Improved Performance of an Asynchronous Motor Drive with a New Modified Incremental Conductance based MPPT Controller

Abstract

This paper describes the improved performance of an asynchronous motor drive with a new modified Incremental conductance-based MPPT controller. In the last few decades, renewable energy sources are playing a dominant role in electricity generation as non-renewable energy sources are becoming extinguish and are the major cause of global warming. Photovoltaic (PV) energy is the most important energy resource since it is clean, pollution-free, and inexhaustible. Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is used in photovoltaic systems to maximize the photovoltaic array output power with variable irradiances and variable temperature. The space vector modulation technique is used to reduce ripple content and fluctuation with improving efficiency. The algorithm used in MPPT is the Incremental Conductance method for a solar PV system to determine maximum output power.