Author(s)

Saleh E. Babaa, Georges El Murr, Faisal Mohamed, Srilatha Pamuri

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

DC-DC boost power converters play an important role in solar power systems; they step up the input voltage of a solar array for a given set of conditions. This paper presents an overview of the variance boost converter topologies. Each boost converter is evaluated on its capability to operate efficient, size, and cost of implementation. Conventional boost converter and interleaved boost converter are widely used topologies in photovoltaic systems reported; however, they have negative sides of varied efficiency level under changed weather conditions. Therefore, this paper proposes, interleaved boost converter with novel switch adaptive control, to maximise efficiency of standalone photovoltaic system under change of solar power levels, due to illadation condition.

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

Babaa, S. , Murr, G. , Mohamed, F. and Pamuri, S. (2018) Overview of Boost Converters for Photovoltaic Systems. Journal of Power and Energy Engineering, 6, 16-31. doi: 10.4236/jpee.2018.64002.