2016 International Conference on Computation of Power,
Energy Information and Communication (ICCPEIC)
A Solar Based SEPIC Converter For Street Lighting Application G.Arunkumar, D.Elangovan
Jagadish Kumar Patra,
Cynthia James, Saumya vats
Assistant Professor
TaniaH.M.
UG Student
School Of Electrical
PG Student
School Of Electrical
Engineering
School Of Electrical
Engineering
VIT University
Engineering
VIT University
Veilore, India
VIT University
Vellore, India
[email protected]
Vellore, India
Abstract�There has been an increase in demand for clean and sustainable energy sources, and solar energy is currently
paper will focus on using solar energy for a large electricity requirement such as street lamps.
considered to be one of the most valuable and abundant yet low-maintenance
clean
sustainable
energy
source.
Photovoltaic solar energy systems require DC-DC converter in order to regulate and control the varying output of the solar panel. The single ended Primary inductance Converter topology performs the operation of a buck-boost converter but with no voltage polarity reversal. This paper suggests a converter design that will ensure high performance and cost efficiency while powering up an LED street lamp.
The
converter has been simulated in PSIM and the hardware was done by choosing the design values appropriately.A voltage
While dealing with application of renewable energy sources, the electrical equipment designs require converters. The energy is harnessed from the source, and then it goes through the conversion stage, which is required to deal with the fluctuating and lower output voltage characteristics of renewable energy. While many converter topologies are available today, the SEPIC topology is integrated into the design of solar powered street lamps due to specific advantages. [1-4]
input value of 24volts and output value of 72 volts are assigned in correspondence with the streetlamp ratings. This design
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Keywords-solar; SEPIC; Buck-Boost; LED Lamp.
I.
INTRODUCTION
The world's excessive dependence on fossil fuels and other non-renewable energy sources have lead to their depletion. Hence, today we look up to renewable energy sources, which are reliable and plentiful and will be easy to harness once the right kind of technology and infrastructure is made available. Solar energy, among them, is the most readily available one all around the world. According to trends seen in USA and Japan, in the next few years, it is predicted that millions of households all around the world will be using solar energy. In India, the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency and the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources are formulating a program to have solar energy in more than a million households within the next few years. In such a country as this with plentiful sunshine all throughout the year, especially in regions such as Thar, it is possible to harness solar energy for a wide range of applications. This
There are five main DC-DC converter topologies available today. Buck converter can reduce input voltage, Boost can increase voltage, while Buck-Boost, Cuk and SEPIC converters can both reduce and increase voltage. However, the Single-Ended Primary-Inductor Converter (SEPIC) is the only DC/DC converter that can essentially function like a Buck-Boost converter but with the added advantage of producing a non-inverted output. It can be argued that Buck-Boost converters are cheaper as they only require a single inductor and capacitor, but these converters also suffer from high input current ripple. [58]Current ripple can create harmonics, which in many cases will necessitate the use of large capacitors or an LC filter. This makes buck-boost inefficient and costly. Cuk converter can compensate for the shortcomings of Buck-boost converters, and simultaneously can also produce non-inverted output voltage. However, his converter causes large amounts of electrical stress on its components, resulting in device failure or overheating. SEPIC converters are able to solve all these problems. Furthermore, in SEPIC, the coupling capacitor energy from input to output enables the device to handle short circuits in a more controlled manner when compared to
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the traditional converter topologies. The SEPIC design uses minimal active components and 'clamped' switching waveforms that produce reduced noise from high frequency switching operations, hence dealing with issues causes my electromagnetic interferences. II.
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Fig.I. System Block Diagram. The overall setup is shown in Fig.l wherein, the input is supplied by the Solar simulator which feeds the SEPIC converter .The converter supplied the lighting loads at nv by appropriate power conversion (Boost operation).The switching pulse for the converter is generated by dSPACE 1104 which can be interfaced to MATLAB R2013. III.
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CIRCUIT DIAGRAM AND MODES OF OPERATION
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During the Discontinuous mode of conduction the current through the inductor Ll is able to fall to zero. Fig.2. SEPIC Topology. Circuit diagram of the proposed converter is shown in Fig 2.There are two modes of conduction, being the continuous mode and the discontinuous mode.
IV.
MATHEMATICAL DESIGN
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