A Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for a Wind Power System Based on the Trapezoidal Rule

Jayshree Pande and Paresh Nasikkar ()
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Jayshree Pande: Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune 412115, Maharashtra, India
Paresh Nasikkar: Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune 412115, Maharashtra, India

Energies, 2023, vol. 16, issue 6, 1-18

Abstract: This work presents a new trapezoidal-rule-based variation of the perturb and observe algorithm to track the point with maximum power for a wind energy conversion system. The algorithm works in three steps. In the first step, the trapezoidal-rule-based division of the power curve into trapezoids of equal width is carried out. In the second step, areas of the adjacent trapezoids are compared to identify the trapezoid with the largest area. In the third step, the conventional perturb and observe algorithm is employed in the trapezoid having the largest area to capture the point of maximum power. The algorithm is simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK to check the efficacy in capturing the maximum power. The simulation results suggest that the proposed method performs well under fluctuating wind conditions with improved yielded power. An effort to achieve simplicity for implementation and effectively track the maximum power point is made and presented.

Keywords: maximum power point tracking algorithm; power; trapezoidal rule; wind turbine; wind energy conversion system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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