scholarly journals Assessing The Change In Voltage In Citric Fruit Lemon Due To Ageing

2021 ◽  
pp. 229-232
Author(s):  
Beena Puthillath ◽  
Priya Venugopal ◽  
Aswini J ◽  
Ratish Menon ◽  
Francis Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Citrus Fruits ◽  
Lemon Fruit ◽  
In Series

In this study citric fruit lemon was used for generation of electricity. The lemon fruit can be used as such or in crushed form. In order to achieve higher voltages, we connected more number of fruits in series. For higher magnitude of current we have to connect lemon in parallel and for increased voltage and current we have to connect lemon in series parallel combination. Here we used citrus fruits, wires and electrodes for performing the experiment. The out is connected to LED to check the output. Output voltage is measured in various conditions using Multimeter. The various conditions under study are raw lemon, ripe lemon, aged lemon. The assumption was due to ageing the magnitude of voltage and current decreases. It is found that raw and ripe lemon gives better output voltage compared to aged lemon. More the age of the lemon lesser is the magnitude of voltage. This method can be used not only for power generation using citric fruit lemon but also after power generation it can be used as natural manure. More over this method does not cause any pollution or global warming. As the magnitude of the current and voltage is small the output can be used for working of devices which operates in low voltage and current thereby reducing the usage of pollution causing batteries.

scholarly journals Resonant Converter with Soft Switching and Wide Voltage Operation

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bor-Ren Lin
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Resonant Converters ◽  
Resonant Converter ◽  
Switching Loss ◽  
Voltage Range ◽  
Power Diodes ◽  
Switching Losses ◽  
In Series

A new DC/DC resonant converter with wide output voltage range operation is presented and studied to have the benefits of low switching losses on active devices and low voltage stresses on power diodes. To overcome serious reverse recovery losses of power diodes on a conventional full-bridge pulse-width modulation converter, the resonant converter is adopted to reduce the switching loss and increase the circuit efficiency. To extend the output voltage range in conventional half-bridge or full-bridge resonant converters, the secondary sides of two diode rectifiers are connected in series to have wide output voltage operation. The proposed converter can be either operated at one-resonant-converter mode for low voltage range or two-resonant-converter mode for high voltage range. Thus, the voltage rating of power diodes is decreased. Experiments with the design example are given to show the circuit performance and validate the theoretical discussion and analysis.

scholarly journals Design of a Medium Voltage Generator with DC-Cascade for High Power Wind Energy Conversion Systems

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3106
Author(s):  
Jonas Steffen ◽  
Sebastian Lengsfeld ◽  
Marco Jung ◽  
Bernd Ponick ◽  
Mercedes Herranz Gracia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Output Voltage ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Cooling System ◽  
Synchronous Generator ◽  
Dc Voltage ◽  
Medium Voltage ◽  
Energy Conversion Systems ◽  
In Series ◽  
Power Application ◽  
Power Rectifier

This paper shows a new concept to generate medium voltage (MV) in wind power application to avoid an additional transformer. Therefore, the generator must be redesigned with additional constraints and a new topology for the power rectifier system by using multiple low voltage (LV) power rectifiers connected in series and parallel to increase the DC output voltage. The combination of parallel and series connection of rectifiers is further introduced as DC-cascade. With the resulting DC-cascade, medium output voltage is achieved with low voltage rectifiers and without a bulky transformer. This approach to form a DC-cascade reduces the effort required to achieve medium DC voltage with a simple rectifier system. In this context, a suitable DC-cascade control was presented and verified with a laboratory test setup. A gearless synchronous generator, which is highly segmented so that each segment can be connected to its own power rectifier, is investigated. Due to the mixed AC and DC voltage given by the DC-cascade structure, it becomes more demanding to the design of the generator insulation, which influences the copper fill factor and the design of the cooling system. A design strategy for the overall generator design is carried out considering the new boundary conditions.

scholarly journals Novel High-Efficiency High Step-Up DC–DC Converter with Soft Switching and Low Component Voltage Stress for Photovoltaic System

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 1112
Author(s):  
Yu-En Wu ◽  
Jyun-Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Voltage ◽  
Output Voltage ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Leakage Inductance ◽  
Power Switch ◽  
Half Wave Voltage ◽  
Half Wave ◽  
Voltage Stress ◽  
Voltage Doubler

This study developed a novel, high-efficiency, high step-up DC–DC converter for photovoltaic (PV) systems. The converter can step-up the low output voltage of PV modules to the voltage level of the inverter and is used to feed into the grid. The converter can achieve a high step-up voltage through its architecture consisting of a three-winding coupled inductor common iron core on the low-voltage side and a half-wave voltage doubler circuit on the high-voltage side. The leakage inductance energy generated by the coupling inductor during the conversion process can be recovered by the capacitor on the low-voltage side to reduce the voltage surge on the power switch, which gives the power switch of the circuit a soft-switching effect. In addition, the half-wave voltage doubler circuit on the high-voltage side can recover the leakage inductance energy of the tertiary side and increase the output voltage. The advantages of the circuit are low loss, high efficiency, high conversion ratio, and low component voltage stress. Finally, a 500-W high step-up converter was experimentally tested to verify the feasibility and practicability of the proposed architecture. The results revealed that the highest efficiency of the circuit is 98%.

scholarly journals A Novel Hybrid LDC Converter Topology for the Integrated On-Board Charger of Electric Vehicles

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3603
Author(s):  
Vu-Hai Nam ◽  
Duong-Van Tinh ◽  
Woojin Choi
Keyword(s):  
Low Voltage ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Maximum Efficiency ◽  
Battery Charger ◽  
Forward Converter ◽  
Vehicle To Grid ◽  
Circulating Current ◽  
In Series ◽  
Converter Topology ◽  
Output Capacitor

Recently, the integrated On-Board Charger (OBC) combining an OBC converter with a Low-Voltage DC/DC Converter (LDC) has been considered to reduce the size, weight and cost of DC-DC converters in the EV system. This paper proposes a new integrated OBC converter with V2G (Vehicle-to-Grid) and auxiliary battery charge functions. In the proposed integrated OBC converter, the OBC converter is composed of a bidirectional full-bridge converter with an active clamp circuit and a hybrid LDC converter with a Phase-Shift Full-Bridge (PSFB) converter and a forward converter. ZVS for all primary switches and nearly ZCS for the lagging switches can be achieved for all the operating conditions. In the secondary side of the proposed LDC converter, an additional circuit composed of a capacitor and two diodes is employed to clamp the oscillation voltage across rectifier diodes and to eliminate the circulating current. Since the output capacitor of the forward converter is connected in series with the output capacitor of the auxiliary battery charger, the energy from the propulsion battery can be delivered to the auxiliary battery during the freewheeling interval and it helps reduce the current ripple of the output inductor, leading to a smaller volume of the output inductor. A 1 kW prototype converter is implemented to verify the performance of the proposed topology. The maximum efficiency of the proposed converter achieved by the experiments is 96%.

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