Battery Management System for Solar Energy Applications

Prof. W. G. Hurley, Margaret Glavin, Dr. Qianfan Zhang, Sara Armstong, Dr. Paul Chan

Generally in photovoltaic applications the storage battery has the highest life time cost in the system; it has a profound affect on the reliability and performance of the system. Currently the most commonly used storage technology for photovoltaic applications is the lead acid battery. The advantages of the lead acid battery are its low cost and great availability. The problem is that photovoltaic panels are not an ideal source for charging batteries. With the lead acid battery the charging regime may have a significant impact on its service life. The battery management system aims to optimize the use of the battery, to prolong the life of the battery, making the overall system more reliable and cost effective. Maximum power point tracking will also be incorporated into the battery management system to move the solar array operating voltage close to the maximum power point under varying atmospheric conditions in order to draw the maximum power from the array.

Start date: 20th of September 2005. This project has been completed.

Project collaborators: Enterprise Ireland

 

Project Publications

Journal
M.E. Glavin, W.G. Hurley, “Optimisation of a Photovoltaic Battery Ultracapacitor Hybrid Energy Storage System”, Solar Energy, vol. 86, no. 10, pp. 3009–3020, October 2012.

Conference
M.E. Glavin, P.K.W. Chan, W.G. Hurley, “Optimization of Autonomous Hybrid Energy Storage System for Photovoltaic Applications”, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, San Jose, September 2009.
M.E. Glavin, P.K.W. Chan, S. Armstrong, W.G. Hurley, “A Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Supercapacitor Battery Hybrid Energy Storage System”, 13th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, EPE-PEMC, Poznan, Poland, pp. 1711–1718, September 2008.
S. Armstrong, M.E. Glavin, W.G. Hurley, “Comparison of Battery Charging Algorithms for Stand Alone Photovoltaic Systems”  38th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference, PESC’08, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 1469–1475, June 2008.
M. Glavin, W.G. Hurley, "Ultracapacitor/ Battery Hybrid for Solar Energy Storage", Proceeding of the 42nd International Universities Power Engineering Conference, UPEC2007, University of Brighton, UK, September 2007.
M. Glavin, W.G. Hurley, "Battery Management System for Solar Energy Applications", Proceedings of the 41st International University Power Engineering Conference, UPEC2006, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, September 2006.

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