A New Modified MPPT Controller for Indirect Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive with Variable Irradiance and Variable Temperature

Abstract

Due to the increase in power demand and the earth natural resources are depleting day by day, renewable energy sources have become an important alternate and solar energy is mainly used. In order to track the radiations from the sun in an efficient manner the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller is used. But the existed MPPT controllers were developed based upon the ideal characteristics of constant irradiation and temperature. To overcome the above problem a practical data is considered for designing of MPPT controller which is based upon variable irradiance under various temperatures. The output obtained from the MPPT is given to the boost converter with an inverter to find the performance of an indirect vector controlled induction motor drive under different operating conditions. For inverter control, a SVM algorithm in which the calculation of switching times proportional to the instantaneous values of the reference phase voltage. It eliminates the calculation of sector and angle information. The torque ripple and the performance of induction motor drive with ideal and practical data MPPT controllers are compared under different operating conditions. An experimental validation is carried out and the comparison is made with the simulation results.

Keywords: maximum power point tracking, variable irradiance, indirect vector controlled, total harmonic distortions, space vector modulation, induction motor drive and torque ripple.