Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic System for Traffic Light Application

Riza Muhida; Nor Hilmi Mohamad; Ari Legowo; Rudi Irawan; Winda Astuti; Riza Muhida; Nor Hilmi Mohamad; Ari Legowo; Rudi Irawan; Winda Astuti

doi:10.14203/j.mev.2013.v4.57-64

Maximum Power Point Tracking of Photovoltaic System for Traffic Light Application

Riza Muhida, Nor Hilmi Mohamad, Ari Legowo, Rudi Irawan, Winda Astuti

Abstract

Photovoltaic traffic light system is a significant application of renewable energy source. The development of the system is an alternative effort of local authority to reduce expenditure for paying fees to power supplier which the power comes from conventional energy source. Since photovoltaic (PV) modules still have relatively low conversion efficiency, an alternative control of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) method is applied to the traffic light system. MPPT is intended to catch up the maximum power at daytime in order to charge the battery at the maximum rate in which the power from the battery is intended to be used at night time or cloudy day. MPPT is actually a DC-DC converter that can step up or down voltage in order to achieve the maximum power using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) control. From experiment, we obtained the voltage of operation using MPPT is at 16.454 V, this value has error of 2.6%, if we compared with maximum power point voltage of PV module that is 16.9 V. Based on this result it can be said that this MPPT control works successfully to deliver the power from PV module to battery maximally.

10.14203/j.mev.2013.v4.57-64

Keywords

photovoltaic, maximum power point tracking, traffic light, voltage converter, battery charging

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