Analysis of Changes in Temperature and Irradiance to DC-DC Buck Converter Based on IP Controller for Solar Power Plant Application

Abstract

This paper presents a mathematical model of photovoltaic with buck converter to analyze the voltage and current as a result of radiation and temperature changes as the input signal. Photovoltaic simulator models created using the C programming integrated with Matlab Simulink. The IP controller is used to control the current of a buck converter with the reference current from the dynamic model of photovoltaic. The control signal from the IP controller is used for generating a PWM signal, which is used to drive the IGBT gate of the buck converter. Input of irradiance and temperature are given to the photovoltaic simulator. Moreover, the current and voltage of the buck converter are used as a feedback to the photovoltaic simulator. This experiment is run through the system in real time and the simulation results show that changing in radiation has more significant effect on the output voltage of a solar power system compared to changing in temperature.