Testing and performance analysis of charge controllers for Solar Home System

Author

Dautta, Manik ; Chowdhury, Syed Mohammad Sifat Morshed ; Bipu, Md Rashed Hassan ; Nain, Md Zulkar ; Khan, Shahidul Islam

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

313

Lastpage

316

Abstract

Charge controller is the heart of a Solar Home System (SHS) which controls the charging and discharging of battery from photovoltaic (PV) module. This paper analyzes test results of fifteen charge controllers available in Bangladesh according to the specification of Infrastructure Development Company Limited (IDCOL). The different parameters are battery high voltage disconnect (HVD), low voltage disconnect (LVD)/ reconnect, short circuit protection etc. It is found that eight charge controllers meet the technical specifications of IDCOL. There is also a study of different features of the charge controllers. Finally a brief discussion on further improvement of charge controller is presented.

Keywords

building integrated photovoltaics; interrupters; overvoltage protection; secondary cells; Bangladesh; HVD; IDCOL; Infrastructure Development Company Limited; LVD; battery high voltage disconnect; charge controllers; low voltage disconnect; performance analysis; short circuit protection; solar home system; Ammeters; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Standards; Testing; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; Charge controllers; IDCOL; Solar Photovoltaic; Solar home system; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4167-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2014.7026923

Filename

7026923