ETHOS Technical Reports
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
9-3-2017
Abstract
Over the 2017 summer, an immersion was held to Bangalore, India to work with the Selco Foundation with for an electrical engineering internship. The primary focus of this internship dealt with the analyzation and improvement of the hybrid ultra-capacitor (HUC) solar system. The systems were implemented with two different battery types, lead acid as well as lithium-ion battery integrations. Through data analysis of over 30 locations input, several modifications were made to the existing systems in order to better capture the HUC’s characteristics and to confirm its correct performance. In addition, an efficiency test was implemented to analyze the efficiency of the Mesha HUC charge controller. Analyzing the field data lead to the conclusion that there needed to be a modified data logger attached to the system. The analyzation of the efficiency lead to a further examination of the functionality of the Mesha system. In addition, a Matlab code was developed to reduce the time it would take to analyze future field data. The project is an ongoing research effort therefore it did not come to a conclusion during the internship’s time parameters.
eCommons Citation
Foster, Colton, "India: Hybrid Ultra-Capacitor Battery" (2017). ETHOS Technical Reports. 46.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ethos_reports/46
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