from the Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India, in 2018, He completed his Ph.D. from Advanced Power Electronics Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia Central University, Delhi, India, in 2023. Dr. Amir was Research Assistant in Advanced Power Electronics Research Lab, JMI, Delhi, worked under the SPARC project MHRD in collaboration of Aalborg University, Denmark from 2021-23. Dr. Amir is actively IEEE young professional of Asia pacific. Dr. Amir was Research and Academic Coordinator, IEEE Delhi Section. His current research interest includes renewable energy, energy management, electric vehicle, energy storage, smart grid, intelligent and optimization.

Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh

Farhad Ilahi Bakhsh received B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering and M. Tech. degree in Power Systems & Drives from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Then he pursued Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2017. Currently he is serving as Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Srinagar, India. He is founder and Counselor of IEEE Student Branch, NIT Srinagar. He has won “10 for 10 Typhoon HIL Award” from Switzerland, Europe. He has more than 60 published papers in Scopus or Web of Science based International reputed Journals and Conferences. His area of interests includes Performance Analysis and new applications of Variable Frequency Transformer, Application of Power Electronics & Drives in Renewable Energy Systems (Solar & Wind), Multilevel Converters, Alternate Energy Vehicles (Electric/Hybrid) and Multi-phase Drives.

Neeraj Sunheriya

Neeraj Sunheriya is working as Assistant Professor at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur since 2014. He has completed his is PhD from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India, M Tech from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra and B.E. from SATI, Govt. Engineering College, Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh. His area of interest is in Solar Thermal Applications. He has published more than 20 research publications in SCI and Scopus indexed journals and attended 8 international conferences. Also, he was the organizing secretary of two international conferences.

Chetan Mahatme

Chetan Mahatme is PhD research scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur under the supervision of Dr Jayant Giri. He is also working as Assistant Professor at Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur since 2014. He has completed his M Tech and B.E. from Yeshwantrao Chavan College of engineering, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His area of interest is in machine learning and biomedical applications. He has published 12 research publications in SCI and Scopus indexed journals and attended 8 international conferences. Also, he was the organizing secretary of two international conferences.

T. Sathish

T. Sathish specialized in Mechanical Engineering. With excellence of his research as Indian Researcher, he consecutively secured appreciable World Rank, India Rank and Subject Rank (World) in Top 2% Scientists list published by Stanford University for the Years 2020 and 2021. He published many technical books and Patents in the field of Mechanical Engineering. He produced and supervises the PhD scholars and participated in many invited lectures and won many more awards. He is acting as Guest Editor and reviewers for many highly refereed Scopus and web of science indexed journals. He is maintaining 220+ research publications in Scopus database. His crucial role and responsibility as an Associate Dean – Patent are to promote the students and faculty innovation, innovative ideas and facilitate to obtain appropriate recognition through IPR activities.