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Sizing and modelling of stand-alone photovoltaic water pumping system for irrigation

Santosh Singh Raghuwanshi and Vikas Khare

Energy & Environment, 2018, vol. 29, issue 4, 473-491

Abstract: The aim of this study is to calculate the size of the stand-alone solar photovoltaic generator and water pumping system for irrigation. In addition solar photovoltaic generator connects voltage source inverter to vector controlled induction motor-pump system. Perturb and observe method is used for harvesting maximum power of photovoltaic generator. The smooth-starting of motor-pump drive is achieved through the maximum power point tracking method. The operational performance of the solar-water-pump system is kept at 60 m head and supply daily average 35,000 L/day. In this paper result is validated by the comparison fuzzy logic controller and proportional-integral controller, driven by solar-motor-pump system. The results confirmed that fuzzy logic controller based pumping system gives more accurate results as compared to proportional-integral controller based motor-pump system. The fuzzy logic controller increases the accuracy and efficiency of the solar-water-pump system.

Keywords: Fuzzy logic control; induction motor; maximum power point tracking; photovoltaic water pumping system; perturb and observe; variable frequency drives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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