A hybrid technique used in grid integration of photovoltaic system for maximum power point tracking with multilevel inverter

Abstract

A new hybrid technique for grid integration of solar photovoltaic system using modified incremental conductance maximum power point tracking algorithm with multi-output converter and multilevel inverter is proposed in the paper. The proposed hybrid technique is the joint execution of improved dolphin echolocation algorithm and gradient boosting decision trees and this way the proposed technique is named as IDE-GBDT technique. The novelty of the proposed work is the dolphin echolocation algorithm, which is integrated by the crossover and the mutation function so it is named as IDE. In the proposed technique, the multi-output converter is the combination of boost converter and switched capacitor function to generate different self-balanced output voltages. The utilization of multilevel inverter in the proposed system provides better quality of output voltage and current waveform thereby reducing the size of passive filters. Also, eliminates the requirement of bulky transformers for grid integration. Multicarrier unipolar phase disposition pulse width modulation technique is employed for triggering the switches of the multilevel inverter. The maximum power point tracking algorithm uses the estimated active power output of the generator as its input and generates command speed so that maximum power is transferred to the dc link. This control system also incorporates a loss minimization approach to minimize the losses in the generator and hence to improve the efficiency of the photovoltaic system. Finally, the performance of the proposed maximum power point tracking control of wind and photovoltaic power generation schemes is executed in Matrix Laboratory/Simulink working platform and the execution is assessed with the existing techniques. The proposed technique is compared with the existing techniques and the observed total harmonic distortion of the proposed technique in all the cases is 0.67%, 0.51%, 0.58%, 0.63%, 0.92%, and 1.03% and the total harmonic distortion is found to be very less compared with existing techniques.