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Design and Simulation of 100 MW Photovoltaic Power

Plant Using Matlab Simulink
Vaishnawi Dighore1, Prof. R.M.Bhombe2, Prof. A.S.Welankiwar3
Department of Electrical Engineering
Guru Nanak Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Corresponding author: Vaishnawi Dighore

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Date of Submission: 02-09-2020 Date of Acceptance: 19-09-2020
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ABSTRACT: The renewable energy of Solar up for Solar PV power generation with DC-DC
system is most widely used in developed countries. Boost converter is not always possible to validate
In this solar PV system project a PV system is with the performance.
grid connected. The aim of this project is to design Then By using Software application for
a complete distributed energy resource system and simulatingthe model which helps to analyse the
to increase the efficiency of grid. The main performance of PV system and a common circuit
objective of this project is to save fossil fuel and based model which could be used for validating
use of green energy in large amount. The PV any commercial PV module will be more helpful.
module which will be controlled and optimized by Simulation of mathematical model for Photovoltaic
maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm. (PV) module and DC-DC boost converter along
The DC-DC Boost converter with a three phase with VSC converter is presented in this project. I-V
grid tie inverter will be used to increase the output characteristics and P-V characteristics of PV
voltage and to convert it to AC. In this project IC module under different temperature and irradiation
method is used for control methodology for the level can be obtained using the model. Simulation
operating the PV at the MPPT point by controlling of DC-DC Boost converter is performed and the
to switching the boost converter and also for results are obtained from constant DC supply fed
operation of the three phase inverter and its converter and PV fed converter.
integration with grid. The parameters of this
controllers gives the best results. 1.2 Motivational Aspect and Practical Relevance
Keywords: - Solar PV system, PV- Grid Related to Work:
connected, MATLAB Simulink. Due to increase in demand of electricity the
demand of fossil fuel is also increases which causes
I. INTRODUCTION:- increase in pollution, reduce of natural resources,
1.2 Overview of work: rising price of fossil fuels, climate change risks
Use of renewable solar energy has brought associated with power generation using fossil fuels.
significant attentions. Photovoltaic (PV) power Therefore we have tried to make such a system
generation projects are Designed and installed in which can be non-polluted, noise free, safe in
many countries. Many research works are carried operation, reliable and generated electricity from
out to observe and analyse and validate sun light which
performance of PV modules. By Practical
constraints the Implementation of experimental set II. LITERATURE SURVEY
The author in [1] redesign a 10MW PV succeeding in extracting the maximum power from
power plant. The simulation of PV power system the PV panels.
implementation made easier the testing and With reference to paper[2], the author extend a PV
observation of its stability and efficiency. The PV grid connected system which gives maximum
generation system behaves well in different output power and maximum efficiency at different
conditions of solar radiance and temperature of PV irradiance conditions.
panels. By using MPPT algorithm the stability and
This paper shows that the mathematical PWM based inverter and AC single phase grid. The
develop modelling of PV cell, boost converter, maximum power point tracking algorithm P&O is

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used, which gives maximum efficiency of the grid In First step the light energy will be
connected PV system. PWM based inverter with converted into electrical energy by means of solar
filter inductance is designed which gives sinusoidal panels. This energy in DC voltage form.This DC
output voltage. The grid voltage and frequency is voltage is enter into DC-DC converter. A boost
synchronized by using PLL techniques. The sun converter (step-up voltage converter) is a DC-to-
irradiance are increase so increase the PV panel DC power converter that steps up voltage (while
output power and also increase the PQ. PV energy stepping down current) from its input (supply) to
is large than load demand, the excess energy is will its output (load). The output voltage of the boost
exported to the utility. converter depends on the duty cycle of the control
According to reference [3] the author Mr. switch. So, the output voltage can be varied by
S. Sheik Mohammed and Dr. D. Devaraj, A PV varying the ON time of the switch. Thus, for the
module is developed using commonly used blocks duty cycle
in the form of masked subsystem block. I-V and P- „D‟ the average output voltage can calculated using
V characteristics outputs are generated for MSX 60 Vo 1
=
Vin (1−D)
PV module under different irradiation and different
temperature levels and the model is simulated for A Maximum Power Point Tracker is an
GEPVp-200-M Moduleunder various conditions as electronic DC to DCconverter that optimizes the
presented in the data sheet. The results take from match between the solar array (PV panels),and the
the simulation shows excellent matching with the utility grid. Itconvert a higher voltage DCoutput
characteristics graphs, which provided in the data from solar panels.The output of the DC-
sheet of the selected models. Thus, the model can DCconverter is now entersto the DC-AC converter.
be used to analyse the performance of any DC-AC converter is also known as Inverter. During
commercial PV module.[3] conversion of DC to AC power, the harmonic is
With the reference no [4] Deepak Kumar generated in the system. This harmonic is reduced
Chy. And Md. Khaliluzzaman: Improvement of by using filter in controller side. The output of the
Perturb and Observe (IP&OA)algorithm. This inverter is connected with the grid system and then
algorithm is developed for MPPT based dc-dc by filtering the harmonics the efficiency of the grid
Buck type and Boost type converter. The results is increases.
show that notwithstanding varying atmospheric
circumstances, this algorithmtrack the operating
point at maximum value
Boost type converter shows higher
efficiency as compare to Buck type converter by
implementing IP&O algorithm. The wholework is
done in hardware model with PIC-16F73A
microcontroller.
With the reference no[5] the author
Muhammad Ibrahim Munir and
TasneimAldhanhani, The aim and objective of their
project is to designed and developed a complete
distributed energy resource system (DER). The
project feature a PV module which controlled and
optimized by maximum power point tracking
(MPPT) algorithm. The system was confirmed by
the simulation results in PSIM which gave a perfect
sinusoid for the grid current. The system was also
successfully operated at the MPPT point by
applying the
P&O based MPPT algorithm.
Fig 1: Block Diagram of proposed project.
III. SYSTEM ANALYSIS
In this PV power plant project it consist of PV
array, DC-DC Boost converter, DC-AC converter,
MPPT, controller, utility Grid system.

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IV: SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION one cycle of the switching frequency. Such a model
A. Simulink Diagram does not represent harmonics, but the dynamics
resulting from control system and power system
interaction is preserved. In this model allows using
much larger time steps. Which shows result in a
faster simulation. The PV-array model contains an
algebraic loop. This algebraic loop is required to
get an iterative and accurate solution of the
PV model when large sample times are used. This
algebraic loop is easily solved by Simulink.
The “incremental conductance” MPPT algorithm is
implemented in the MPPT Control MATLAB
Function block.

The 100-MW PV array consists of 6600 strings of

50 series-connected 305.2-W modules connected in
parallel (6600*50*305.2 W= 100.7 MW).
Manufacturer specifications for one module are:
 Number of series-connected cells : 96
 Open-circuit voltage: Voc= 64.2 V
 Short-circuit current: Isc = 5.96 A
 Voltage and current at maximum power :Vmp
=54.7 V, Imp= 5.58 A
The PV array block has two inputs that
allow to varying sun irradiance (input 1 in W/m^2)
and temperature (input 2 in deg. C). The irradiance
and temperature profiles are defined by a Signal
Builder block which is connected to the PV array
Fig 2: Circuit Diagram of Proposed Project inputs.

The SolarPV array is connected to grid V:EXPERIMENTAL RESULT

system with power electronics interface which is
DC-DC boost converter, MPPT, three-phase three-
level Voltage Source Converter, and Controllers.
Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is
implemented in the boostconverter by means of a
Simulinkmodel using the 'Perturb & Observe'
technique which uses models for the DC_DC and
VSC converters. In this model the MPPT
controller is based on the IC+IR (Incremental
Conductance + Integral Regulator )technique. The
following components which used in Solar PV
system
PV array delivering a maximum of 100 MW at
1000 W/m^2 sun irradiance and 25˚C temperature.
 DC-DC boost converter (step up the Voltage).
 3-level 3-phase VSC Converter.
 100-MVA 260kV/25MV
 Three-phase coupling
transformer
 Utility grid system.
In this model the boost and VSC
converters are represented by equivalent voltage Fig 3: Output Waveform of PV Panel
sources generating the AC voltage averaged over

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can be seen that this type of MPPT controller tracks

maximum power only while irradiance stays
constant.
From t=1.0 sec to t=1.5 sec when irradiance stays
constant and equal to 250 W/m^2, duty cycle D
varies between 0.466 and 0.474. Corresponding PV
voltage and powerare V_PV= 2650V and Pmean
=24.4MW.
From t=1.5 sec to t=6.0 sec sun irradiance is
restored back to 1000 W/m^2 and then temperature
is varied between 50 deg. C. and 0 deg C. in order
to observe impact of temperature observe the PV
output power (107.5MW) at minimum temperature.

V. CONCLUSION
The Simulation of designed PV power
system by using MATLAB Simulink, Its made
possible the testing and observations of its stability
and efficiency. In this proposed model Solar
panels take sunlight irradiance and cell temperature
as input parameters. We can analyse I-V and PV
output characteristics under various conditions are
obtained. Sun power PV module can be easily
applied with other PV module parameters. By
using DC-DC boost converter the output voltage of
PV module is increased and also reduces the total
harmonic distortion by VSC controller. In this
proposed module successfully100MW power is
generated and fed to the grid and improving the
Fig 4: Output Waveform of Grid efficiency of the grid system.

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