Integrated photovoltaic-battery converter design for dc power system

Author

Lu, Dylan Dah-Chuan ; Zhao, Wei ; Agelidis, Vassilios G.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2009

fDate

27-30 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Advanced photovoltaic power systems require a bidirectional power converter functioning as a battery charger and a voltage regulator to maintain state-of-charge of the battery and regulate the load voltage respectively. This paper presents a photovoltaic power system which performs maximum power point tracking, battery charging and regulation of the load voltage with an integrated converters configuration. No bidirectional converter is needed. The proposed converter can be used in dc power system or dc microgrid. Experimental results are reported to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Keywords

battery chargers; maximum power point trackers; photovoltaic power systems; power convertors; power grids; battery charger; bidirectional power converter; dc microgrid; dc power system; integrated photovoltaic-battery converter; maximum power point tracking; photovoltaic power systems; voltage regulator; Batteries; Bidirectional control; DC-DC power converters; Inverters; Photovoltaic systems; Power system analysis computing; Power system simulation; Power systems; Solar power generation; Voltage; Battery; dc/dc converter; photovoltaic; power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference, 2009. AUPEC 2009. Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Adelaide, SA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5153-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-86396-718-4

Type

conf

Filename

5356585