Design, Modeling and Simulation DC DC Converters with PV Cell Fed Switched Reluctance Motor for Agriculture Field

Sairaju Rakesh, ,B.Sanker Ram

doi:10.35940/ijeat.a1688.1010120

Abstract

Latest advances in the field of renewable energy sources and the power electronic circuits have seen their applicability in many fields. One such application is water pumping system in the field of agriculture. The use of PV cells fed by SRM(Switched Reluctance Motor) has created research interest as they have high conversion efficiency at low voltage and medium voltage levels respectively. To combine their features together DC/DC converters are incorporated. This paper gives the design, modeling and simulation DC/DC converters with PV cell fed switched reluctance motor for agriculture field. This is specifically applied for the water pumping motor. The simulation is done MATLAB- Simulink Environment. Various DC/DC converter are simulated and their effect with respect to various parameters such as number of switching devices, smooth and reliable operation is studied.

Highlights

With the increased emissions, decreasing fossil fuels lot of research is happening on the renewable energy sources
The main benefit of using solar energy to power the water pumps in agriculture is that water requirements as well as irrigation process coincides with the seasonal increase of the solar energy
It is seen from the table that the zeta converter takes the least number i.e. only 1 switching diode and 1 active diode compared to all the other converters

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Introduction

With the increased emissions, decreasing fossil fuels lot of research is happening on the renewable energy sources. The PV systems are the electricity generators which take application in almost all fields at all the remote locations. One such application is water pumping system for the agriculture [1]. The main benefit of using solar energy to power the water pumps in agriculture is that water requirements as well as irrigation process coincides with the seasonal increase of the solar energy. The volume of water that can be pumped by the solar powered system at any given interval of time depends on the the availability of the solar energy in that period. The flow rate of the water pump is decide the solar energy availability as well as the size of the PV array used to convert the available solar energy to electrical energy[2].

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