Title :
Reconfigurable solar photovoltaic battery charger using a switch matrix
Author :
Zhao, Ye ; Yang, Ling ; Lehman, Brad
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA, USA
fDate :
Sept. 30 2012-Oct. 4 2012
Abstract :
This paper presents a reconfigurable solar photovoltaic (PV) battery charger. A traditional PV charger either utilizes a DC/DC converter between the PV array and load, or it connects the battery directly to the PV array without any power conversion. Different from these approaches, our proposed PV charger avoids conventional DC/DC converters by using a reconfigurable switch matrix. This switch matrix can configure the PV array automatically into optimal series-parallel configuration to charge batteries with different voltage ratings.
Keywords :
DC-DC power convertors; battery chargers; solar cells; switching convertors; DC-DC converter; PV array; PV battery charger; optimal series-parallel configuration; reconfigurable solar photovoltaic battery charger; reconfigurable switch matrix; Arrays; Batteries; DC-DC power converters; Fabrics; Switches; System-on-a-chip; Universal Serial Bus;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), 2012 IEEE 34th International
Conference_Location :
Scottsdale, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0999-8
Electronic_ISBN :
2158-5210
DOI :
10.1109/INTLEC.2012.6374465
