Performance analysis of photovoltaic powered dc motor - Propeller system.

Kolhe, Mohan; Atlam, Ozcan; Muneer, Tariq; Adhikari, Sushovit Kant

Abstract

The application of autonomous directly photovoltaic (PV) powered electro-mechanical has received increasing attention for different applications (e.g. PV water pumping, PV powered cooling of arid climate greenhouses, solar vehicles etc). The PV array output is a nonlinear and time-dependent power supply that varies with solar intensity and cell temperature, so the performance characteristics of the directly PV-powered DC motor - propeller system are very different than when powered by a constant DC voltage. The focus of this work is to do performance analysis of directly PV-powered DC motor - propeller system. Through performance evaluation, it has been observed that power transfer matching, with respect to the maximum power points of the PV module and the operating points of the DC PM motor - propeller, mainly depend on the load parameters, DC motor parameters. The matching can be improved by selecting appropriate parameters of the DC motor and propeller load. In designing a DC motor (for directly PV powered system), it is very important to consider the PV array's locus of maximum operating points for a particular propeller load application. This analysis will be useful in developing a directly PV powered aerodynamic systems.

Citation

Kolhe, M., Atlam, O., Muneer, T., & Adhikari, S. K. (2015). Performance analysis of photovoltaic powered dc motor - Propeller system. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES) (1-4). https://doi.org/10.1109/SPICES.2015.7091497

• Conference Name: IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems
• Start Date: Feb 19, 2015
• End Date: Feb 21, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 26, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 1-4
• Book Title: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy Systems (SPICES)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SPICES.2015.7091497
• Keywords: DC motor; propeller; PV electro-mechanical system;Photovoltaic System
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9579
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SPICES.2015.7091497