Review of Solar PV Powered Water Pumping System Using Induction Motor Drive

This paper presents the review of the Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) array fed water pumping system using an Induction Motor Drive (IMD). The penetration of renewable energy powered water pumping systems in industrial and domestic applications receiving wide attention nowadays. The introduction of a three-phase induction motor brings an improved solution to the commercial water pumping system. SPV array fed water pumping system using IMD mainly consist two stages; first stage extracts the maximum power from the solar Photovoltaic (PV) array by restraining the duty ratio of the DC-DC boost converter. In the second stage, a controller is employed to control the switching pulses of the Voltage Source Inverter (VSI). Different control methods are available for regulating IMD like Scalar (V/f control), Direct Torque Control (DTC), Vector control, and DTC use Space Vector PWM (SVPWM) control. (paper)