Author(s)

Saleh Elkelani Babaa

System Engineering Department, Military Technological College (Inpartnership with University of Portsmouth, UK), Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.

The efficiency of photovoltaic power generation is affected by the changeable weather conditions. This paper improves the efficiency of a standalone PV system over a wider range of operating conditions by employing novel switch adaptive control to an interleaved boost converter. With various loads, simulation and experimental results show that the interleaved boost converter with novel switch adaptive control offers better performance and higher conversion efficiency under changeable weather conditions.

Photovoltaic (PV) System, DC-DC Power Conversion, Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), Efficiency

Babaa, S. (2017) Novel Switch Adaptive Control to Improve the Efficiency of Boost Converter in Photovoltaic Systems. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 5, 1-14. doi: 10.4236/jpee.2017.57001.