• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.153-159
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• 2012

In photovoltaic system, the characteristic of photovoltaic module such as open circuit voltage and short circuit current will be changed because of cell temperature and solar radiation. Therefore, a boost converter of the PV system connects between the output of photovoltaic system and DC link capacitor of grid connected inverter as controlling duty ratio for maximum power point tracking(MPPT). This paper shows the dynamic characteristic of the boost converter by comparing single-loop control algorithm and two-loop control algorithm using both analog and digital control. The proposed both compensation method has been verified with computer simulation and simulation results obtained demonstrate the validity of the proposed control schemes.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.189-193
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• 2015

This paper provides the design techniques of a successive approximation register (SAR) type 12b analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) control in a photovoltaic system. Both a top-plate sampling technique and a $V_{CM}$-based switching technique are applied to the 12b capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC). With these techniques, we can implement a 12b SAR ADC with a 10b capacitor array digital-to-analog converter (DAC). To enhance the accuracy of the ADC, a single-to-differential converted DAC is exploited with the dual sampling technique during top-plate sampling. Simulation results show that the proposed ADC can achieve a signal-to-noise plus distortion ratio (SNDR) of 70.8dB, a spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) of 83.3dB and an effective number of bits (ENOB) of 11.5b with bipolar CMOS LDMOD (BCDMOS) $0.35{\mu}m$ technology. Total power consumption is 115uW under a supply voltage of 3.3V at a sampling frequency of 1.25MHz. And the figure of merit (FoM) is 32.68fJ/conversion-step.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.520-523
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 MPPT(Maximum Power Point Tracking) 기능을 갖는 열에너지 하베스팅을 위한 DC-DC컨버터를 설계하였다. 설계된 회로는 열전소자로부터 수확된 낮은 전압을 변환하여 부하에 승압된 전압을 공급한다. 시동회로는 제어기가 동작할 수 있는 VDD를 공급하고 결과적으로 Main 부스트 변환기의 파워스위치를 ON/OFF하게 되며, 스위칭 동작을 통해 부하에 승압된 전압을 공급한다. Bulk-driven 비교기를 이용하여 낮은 전압에서도 비교동작을 가능하게 하였고, 이를 이용하여 시스템 효율을 높이고, 전압안정화 동작을 하게 된다. 최대 효율은 76%이다. 제안된 회로는 0.35um CMOS 공정으로 설계되었으며, 모의실험을 통하여 동작을 검증하였다. 설계된 회로의 칩 면적은 $933um{\times}769um$이다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.881-893
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• 2019

This paper proposes a practical sliding-mode controller design for shaping the impedances of cascaded boost-converter power decoupling circuits for reducing the second order harmonic ripple in photovoltaic (PV) current. The cascaded double-boost converter, when used as power decoupling circuit, has some advantages in terms of a high step-up voltage-ratio, a small number of switches and a better efficiency when compared to conventional topologies. From these features, it can be seen that this topology is suitable for residential (PV) rooftop systems. However, a robust controller design capable of rejecting double frequency inverter ripple from passing to the (PV) source is a challenge. The design constraints are related to the principle of the impedance-shaping technique to maximize the output impedance of the input-side boost converter, to block the double frequency PV current ripple component, and to prevent it from passing to the source without degrading the system dynamic responses. The design has a small recovery time in the presence of transients with a low overshoot or undershoot. Moreover, the proposed controller ensures that the ripple component swings freely within a voltage-gap between the (PV) and the DC-link voltages by the small capacitance of the auxiliary DC-link for electrolytic-capacitor elimination. The second boost controls the main DC-link voltage tightly within a satisfactory ripple range. The inverter controller performs maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for the input voltage source using ripple correlation control (RCC). The robustness of the proposed control was verified by varying system parameters under different load conditions. Finally, the proposed controller was verified by simulation and experimental results.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.1037-1047
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• 2017

The Differential Power Processing (DPP) converter is a promising multi-module photovoltaic inverter architecture recently proposed for photovoltaic systems. In this paper, a DPP converter architecture, in which each PV-panel has its own DPP converter in shunt, performs distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) control. It maintains a high energy conversion efficiency, even under partial shading conditions. The system architecture only deals with the power differences among the PV panels, which reduces the power capacity of the converters. Therefore, the DPP systems can easily overcome the conventional disadvantages of PCS such as centralized, string, and module integrated converter (MIC) topologies. Among the various types of the DPP systems, the feed-forward method has been selected for both its voltage balancing and power transfer to a modified H-bridge inverter that needs charge balancing of the input capacitors. The modified H-bridge multi-level inverter had some advantages such as a low part count and cost competitiveness when compared to conventional multi-level inverters. Therefore, it is frequently used in photovoltaic (PV) power conditioning system (PCS). However, its simplified switching network draws input current asymmetrically. Therefore, input capacitors in series suffer from a problem due to a charge imbalance. This paper validates the operating principle and feasibility of the proposed topology through the simulation and experimental results. They show that the input-capacitor voltages maintain the voltage balance with the PV MPPT control operating with a 140-W hardware prototype.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전력기술부문
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• pp.190-193
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• 2001

In order to verify the efficiency or availability and stability of photovoltaic(PV) generation systems, huge system apparatuses are needed, in general, in which an actual size of solar panel, a type of converter system and some amount of load facilities should be installed in a particular location. It is also hardly possible to compare a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) control scheme with others under the same weather and load conditions in an actual PV generation system. The only and a possible way to bring above-mentioned problem to be solved is to realize a transient simulation scheme for PV generation systems using real weather conditions such as insolation and surface temperature of solar cell. The authors, in this paper, introduces a novel simulation method, which is based on a real-time digital simulator (RTDS), for PV generation systems under the real weather conditions. Firstly, VI characteristic equation of a solar cell is developed as an empirical formula and reconstructed in the RTDS system, then the real data of weather conditions are interfaced to the analogue inputs of the RTDS. The outcomes of the simulation demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed simulation scheme in this paper. The results shows that the cost effective verifying for the efficiency or availability and stability of PV generation systems and the comparison research of various control schemes like MPPT under the same real weather conditions are possible.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.228-229
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• 2007

현재까지 계통연계형 태양광 시스템의 최대전력추종(MPPT)방법에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그 중 대표적인 최대 전력 추종 방법에는 일정전압 제어방식, P&O(Perturbation and Observation)제어방식, IncCond(Incremental Condutance) 제어 방식이 있다. 이 중 일정전압 제어방식은 일사량, 온도 등을 고려해 특정한 값의 태양전지 출력전압을 고정시키도록 하여, 최대전력점 근처에서 동작하도록 제어하는 방식이다. 이 방식은 태양전지 입력 전류 센서가 필요없고, 저일사량 조건에서 다른 기법에 비해 우수한 효율 특성을 나타내고 있다. 하지만, 온도 및 일사 조건에 따라 변하는 최대전력전압지점을 추종하지 못해 다양한 조건에서 최대전력추종효율이 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 다양한 일사 조건 및 온도 조건에 대응하는 최대 출력전압을 실시간으로 산출하여, 이를 통해 최대전력추종제어를 하는 방법을 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 기법은 다양한 일사조건 및 온도변화에 대해 능동적으로 대응하여 우수한 추종효율 특성을 나타내고, 또한 입력 DC 전류 센서를 제거하고, 내부 연산이 간단함으로써 경제적인 면에서 유리하다. 본 논문에서 제안된 최대전력 추종기법의 타당성을 검증하기 위해서 PSIM 시뮬레이션을 통해 그 타당성을 검증 하였다.