Analysis and design of a resonant battery charger for photovoltaic systems

Author

Lamaison, Rafael M. ; Bordonau, Josep ; Esquivel, Adolfo ; Peracaula, Juan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

463

Abstract

A solar battery charger using a DC/DC resonant converter with 3 reactive elements operating over a wide load range is presented. This charger is based on a half bridge inverter structure and it can be fed by a solar panels system configured as two current sources, An experimental 100 W/250 kHz unit was built and tested in the laboratory. The operation has been verified with a rechargeable lead-acid battery of 12 V and 1.2 Ah and a HP 6030A DC current source of 200 V and 17 A controlled by a personal computer. The current source follows the characteristic curve of the solar panels

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; battery chargers; bridge circuits; lead acid batteries; photovoltaic power systems; resonant power convertors; solar cell arrays; 100 W; 12 V; 17 A; 200 V; 250 kHz; DC/DC resonant converter; PV power systems; half bridge inverter structure; load range; rechargeable lead-acid battery; resonant battery charger; solar battery charger; solar panels system; Batteries; Bridge circuits; Inverters; Photovoltaic systems; Power generation; Power supplies; Resonance; Solar power generation; Switching converters; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 1999. ISIE '99. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bled

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5662-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.1999.798656

Filename

798656