A battery management system for stand alone photovoltaic energy systems

Author

Duryea, Shane ; Islam, Syed ; Lawrance, William

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2649

Abstract

This paper outlines the development of a battery management system (BMS) for stand alone photovoltaic (PV) energy systems. The BMS calculates the state of charge (SOC) of a lead acid battery to determine the capacity over time. This enables intelligent control schemes to be implemented. A fully functioning prototype was constructed that involved both hardware and software design. Several tests were performed to evaluate the operation of the BMS. The effect of measurement errors on the SOC calculation were subsequently investigated

Keywords

electric current measurement; intelligent control; lead acid batteries; measurement errors; photovoltaic power systems; sensitivity analysis; temperature measurement; voltage measurement; Pb; Pb-acid battery; battery management system; current measurement; hardware design; intelligent control; lead acid battery; measurement errors; sensitivity analysis; software design; stand alone PV energy systems; stand alone photovoltaic energy systems; state of charge; temperature measurement; testing; voltage measurement; Battery management systems; Hardware; Intelligent control; Measurement errors; Performance evaluation; Photovoltaic systems; Software design; Software prototyping; Solar power generation; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Conference, 1999. Thirty-Fourth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5589-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1999.799211

Filename

799211