TY - GEN
T1 - A coreless maximum power point tracking circuit of thermoelectric generators for battery charging systems
AU - Cho, Sungkyu
AU - Kim, Namjae
AU - Park, Soonseo
AU - Kim, Shiho
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We have proposed and fabricated a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit for thermoelectric generator (TEG) without digital controller unit. The experimental and simulation results from the proposed MPPT circuit employing the boost cascaded-with-buck converter dealt with rapid variation of temperature and abrupt changes of load current have shown that the proposed method allows stable operation with high power transfer efficiency. The main advantage of proposed method is analog tracking circuit by sampling half VOC level without DSP or micro controller unit for calculating peak power point by iterative methods. The proposed MPPT circuit has a merit in cost and miniaturization of a system compared to conventional MPPT algorithms.
AB - We have proposed and fabricated a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) circuit for thermoelectric generator (TEG) without digital controller unit. The experimental and simulation results from the proposed MPPT circuit employing the boost cascaded-with-buck converter dealt with rapid variation of temperature and abrupt changes of load current have shown that the proposed method allows stable operation with high power transfer efficiency. The main advantage of proposed method is analog tracking circuit by sampling half VOC level without DSP or micro controller unit for calculating peak power point by iterative methods. The proposed MPPT circuit has a merit in cost and miniaturization of a system compared to conventional MPPT algorithms.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASSCC.2010.5716603
DO - 10.1109/ASSCC.2010.5716603
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952852363
SN - 9781424482979
T3 - 2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
SP - 253
EP - 256
BT - 2010 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
T2 - 2010 6th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2010
Y2 - 8 November 2010 through 10 November 2010
ER -