Charge imbalance may happen to series-connected batteries during charging or discharging due to the discrepancies among batteries. The charge imbalance will cause some batteries being over-charged or over-discharged and is harmful to the battery cycle-life. Moreover, the storage capacity of the battery bank will not be effectively utilized. This thesis brings forth first the concept of charge equalization on discharging for battery banks.
Various control strategies are implemented on a flyback converter with a multi-input transformer to provide the balance discharging function as well as output voltage regulation. Each battery of the battery bank is connected to a primary winding of the transformer via an active power switch. The batteries transfer their energy to load according to the residual energy in each battery. Meanwhile, by continually monitoring battery voltages, exhausted batteries can be disconnected to avoid being over-discharged.
A battery bank with four series-connected lead-acid batteries is used as an example to illustrate the operation of the balance discharging circuit. The complicated calculations and precise control are accomplished by a digital signal processor (DSP). The experimental results advocate the applicability of the discharging circuit and control strategies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0615104-185722 |
| Date | 15 June 2004 |
| Creators | Chou, Su-Ping |
| Contributors | Chin-Sien Moo, Jia-You Lee, Yao-Ching Hsieh, Jiann-Fuh Chen, Chih-Chiang Hua |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0615104-185722 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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