SOLAR POWER FED ADJUSTUABLE SPEED DRIVE SYSTEM

B.Madan lal, U.Raja Kiran, Sushma Gupta, Savita Nema

Abstract: The conventional energy resources are widely used in power generation but they are environmentally unfriendly. The use of renewable energy resources is an alternative solution for overcoming the global warming. Solar energy has significant potential among all the renewable energy resources. As photo voltaic array has low configurable efficiency, by tracking the maximum power point by means of boost converter we can get maximum DC power. In this paper, Maximum power point Tracking (MPPT) is used by boost converter and its output is fed to the inverter for adjustable speed drive (ASD) system. The gate pulses of inverter are generated by the variable voltage and frequency control of induction motor. The developed model is simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK.

Keywords: Adjustable speed drive, MPPT, Renewable energy, V /f control.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0304144