Hybrid control approach for PV/FC fed voltage source converter tied to grid

Abstract

A hybrid and adaptive control approach for solar photovoltaic system and fuel cell fed voltage source converter (VSC) is presented in this work. Further maximum power from solar photovoltaic array is extracted by using incremental conductance (INC) based maximum power point tracking approach. This hybrid approach combines I cos ϕ technique and gradient descent back propagation learning (GDBP) neural network (NN) to extract fundamental components from load current for efficient harmonics compensation and provides power quality improvement and support the three-phase AC grid by supplying power to the grid and as well as connected loads. The proposed system includes photovoltaic (PV) array, a voltage source converter (VSC), ripple filter and combination of linear and non-linear loads. The proposed control approach provides a fast response during dynamic conditions as well. Results of the proposed control technique also compared with the other available control techniques for its superiority analysis. The developed control technique is demonstrated by using MATLAB/SIMULINK platform.