Design and Simulation of MPPT Control for Solar Powered AC Autonomous LED Lighting Applications in MATLAB Simulink Environment

Abstract

As an AC LED light applications have become a commonplace item of light industry, it has a wide range of usage in garden lighting, cove lighting, office lighting and retail applications. The paper brings out the utilization of Boost converter along with Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) technique for the control of Photovoltaic power. This proposed system which includes Boost converter, a single phase full bridge inverter with Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) technique. The main concept of this converter includes designing of boost converter that provides an output voltage of 350V DC and single phase SPWM provides 350V, pure sine wave output (230V RMS) applicable to AC autonomous LED Lighting system. In order to bring out a transformer free inverter, the designed boost converter is simulated in the MATLAB Simulink software and the results are shown with low THD as per IEEE standard, with acceptable power factor and higher efficiency.