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US 2026/0058591 A1Published application
Electric system control
AssigneeSchneider Toshiba Inverter Europe SAS
InventorsSaverio Catalano, Emmanuel Frappé
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Abstract
Methods for supplying a power from a photovoltaic panel to an electric motor; a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, a processor and a control circuit including instructions allowing carrying out the methods; and a variable speed drive adapted to implement the methods.
Claims15
A method for supplying a power from a photovoltaic panel to an electric motor, the photovoltaic panel, PV panel, being connected to a variable speed drive, VSD, driving the electric motor, the method comprising:
- controlling the electric motor to produce at least one voltage variation at an output voltage of the PV panel;
- monitoring a power supplied by the PV panel during a latest voltage variation of the at least one voltage variation;
- identifying a voltage having maximized the power supplied by the PV panel during the latest voltage variation of the at least one voltage variation;
- defining a target voltage such that applying a maximum power point tracking, MPPT, technique from the target voltage controls the output voltage of the PV panel to reach the identified voltage;
- controlling the electric motor to reach the target voltage at the output voltage of the PV panel;
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- starting the MPPT technique from the target voltage.
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