DocumentCode
2419218
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
fYear
2012
fDate
Sept. 30 2012-Oct. 4 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
7
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC), 2012 IEEE 34th International
Conference_Location
Scottsdale, AZ
ISSN
2158-5210
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-0999-8
Electronic_ISBN
2158-5210
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INTLEC.2012.6374465
Filename
6374465
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