Hill Climbing Maximum Power Point Tracking on Four Stage Switch Capacitor Based Boost Converter

In this paper, a theoretical analysis has been presented to observe the performance of the Hill Climbing (HC) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique on the Four Stage Switch Capacitor Based Boost Converter (4-SCBC). To implement the HC, a 4-SCBC is connected with a resistive load. In addition, a KC85T Solar Module has been employed to witness the operational performance of the 4-SCBC to realize a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic (PV) system, while operating near MPP, at the left of MPP (LM) or at the right of MPP (RM). In order to attain software simulation results, the MATLAB Simulink was employed. Results obtained prove to be parallel in performance with the theoretical analysis presented.

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