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Comparative Study of Three Methods of Maximum Power Point Tracking in Grid Connected Residential Photovoltaic Systems

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In this paper, in MATLAB/SIMULINK, using the partial short circuit method of hysteresis current control, without the need of a DC-DC converter, the grid-connected residential photovoltaic system with maximum power point tracking capability is designed and simulated and compared with disturbance and observation (P&O) and incremental conductance (INC) methods. P&O and INC use a DC-DC converter for simulation, and in the simulation of the proposed short-circuit method, the DC-DC converter is eliminated. In the proposed structure, hysteresis current control is used to regulate the inverter switch (DC-AC). In this structure, the inverter voltage change caused by the panel output power change is not important. Increasing or decreasing the slope of the inverter current will change the power. The system consists of photovoltaic arrays, inverters and nonlinear AC loads. In this work, in order to reduce the cost, the idea of canceling the DC-DC converter was proposed and the local short-circuit current method was used to track the maximum power point which has a lower cost due to its fast response and easy implementation. In the last part of the article, the effect of partial shading mode on maximum power point tracking using short-circuit current is investigated.

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    Javad Olamaei, Sonia Abrishami & Amir Hossein Merati Shirazi

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Olamaei, J., Abrishami, S. & Shirazi, A.H.M. Comparative Study of Three Methods of Maximum Power Point Tracking in Grid Connected Residential Photovoltaic Systems. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Electr Eng 46, 15–25 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40998-021-00455-4

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