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Photovoltaic pumping system optimization with improved DTC for irrigation: a comparative study

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Since the cost of a photovoltaic (PV) module has dropped considerably in recent years, employing photovoltaic as an alternative power source for water pumping is regarded one of the viable possibilities. This study presents a solar PV pumping system over the sun to provide irrigation for an orchard in the northwest of Algeria, and the proposed system is a sliding mode direct torque (SM-DTC) control-based stand-alone solar PV energized water pumping system with induction motor. The basis of this technology is to replace the hysteresis regulators in the standard DTC and the traditional proportional–integral speed controller with sliding mode controllers to alleviate the disadvantages of standard DTC. Furthermore, this study includes the usage of fuzzy logic controller to track the maximum power under any circumstance. The water pumping system is also designed to irrigate an orchard of 10 ha, planted with apple trees. Based on the comparative results of this study, the DTC combined with SMC enhances the photovoltaic pumping system (PVPS) in terms of dynamic performance and robustness and makes it possible to meet the orchard water needs. To develop a full simulation model of the proposed PVPS configuration under real data climate conditions, MATLAB and associated Simulink software is employed.

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  1. Yahia Miloud, Mohamed Mostefai and Fatima Belgacem contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Electrotechnical Engineering Laboratory, University Dr Moulay Tahar, BP 138, ENNASR, 20000, Saida, Algeria

    Aicha Belgacem & Fatima Belgacem

  2. Geometry, Analysis, Control and Applications Laboratory, University Dr Moulay Tahar, BP 138, ENNASR, 20000, Saida, Algeria

    Yahia Miloud & Mohamed Mostefai

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All authors contributed equally to this work and this is as follow: Aicha Belgacem is the owner of the idea for this work, she wrote the paper after having its simulation results. Pr. Yahia Miloud has corrected the paper on the evaluation of results and on the language side. Dr. Mohamed Mostefai has helped in the simulation and gave advices on system sizing. Fatima Belgacem helped with the sizing, system simulation and in writing the paper.

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Table 6 PV DIMEL parameters
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Belgacem, A., Miloud, Y., Mostefai, M. et al. Photovoltaic pumping system optimization with improved DTC for irrigation: a comparative study. Int. J. Dynam. Control 11, 2600–2613 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-023-01133-5

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