Control of a Photovoltaic Pumping System Using the ABC Algorithm in EL Jadida Climate

In this paper, we propose a photovoltaic pumping system in the meteorological conditions of the city of EL JADIDA located in Morocco. Our system is composed of a photovoltaic generator, a step-up converter (DC/DC) controlled by Maximum power point tracking (MPPT), an inverter (DC/AC), a motor-pump group (asynchronous motor, centrifugal pump). The amount of energy produced by PV systems depends on environmental circumstances such as temperature and solar irradiance, the objective of our system is to ensure operation at a maximum power of the photovoltaic system for various climatic conditions in the city of EL JADIDA, for this the Artificial Bee method Colony (ABC) was implemented and compared to two other MPPT Perturbation and Observation (P&O) and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) method, to evaluate the best and most accurate controller for different weather conditions. The results show that the use of the ABC method is effective and has an excellent performance in terms of response time (3.5 H), and can increase the stability of the photovoltaic pumping system, and thanks to this algorithm, we can increase the water flow performance by 82.35% compared to the P&O method and by 50% compared to the FLC method, and we can have pumping for very low insolation d values (25.55 W/m 2 ) for the ABC method. The simulations of the different parts of the system are developed in the Matlab/Simulink environment.