Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System
Integration of renewable energy sources to the grid-connected system has influenced scholarly research in recent times to evolve solutions for power electronic conversion. Particularly, solar photovoltaic (SPV), being a resource available throughout the year, demands needful research to meet the dem...
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| author | R. Uthirasamy V. Kumar Chinnaiyan S. Vishnukumar Alagar Karthick V. Mohanavel Umashankar Subramaniam M. Muhibbullah |
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| description | Integration of renewable energy sources to the grid-connected system has influenced scholarly research in recent times to evolve solutions for power electronic conversion. Particularly, solar photovoltaic (SPV), being a resource available throughout the year, demands needful research to meet the demand for industrial applications. To facilitate SPV, multilevel inverters (MLIs) and cascaded H-bridge inverters (CHBIs) are proposed in the literature to meet the power requirement. However, these circuits suffer from efficiency loss, economic aspects of DC sources usage, and switching losses. Hence, in this research, a new power converter topology is projected to improve the overall efficiency of SPV systems. Further, a three-level approach involving (i) SPV Panel-Temperature Reduction (SPV-PTR) Setup, (ii) Boost Multilevel Direct Current Link Converter (BMLDCLC), and (iii) use of effective snubber modules (SM) are effectively handled to promote the industry readiness of the proposed system. From a detailed system investigation, it is seen that the proposed arrangement has minimized the power loss to ensure better quality in output. Furthermore, the software-based results and hardware setup of the planned comprehensive converter have shown promising results in terms of (i) reduced voltage stress, (ii) reduced total harmonic distortion (THD) without filter component, and (iii) reduced power loss. It is observed that the experimental setup has reported a 12.9% of excess heat removal, 5% decrease in harmonics, and 33% switch reduction than the existing MLI schemes. In addition, the proposed setup is suggested to apply for industrial purposes indicate its efficacy to be a solution in real time. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d6efdeb708af4da58b0d117c863c08272025-02-03T01:25:22ZengWileyInternational Journal of Photoenergy1687-529X2022-01-01202210.1155/2022/1648474Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic SystemR. Uthirasamy0V. Kumar Chinnaiyan1S. Vishnukumar2Alagar Karthick3V. Mohanavel4Umashankar Subramaniam5M. Muhibbullah6Renewable Energy LabRenewable Energy LabDepartment of Electronics and Communication Engineering Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Saguthala R&D Institute of Science and TechnologyRenewable Energy LabCentre for Materials Engineering and Regenerative MedicineDepartment of Communications and NetworksDepartment of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringIntegration of renewable energy sources to the grid-connected system has influenced scholarly research in recent times to evolve solutions for power electronic conversion. Particularly, solar photovoltaic (SPV), being a resource available throughout the year, demands needful research to meet the demand for industrial applications. To facilitate SPV, multilevel inverters (MLIs) and cascaded H-bridge inverters (CHBIs) are proposed in the literature to meet the power requirement. However, these circuits suffer from efficiency loss, economic aspects of DC sources usage, and switching losses. Hence, in this research, a new power converter topology is projected to improve the overall efficiency of SPV systems. Further, a three-level approach involving (i) SPV Panel-Temperature Reduction (SPV-PTR) Setup, (ii) Boost Multilevel Direct Current Link Converter (BMLDCLC), and (iii) use of effective snubber modules (SM) are effectively handled to promote the industry readiness of the proposed system. From a detailed system investigation, it is seen that the proposed arrangement has minimized the power loss to ensure better quality in output. Furthermore, the software-based results and hardware setup of the planned comprehensive converter have shown promising results in terms of (i) reduced voltage stress, (ii) reduced total harmonic distortion (THD) without filter component, and (iii) reduced power loss. It is observed that the experimental setup has reported a 12.9% of excess heat removal, 5% decrease in harmonics, and 33% switch reduction than the existing MLI schemes. In addition, the proposed setup is suggested to apply for industrial purposes indicate its efficacy to be a solution in real time.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1648474 |
| spellingShingle | R. Uthirasamy V. Kumar Chinnaiyan S. Vishnukumar Alagar Karthick V. Mohanavel Umashankar Subramaniam M. Muhibbullah Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System International Journal of Photoenergy |
| title | Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System |
| title_full | Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System |
| title_fullStr | Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System |
| title_short | Design of Boosted Multilevel DC-DC Converter for Solar Photovoltaic System |
| title_sort | design of boosted multilevel dc dc converter for solar photovoltaic system |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1648474 |
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