Analysis and design of a solar charge controller using cuk converter

Author

Riawan, D.C. ; Nayar, C.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a scheme for transferring power from the photovoltaic (PV) modules to a battery using a solar charge controller based on a Cuk dc/dc converter. The converter is configured in parallel power transfer mode (PPT) to achieve higher efficiency. PWM control with maximum power point tracking algorithm is used to extract maximum power from the PV modules. Mathematical modelling and field test results using multi crystalline photovoltaic modules have been carried out to verify the effectiveness of the device.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; PWM power convertors; mathematical analysis; photovoltaic power systems; Cuk dc-dc converter; PWM control; mathematical modelling; maximum power point tracking algorithm; multicrystalline photovoltaic modules; parallel power transfer; parallel power transfer configuration; photovoltaic modules; solar charge controller; Batteries; Circuits; Load flow; Photovoltaic systems; Pulse width modulation; Solar power generation; Switching converters; Temperature; Transfer functions; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference, 2007. AUPEC 2007. Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-0-646-49488-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-646-49499-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUPEC.2007.4548115

Filename

4548115