Design and development of configurable solar converter system

Abstract

The solar converter for power conversion system is a device designed to perform different operations using a simple circuit. The Converter performs both DC/AC and DC/DC operation. This topology is used to supply power to a system during all times of a day. The Photo-voltaic array is interfaced with the battery and hence used to provide power for the entire day. This work demonstrates the solar converter for power conversion system having PID Controller and 7 Level Inverter. The Total Harmonic Distortion is less when solar converter for power conversion having PI Controller is compared with solar converter for power conversion having PID Controller. Further, the Total Harmonic Distortion reduces for the solar converter for power conversion having PID Controller and 7-level inverter system. In this work, the battery unit is designed using the TTL driver circuit and the inverter is designed using MOSFET switches and IR2110 driver circuit. Also, the gating signals are effectively generated using Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microcontroller.