• DocumentCode
    3578569
  • Title

    Cut-Off solar charge controller as an alternative towards system efficiency optimization

  • Author

    Sabry, Ahmad H. ; Almassri, Ahmed M. ; Wan Hasan, Wan Zuha B. ; Mohd Radzi, Mohd Amran ; Bin Ab Kader, Zainal Abidin ; Bin Shafie, Suhaidi

  • Author_Institution
    Control & Autom. Eng., Univ. Putra Malaysia UPM, Serdang, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    236
  • Lastpage
    240
  • Abstract
    Based on the concept of optimizing the efficiency of the automated solar system in residential buildings application, this paper proposed a High efficiency solar Cut-Off charge controller as an alternative to the main solar charge controller in most conventional buildings solar system, the idea is to design an electronic circuit with low losses as a compared with the conventional charge controller to be a part of the integrated and automated building solar system, the design has an algorithm based on some environment parameters like sun Irradiance and weather temperature, this algorithm seems to be inversely calculated because its start from the value of full charge battery voltage. A Simulink Matlab simulator is attempted in the simulation phase of this research. The main difference between the method used in the proposed Cut-Off controller and other technique used in the past is that PV array output power is used directly through a bypass MOSFET to charge the battery bank when the voltage of the battery bank at lower level that its maximum while switching on another path when the batteries reaches its full charge value through another MOSFET to transfer this surplus power to what is called as an Auxiliary load ,fans or auxiliary battery used for system ventilation or solar tracking to reduce the ambient temperature for the system components, so adding more improvements on system performance, this would reduce the complexity of the system on one hand and produce a competitive efficiency, low cost and can be easily modified on the other hand.
  • Keywords
    MOSFET; building management systems; computational complexity; optimisation; passive solar buildings; solar cell arrays; Auxiliary load; PV array; ambient temperature reduction; bypass MOSFET; cut-off solar charge controller; electronic circuit; residential building application; solar battery bank charging; solar tracking; system efficiency optimization; Arrays; Batteries; Mathematical model; Maximum power point trackers; Photovoltaic cells; Switches; Temperature measurement; Battery charge controller; MPPT; PV solar analysis; power electronics; solar cell parameters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Power and Energy (PECon), 2014 IEEE International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-7296-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PECON.2014.7062448
  • Filename
    7062448