The DC house for low power households - DC-DC converter analysis

Author

Venter, Christo ; Raji, Atanda ; Adonis, Marco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Cape Peninsula Univ. of Technol., Cape Town, South Africa

fYear

2015

fDate

March 31 2015-April 1 2015

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

146

Abstract

Renewable energy generation is achieving ever deeper penetration into the power grid because of its advantages. Renewable power sources are becoming more and more popular and renewable energies have many advantages including reduced environmental impact. This paper presents a design framework to implement a DC powered house. Different aspects of this solution will be described. A possible standard voltage for a DC house will be determined as well as the amount of power used by a small household. As the prices on renewable energy generators such as photovoltaic panels´ decreases, it makes DC power systems more attractive. The paper also covers the design and simulation of a DC-DC converter used in the solution to provide DC power to a household. Load tests are simulated and show the effects of load changes on the stability of the DC network.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; photovoltaic power systems; power grids; DC network stability; DC power systems; DC powered house; DC-DC converter analysis; load tests; low power households; photovoltaic panels; power grid; reduced environmental impact; renewable energy generation; renewable power sources; Economics; Heating; Standards; Switches; DC-DC power converters; distributed power generation; hybrid power systems; load management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Domestic Use of Energy (DUE), 2015 International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DUE.2015.7102974

Filename

7102974