Abstract
Submodule mismatch has become the major cause of losses in the photovoltaic (PV) power generation system, which has been an important factor restricting the development of PV technology. Differential power processing (DPP) architecture is increasingly employed in PV distributed MPPT (DMPPT) due to its low processed power. In order to improve the PV utilization efficiency, minimize the power loss and reduce the system cost, a novel scheme based on DPP is introduced in this article. The proposed DPP converter is composed of multiple buck-boost choppers, and a multidimensional perturb and observe (MPO) algorithm is proposed to achieve true DMPPT through correcting the voltage of each submodule to its voltage at the maximum power point by using a single current sensor. A prototype with multiple buck-boost choppers for 36 V/200 W PV module is designed and built to verify the operating principle and evaluate the performance of the proposed DPP converter and DMPPT strategy, and the experimental results show that the prototype is low-cost and effectively improves system efficiency.
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