Comprehensive Review on Solar, Wind and Hybrid Wind-PV Water Pumping Systems-An Electrical Engineering Perspective

Abstract

In India, the demand for water is continuously increasing due to the growing population. Approximately 16.5% of all country’s electricity used to pump this water is from fossil fuels leading to increased pump Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. With the recent advancement in power electronics and drives, renewables like solar photovoltaic and wind energy are becoming readily available for water pumping applications resulting in the reduction of GHG emissions. Recently, research towards AC motor based Water Pumping Systems (WPS) has received a great emphasis owing to its numerous merits. Further, considering the tremendous acceptance of renewable sources, especially solar and wind, this paper provides a detailed review of single-stage and multi-stage WPS consisting of renewable source powered AC motors. The critical review is performed based on the following figure of merits, including the type of motor, power electronics interface and associated control strategies. Also, to add to the reliability of solar PV WPS, hybrid Wind-PV WPS will be discussed in detail. Readers will be presented with the state-of-the-art technology and research directions in Renewable Energy-based WPS (REWPS) to improve the overall system efficiency and hence reduce the payback period.

Model-Free Predictive Current Control of Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives for Pump Applications

“…Observing Equation (2) and considering the discrete nature of the control system, the current variation at each control period T c can be expressed by the following new adaptive model:…”

“…Electric pumps are certainly a very sensitive application where these issues can determine the availability of essential goods, such as water, for much of the human population. At present, induction motors are very popular in pump applications due to their mechanical robustness, their capability to work directly from the grid-though at constant speed-and their wide availability on the market [2]. However, recently established efficiency standards require more efficient electric motors, and the synchronous reluctance motor (SynRM) will likely replace the induction motor, especially in variable speed applications [3].…”

“…Interesting proposals mixing photovoltaic panels and thermal generators were considered in [6]. Solar pumps are also another promising application area for the SynRM [2,[7][8][9].…”

A Total-Cross-Tied-Based Dynamic Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration for Water Pumping System

“…A wide range of research has been done on PV water pumping systems [2]. It includes improving photovoltaic arrays efficiency, electric motor and pumps interaction against the irradiance variation, designing the motors for specific water pumping applications, and various maximum power point techniques (MPPT) [3]. Further, research also involves cost reduction, productivity gain, and life expansion of PV water pumping systems.…”

Minimum Harmonic Distortion Losses and Power Quality Improvement of Grid Integration Photovoltaic-Wind Based Smart Grid Utilizing MOPSO

“…Synchronization, system stability, and Power quality issues have all been exacerbated by the incorporation of large level solar and wind farms into a transmission structure [1]. Because of the fluctuating wind ow/sunlight and fluctuations in the energy load, these RE facilities were linked to the transmission structure, posing significant harmonic distortion and voltage quality issues [2], [3].…”