Abstract

The increasing solar photovoltaic (PV) and EV charging applications create power quality issues at utility grid. It requires efficient control thus, in this paper, single-phase grid-tied PV powered electric vehicle battery (EVB) system is proposed with reliable control and power management. The presented work offers efficient EVB charging either from PV power or utility to handle PV impacts on the utility. During peak power demand, the proposed power management offers less burden on utility and allows EVB to feed increased load along with changing PV power. In work, a recent high-gain DC-DC boost converter topology is utilized thereby making smaller household PV arrays in grid-tied mode with DC-AC voltage source converter (VSC). Moreover, a new improved variable step-parameter ‘µ’ least mean square (IvµLMS) adaptive control is proposed and compared for efficient control of VSC with various nonlinear load and PV irradiance variations. The IvµLMS offers good convergence, less burden on controller and improved dynamic responses under various conditions. As per IEEE-519 standard, the PV power is fetched to grid at unity power factor (UPF) with low total harmonic distortion (THD). The proposed grid tied EVB system, and its controls are modelled in MATLAB/Simulink environment and test results are analyzed and validated on a laboratory prototype.

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