PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SOLAR PV, WIND AND FUEL CELL USING FIREFLY MPPT
Keywords:
Grid, Fuel cell, Solar cell, Wind Energy, BUCK BOOST converter, Firefly MPPT, Three Phase Inverter.Abstract
The main objective of this paper is performance analysis of Solar PV, Wind and Fuel cell using Firefly
MPPT technique. Among all the Renewable Energy sources, wind energy, fuel cell and solar cell plays a key
role in the generation of electric power. Besides, the contributions of wind power, solar energy and fuel cell are
properly integrated to ensure & sustain the continuity of the supply to load on the demand at every minute. The
output of the solar cell, fuel cell and Wind systems are connected to BUCK-BOOST converter. In order to
extract the maximum power from Fuel cell, solar and wind energy systems a new technique, called Maximum
power point tracking. In this paper, Firefly Maximum Power Point Tracking method is used for controlling the
BUCK-BOOST converter. Performance analysis of Firefly MPPT gives better performance compared to Fuzzy
Logic Control, P & O and Incremental Conductance methods. The output of the Buck-Boost converter
connected to grid by using three phase inverters. Using the MATLAB / Simulink platform, simulation of the
proposed system are studies, carried out and the results are presented.
