Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 3

Modified Standalone Single Stage Three Port Converter with Domain Distribution Control for Renewable Energy Applications

*Department of EEE, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. cvpsrit@gmail.com

**Department of EEE, S.N.S College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. vp.snsce@gmail.com

Online published on 23 March, 2017.

Abstract

Energy is an essential key to worldwide development to achieve high standard of living. The main source of energy in the past and present in industrial nations has been fossil energy and in the forth coming centuries this is depleting at a very fast rate. Hence the countries across the world have to depend on renewable energy. The use of renewable energy like solar, wind has to be made effective so that maximum power is extracted from them. Hence these systems require power electronic circuits that cater to the needs of the consumers in a more efficient manner. A modified standalone single stage three port converter with a rechargeable battery for energy conservation that facilitate the bidirectional power flow between the load and the battery is described in this paper. The energy storage system stores the excess power generated from the PV in battery and discharges to theload when the demand is surplus.

Keywords

Battery, Bidirectional Power flow, Maximum power point, MTPC, solar irradiation