Title :
Testing and performance analysis of charge controllers for Solar Home System
Author :
Dautta, Manik ; Chowdhury, Syed Mohammad Sifat Morshed ; Bipu, Md Rashed Hassan ; Nain, Md Zulkar ; Khan, Shahidul Islam
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
Charge controller is the heart of a Solar Home System (SHS) which controls the charging and discharging of battery from photovoltaic (PV) module. This paper analyzes test results of fifteen charge controllers available in Bangladesh according to the specification of Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL). The different parameters are battery high voltage disconnect (HVD), low voltage disconnect (LVD)/ reconnect, short circuit protection etc. It is found that eight charge controllers meet the technical specifications of IDCOL. There is also a study of different features of the charge controllers. Finally a brief discussion on further improvement of charge controller is presented.
Keywords :
building integrated photovoltaics; interrupters; overvoltage protection; secondary cells; Bangladesh; HVD; IDCOL; Infrastructure Development Company Limited; LVD; battery high voltage disconnect; charge controllers; low voltage disconnect; performance analysis; short circuit protection; solar home system; Ammeters; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Standards; Testing; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; Charge controllers; IDCOL; Solar Photovoltaic; Solar home system; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dhaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4167-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICECE.2014.7026923
