Design Of DC/DC Z-source converter for a photovoltaic system connected to DC microgrid

• Autor(a) principal: Lino Alfredo de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFC
• Texto Completo: http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16768
• topic: GeraÃÃo de energia fotovoltaica; Electrical engineering; Power electronics; Photovoltaic power generation; ENGENHARIA ELETRICA

This work proposes study and implementation of a DC/DC Z-source converter operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM); It is applied to a photovoltaic system connected to a DC microgrid; aiming to inject the electricity supplied from PV array; To this end; the PV array is connected to the input of Z-source converter; which rises from 167V to 400V and injects the output current at the DC bus; using maximum power point tracking techniques (MPPT); The prototype implemented in the laboratory was developed for 1;38 kW output power; with the possibility to be fed either by a DC current source or DC voltage source; which does not happen with traditional converters (Buck; Boost; etc); The average efficiency achieved yield of 94%; As for the electric power processing from renewable sources; two heuristic methods were tested: Perturbe and Observe (P&O) and Conductance Incremental (IC); The average efficiency of the prototype; using the P&O technique in tracking maximum power was 79;9%; while using the second technique (IC) the average efficiency was a 82;5% ;