Solar based Water-Pumping System

Abstract

This paper presents the standalone solar-based water pumping system. One of the most important application of the solar pumping system is for the supply of water in the rural areas and has no access to national grid. However, the cost of solar energy system is high compare to other energy system. Hence the improvement of the efficiency is one of the solar system can be seen as one of the way to reduce the cost. Therefore, the use of the maximum power point tracking (MPPT) will allow generation of more energy with same amount of panel. In solar fed water pumping system, the DC-DC conversion stage is usually required. but due to this, the cost and complexity will increase and reduce the efficiency. Hence this work shows the single stage conversion, which consists of PV panel, inverter, induction motor based water pump.  the simulation will perform using MATLAB SIMULINK Software