Design and performance analysis of a PV solar powered water pumping system

Abstract

This work aims to study and design a nonlinear gain scheduling control technique for a solar photovoltaic ( PV) water pumping system. The efficiency and performance of the system will be fully investigated via a simulation study; which will be designed with regards to real constraints in a remote area of the Hail region in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This work investigates a sunlight tracking system used to direct a photovoltaic module. The thoroughly examined system consists of a PV generator, a buck converter and a DC motor pump. For this purpose, we will develop a control strategy that enables us to find and track the ``Maximum Power Point Tracking,'' so that maximum power is continuously generated. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by IASE. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).