Abstract
The present study developed a high-performance charge/discharge controller for stand-alone solar LED lighting system by incorporating an nMPPO system design, a PWM battery charge control, and a PWM battery discharge control to directly drive the LED. The MPPT controller can then be removed from the stand-alone solar system and the charged capacity of the battery increases 9.7%. For LED driven by PWM current directly from battery, a reliability test for the light decay of LED lamps was performed continuously for 13,200 h. It has shown that the light decay of PWM-driven LED is the same as that of constant-current driven LED. The switching energy loss of the MOSFET in the PWM battery discharge control is less than 1%. Three solar-powered LED lighting systems (18 W, 100 W and 150 W LED) were designed and built. The long-term outdoor field test results have shown that the system performance is satisfactory with the control system developed in the present study. The loss of load probability for the 18 W solar LED system is 14.1% in winter and zero in summer. For the 100 W solar LED system, the loss of load probability is 3.6% in spring. © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1669-1675 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Energy Conversion and Management |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-C1-014-12
Acknowledgements: This publication is based on the work supported in part by Award No. KUK-C1-014-12, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Project No. 97-D0137-1 made by Energy Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.