Matlab /Simulink Based-analysis of Photovoltaic Array Fed Multilevel Boost Converter

Abstract

The increasing private sectors are focusing employment of eco friendly renewable/green power technologies like PV Cells, Fuel Cells, Wind turbine to meet the growing power demand. This paper presents the analysis and operation of PV system using Multilevel DC to DC Boost Converter Topology .The DC to DC Multilevel Boost converter is based on one inductor, one switch, 2N-1diodes and 2N-1 capacitors, for an Nx converters, it is a boost converter able to control and maintain the same voltage in all the N output levels and able to control the input current. The proposed model and their performance are evaluated for varying loads in MATLAB/Simulink environment.

Keywords – PV array , Multilevel boost converter ,Matlab, simulink