*Research Scholar & Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, Jansons Institute of Technology, Karumathampatty, Coimbatore, India
**Professor, Department of EEE, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, India
Online published on 1 June, 2016.
This Research paper proposes a novel converter for autonomous photovoltaic pumping system without battery Practice. Many types of DC/DC converters are being used, among which Boost Converter is the most companionable one with the PV conversion system in matter of power efficiency. The proposed research system consists of a Two Inductor Boost Converter along with Incremental Conductance Maximum Power Point Tracking algorithm for an autonomous photovoltaic water pumping system. The converter topology is chosen for its simplicity, very small number of components, high efficiency, low cost and easy transformer flux balance. This system achieves low cost, high efficiency and stoutness. The proposed research system is modeled and simulated in MATLAB/Simulink Environment.
Incremental conductance, Maximum power point tracking, Two-inductor boost converter, Solar array, Photovoltaic modules
