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SOLAR ENERGY BASED SMART ROOM USING

DOUBLE BOOST
BOOST CONVERTER
E. Maheswari
Associate Professor/EEE, Sri Sairam Institute of Technology,
Technology, Chennai.
Chennai

Dr.V.Balaji
Associate Professor/FECE, BIT, Bahirdar University, Ethiopia.

Dr.Deepa
Associate Professor/ SELECT,
S VIT University, Chennai.
Chennai

ABSTRACT
In this paper the DC to DC double boost converter designed for controlling the
electrical appliances used in smart room with solar energy as the input source. The
powerr is derived from the solar panel with the output power rating as 60W. The
voltage obtained from the solar panel is always DC voltage, it can be boosted up into
high voltage using double boost converter. This This voltage is stored in a battery for
necessary use. It is connected to an inverter to convert the dc source to alternative
current source and then it is given to the electrical appliances. These appliances were
controlled through a remote where there is no switches are required and reduces the
human efforts.
Key words : Smart room, PV cells, Double Boost Converter, Solar Energy.
Energy
Cite this Article: E.Maheswari, Dr.V.Balaji and Dr.Deepa
Dr.Deepa Solar Energy Based Smart
Room Using Double Boost Converter.
Converter International Journal of Mechanical
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1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years the dc to dc converters plays a wide range of advantages in renewable energy
applications. Multi phasing of dc-dc
dc dc converters has been known to give technical
tech and
economic benefits to low voltage high power buck regulator modules. A major advantage of
multi phasing dc-dc
dc converters is the improvement of input and output performances in the
buck converter. From this aspect, a potential use would be in renewable
renewable energy where power
quality plays an important factor [1].
The Double Boost Quadratic Converter Proposed is characterized by average output
voltage is higher than the input voltage, and the voltage on the intermediates capacitors also
greater than the input voltage [2]. For many emerging applications, a high boost factor is

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required. The basic boost topology does not provide a high boost factor. The proposed
topology provides higher boost factor and extending the control range [3].
The dc-to-dc converters used in large range of input and output voltages, with cascaded or
two stage topologies must operate at extremely low duty ratios, which limit the operation to
lower switching frequencies because of the minimum ON time of the transistor switch. This is
eliminated in a new class of single transistor PWM converters featuring voltage conversion
ratios with quadratic dependence on duty ratio [4, 5].

2. BLOCK DIAGRAM DESCRIPTION

As solar panel is used as a source, it gives DC voltage as an input. The input DC source is
then given to DC-DC Double boost converter. The double boost converter then boost up that
is approximately double the input DC voltage is get as output from double boost converter.
The output DC voltage from double boost converter is stored in the battery .The required
voltage for the load is taken from the battery at the required time with the use of inverter. The
required DC voltage is taken from the battery and it is given to the inverter. The inverter will
change the DC voltage into the AC voltage. At last the required AC voltage from the inverter
is given to the load.

SOLAR DOUBLE BOOST INVERTER LOAD

ENERGY COVERTER

BATTERY

Figure 1 Block Diagram of the project

2.1. Solar Panel

A solar panel is a set of solar photovoltaic modules electrically connected and mounted on a
supporting structure. A photovoltaic module is a packaged, connected assembly of solar cells.
The solar panel can be used as a component of a larger photovoltaic system to generate and
supply electricity in commercial and residential applications. Each module is rated by its DC
output power under standard test conditions (STC).
Depending on construction, photovoltaic modules can produce electricity from a range of
frequencies of light ,but usually cannot cover the entire solar range(specifically ,ultraviolet ,
infra red and low or diffused light).Hence much of the incidents sunlight energy is wasted by
solar modules, and they can give for higher efficiencies if illuminated with monochromatic
light. Therefore, another design concept is to split the light into different wavelength ranges
and direct the beams onto different cells tuned to those ranges .This has been projected to be
capable of raising efficiency by 50%.
Currently the best achieved sun light conversion rate (solar module efficiency) is around
21.5% in new commercial products typically lower than the efficiencies of their cells in
isolation. The most efficient mass-produced solar panel is searched by Imperial College,
London has shown that the efficiency of a solar panel can be improved by studding

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the light-receiving semiconductor surface with aluminium Nano cylinders similar to the ridges
on Lego blocks. The scattered light then travels along a longer path in the semiconductor
which meant that more photons could be absorbed and converted into current. Although these
nano cylinders were used previously in which aluminium was preceded by gold and silver, the
light scattering occurred in the near infrared region and visible light was absorbed strongly.
Aluminium was found to have absorbed ultraviolet part of the spectrum and the visible and
near infrared parts of the spectrum were found to be scattered by the aluminium surface. This,
the research argued, could bring down the cost significantly and improve the efficiency as
aluminium is more abundant and less costly than gold and silver. There search also noted that
the increase in current makes thinner film solar panels technically feasible without
"compromising power conversion efficiencies, thus reducing material consumption".
Several companies have begun embedding electronics into PV modules. This enables
performing maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for each module individually, and the
measurement of performance data for monitoring and fault detection at module level. Some of
these solutions make use of power optimizers, a DC-to-DC converter technology developed to
maximize the power harvest from solar photovoltaic systems. Such electronics can also
compensate for shading effects, wherein a shadow falling across a section of a module causes
the electrical output of one or more strings of cells in the module to fall to zero, but not
having the output of the entire module fall to zero.

2.2. Double Boost Converter

Figure 2 Circuit diagram of double boost converter

Conventionally, boost converters are used as active Power factor correctors. However, a
recent novel approach for PFC is to use dual boost converter i.e. two boost converters
connected in parallel. Where choke L1 and switch are for main PFC while L2 and C2 are for
active filtering the filtering circuit serves two purposes i.e. improves the quality of line current
and reduces the PFC total switching loss. The reduction in switching losses occurs due to
different values of switching frequency and current amplitude for the two switches. The
parallel connection of switch mode converter is a well known strategy. It involves phase
shifting of two or more boost converters connected in parallel and operating at the same
switching frequency.

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2.3. Inverter
The word ‘inverter’ in the context of power-electronics denotes a class of power conversion
(or power conditioning) circuits that operates from a dc voltage source or a dc current source
and converts it into ac voltage or current. The ‘inverter’ does reverse of what ac-to-dc
‘converter’ does (refer to ac to dc converters). Even though input to an inverter circuit is a
dc source, it is not uncommon to have this dc derived from an ac source such as utility ac
supply. Thus, for example, the primary source of input power may be utility ac voltage supply
that is ‘converted’ to dc by an ac to dc converter and then ‘inverted’ back to ac using an
inverter. Here, the final ac output may be of a different frequency and magnitude than the
input ac of the utility
The simplest dc voltage source for a VSI may be a battery bank, which may consist of
several cells in series-parallel combination. Solar photovoltaic cells can be another dc voltage
source. An ac voltage supply, after rectification into dc will also qualify as a dc voltage
source. A voltage source is called stiff, if the source voltage magnitude does not depend on
load connected to it. All voltage source inverters assume stiff voltage supply at the input.
Some examples where voltage source inverters are used are: uninterruptible power supply
(UPS) units, adjustable speed drives (ASD) for ac motors, electronic frequency changer
circuits etc. Most of us are also familiar with commercially available inverter units used in
homes and offices to power some essential ac loads in case the utility ac supply gets
interrupted. In such inverter units, battery supply is used as the input dc voltage source and
the inverter circuit converts the dc into ac voltage of desired frequency. The achievable
magnitude of ac voltage is limited by the magnitude of input (dc bus) voltage. In ordinary
household inverters the battery voltage may be just 12 volts and the inverter circuit may be
capable of supplying ac voltage of around 10 volts (rms) only. In such cases the inverter
output voltage is stepped up using a transformer to meet the load requirement of, say, 230
volts.

2.4. Battery
An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more energy. Electrolytes allow ions to
move between the electrodes and terminals, which allows current to flow out of the battery to
perform work. Batteries have much lower specific energy than common fuels such as
gasoline. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that batteries deliver their energy as
electricity, whereas using fuels in engines entails a low efficiency of conversion to work.

3. SIMULATION RESULTS
The converter was designed and it is simulated using MATLAB simulink model. The output
from the proposed double boost converter is given the three phase inverter. The dc is
converted into AC voltage and then it is given to load system. The simulated circuit diagram
was presented in the Figure 3. The simulated waveforms for inverter output are shown in
Figure.4. The simulated waveforms for input current and output voltage are shown in Figure 5
and 6.

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3.1. Simulation Circuit Diagram

Figure 3 Simulation circuit diagram

3.2. Output Waveform with Three Phase Inverter

Figure 4 Simulated waveforms for three phase inverter

3.3. Input Current Waveform

Figure 5 Simulated waveform for input current

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3.4. Output Voltage Waveform

Figure 6 Simulated Waveform for output voltage of the converter

4. CONCLUSION
In this paper, it has been observed that, the double boost converter was designed and it is used
as the main control circuit converter for smart room application. The input given to the double
boost converter is from solar energy. The output voltage was doubled and it is given to the
input of the three phase inverter circuit. The load is connected across the inverter for smart
room application. In the smart room the one fan and light is controlled by remote control
operation. The PIC micro controller was used for producing the gate pulse in the hardware
circuit. The simulated results using MATLAB/SIMULINK are presented.

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