{"title":"A Low Power Photo-Voltaic Battery Charger with Improved Reliability and Energy Recovery to Reduce Shading Effect","authors":"Maziar Rastmanesh, E. El-Masry, K. El-Sankary","doi":"10.1109/TPEC54980.2022.9750762","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Micro-solar energy harvesting systems can operate efficiently at relatively high threshold luminance, and they exhibit 0% efficiency below threshold luminance or at strong shading. The objective of this paper is to introduce a new topology that improves the charge efficiency, functionality, sensitivity, and reliability of the Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar chargers during strong overcast while employing minimum hardware. The proposed topology responds to a wide range of solar irradiation and functions as an efficient charger with an improved battery charging current for slow charge topology at strong shading. It employs a boost converter with a second inductor and exploits the non-linearity of the PV characteristics of a solar cell to reduce power loss. To verify the proposed topology, a prototype, 1.4V/18mA charger, was built and successfully tested with 87.3% heavily sourced efficiency retained.","PeriodicalId":185211,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","volume":"187 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEC54980.2022.9750762","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Micro-solar energy harvesting systems can operate efficiently at relatively high threshold luminance, and they exhibit 0% efficiency below threshold luminance or at strong shading. The objective of this paper is to introduce a new topology that improves the charge efficiency, functionality, sensitivity, and reliability of the Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar chargers during strong overcast while employing minimum hardware. The proposed topology responds to a wide range of solar irradiation and functions as an efficient charger with an improved battery charging current for slow charge topology at strong shading. It employs a boost converter with a second inductor and exploits the non-linearity of the PV characteristics of a solar cell to reduce power loss. To verify the proposed topology, a prototype, 1.4V/18mA charger, was built and successfully tested with 87.3% heavily sourced efficiency retained.