Maximum power point tracking based on differential conductance

Maximum power point (MPP) tracking technique based an optimized

adaptive differential conductance technique was developed in this paper. The performance

of the algorithm developed in this paper was evaluated at solar irradiance

of 1,000, 800 and 600 W/m2 and at temperature of 298, 328 and 358 K. From the

simulation results, it was observed that the impedance of the panel decreases as

the irradiance increases while the impedance of the load is not affected by the irradiance.

This technique was also validated with conventional incremental conductance

(INC) technique. From the validation result, the resultant conductance of the

optimized adaptive differential conductance technique at MPP is 0.0030 mho higher

than resultant conductance at ideal condition while conventional technique has the

resultant conductance of 0.0418 mho lower than the resultant conductance at ideal

condition. From the analysis, the technique has a relative improvement of 6.0558%

compared to the conventional INC technique. The simulation was done using Matrix

Laboratory (MATLAB).