Design and Implementation of Smart Uninterruptable
Design and Implementation of Smart Uninterruptable
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to provide an uninterruptable power supply to the customers by selecting the supply from various reliable
power sources such as solar photovoltaic, AC mains and battery storage systems. Initially, the load gets power supply from the reliable
source (such as solar photovoltaic), if in case it is unavailable, then the proposed modules automatically switch over to the next reliable
source (such as AC mains), and so on. If in case all proposed renewable energy sources (RESs) are unavailable than the proposed mod-
ule automatically switch over to the local grid supply, if suppose the local grid supply is also unavailable then the proposed module au-
tomatically switch over to the power storage bank. Therefore, the proposed intelligent/smart power module can improve the system per-
formance and efficiency. The programming instruction of controller, the relay driver switches appropriate relay of sources to maintain
uninterruptable power supply to the proposed utility of capacity 0.1kW. The proposed back-up system gets charged from the available
reliable RESs with no pollution and noise, and it can also reduce the electricity bill. The proposed intelligent power module functions are
displayed on LCD, it has been designed and analyzed in real time environment.
Keywords: Battery Storage; Efficiency; Reliability; Renewable Energy Sources; Smart Power Module; Solar PV.
failure in the mains supply is proposed in [10]. Reference [11] status of the supply source from which the load gets supplied.
presents a practical implementation of a grid interactive photovol- Figure 1 depicts the schematic diagram of proposed real time
taic (PV) uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system using battery smart uninterruptable power supply module.
storage and a back up diesel generator. A selected combined to-
pology and a new control scheme are proposed in [12] to control Micro
the power sharing between batteries and supercapacitors. Refer-
ence [13] aims at the development of the autonomous power sup- Power Supply Controller LCD
ply system based on the energy mix. A hybrid energy system con- System Section
Solar PV
sisting of wind, PV and fuel cell is proposed in [14]. Reference
[15] has developed a frame work for solar Net Zero Energy Home Panel
Relay Section Load
systems for a single family household in rural India with retrofit-
ting of two appliances with PMDC motors. A multi-functional
intelligent uninterruptible power source (UPS) system for grid
composed of a three phase fully controlled rectifier, grid and PV
Charge Storage
SMPS
as power source, Lead Acid Battery and an IGBT inverter is pro- Controller Battery
posed in [16]. Reference [17] describes the components of a UPS Fig. 1: Schematic Diagram of the Proposed Smart Uninterruptable Power
system and reviews the design requirements necessary for its con- Supply Module.
struction with low cost and ease of maintenance. Reference [18]
develops a new Arm chips, a set of new ATmega products (such In the proposed approach, the power supply from the AC mains is
as ATmega 161, ATmega 162), new Network Interface Controller, given to both the battery backup system and the microcontroller
TCP/IP protocol suite and other software components. The most section. For the working of this microcontroller section, it requires
widely used adaptive hysteresis band current controller is pro- 5V supply, which can be supplied from power control section.
posed in [19] for Voltage Source Inverter used in UPS to eliminate This power supply section contains various components to step-
harmonics in output voltage and current. Reference [20] deals with down the voltage required for the microcontroller [23]. The brief
power factor correction units suitable for implementation in unin- description of the total components and their working principle are
terruptible power supplies. explained next:
The main aim of this paper is to provide uninterruptable power
supply to the loads from various energy sources, such as solar 2.1. Power supply system
photovoltaic, AC mains and battery backup system in low tariff
and highly efficient way. The main contributions of this paper are: The power supply system is designed to convert high voltage AC
• Provides uninterruptable power supply to the load from var- mains electricity to a suitable low voltage supply for the electrical
ious sources. circuits and other devices. A power supply can be broken down
• Provides rapid and reliable transfer of the system from one into a series of blocks, each of which performs a particular func-
power source to another power source. tion. A DC power supply which maintains the output voltage con-
• The automatic switching circuits are designed and imple- stant irrespective of AC mains fluctuations or load variations is
mented in real time environment with low cost tariff. known as regulated DC power supply. The 12V regulated power
• Provides supply to the load by using both renewable and supply system used in this paper is depicted in Figure 2.
non renewable sources.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows: The designing crite-
ria, schematic of proposed work with the components required and
working principle of the proposed smart uninterrupted power sup-
ply is described in Section 2. Section 3 presents the hardware de-
sign of the proposed real time module with the experimental setup.
The simulation results and discussion is presented in Section 4.
Finally, the contributions with concluding remarks are presented
in Section 5.
Fig. 3: Transformer Used in the Power Supply Module. from the output pin. A microcontroller consists of a powerful CPU
Rectifier is used to convert AC to DC, and this process is known tightly coupled with memory, various input/output interfaces such
as rectification. The bridge type full wave rectifier is used in this as serial port, parallel port timer or counter, interrupt controller,
paper and it is depicted in Figure 4. etc., integrated on to a single silicon chip. It has 4kB on chip flash
memory is used in this paper [27]. The on-chip flash ROM allows
the program memory to be reprogrammed in system. In this paper,
8051 microcontroller is used.
There are two buses in 8051 microcontroller one for program and
another is for data. As a result, it has two storage rooms for both
program and data of 64K by 8 size. The microcontroller comprise
of 8 bit accumulator & 8 bit processing unit [28]. For 8051 micro-
controller, the programming is performed with embedded C lan-
guage using Keil software. It also has a number of other 8 bit and
16 bit registers.
Most of the fixed voltage regulator IC’s have 3 leads and looks
like power transistors, such as the 7805 +5V 1A regulator. The
positive lead of unregulated DC power supply is connected to the
input pin and the negative lead is connected to the common pin Fig. 9: Charge Controller Used in the Smart Uninterrupted Power Supply
and then when the power supply is turned ON, 12 volts is supplied System.
International Journal of Engineering & Technology 963
An electric battery consists of one or more electrochemical cells tion will display the status of supply source. The intelligent/smart
that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy. A 12V, power module is designed in such a way that, the solar panel is
7Ah battery is used to run the motor and it is depicted in Figure 10. connected to the storage battery through the charge controller and
a direct connection between the AC mains and battery using relay
drive. A 100W bulb as load is connected to the module [28-30].
The top view of implemented smart uninterruptible power supply
module with solar PV panel, charge controller, SMPS, storage
battery, microcontroller and the power supply is depicted in Figure
12. The connections are made in such a way that, uninterruptable
power supply is achieved at the load section.
Fig. 10: Storage Battery Used in the Smart Uninterrupted Power Supply
System.
When the solar energy is available then the load gets supplied
from it. If the solar energy is unavailable then immediately the
load gets supplied from the next reliable source mains. If both the
sources are unavailable then the load gets supplied from the stor-
age battery which is charged from the solar energy and supply
mains during their active time [29]. A flow chart resembling the Fig. 12: Top View of Implemented Hardware of Smart Uninterrupted
working principle of proposed smart uninterruptible power supply Power Supply System.
system is depicted in Figure 11.
The side view of developed intelligent/smart power module is
Start depicted in Figure 13. In this side view, one can observe SMPS,
storage battery, solar PV panel, power supply section, microcon-
troller section, relay section and load section.
Is
solar PV source Yes
available
?
No
Power is Is
No
supplied from mains source
the storage available
battery ?
Yes
Power is supplied
through this source
Stop
Fig. 11: Flow Chart of Proposed Smart Uninterrupted Power Supply Sys-
Fig. 13: Side View of Implemented Hardware of Smart Uninterrupted
tem.
Power Supply System.
Acknowledgments
This research work is based on the support of “Woosong Universi-
ty's Academic Research Funding - 2018” and “TKR College of
Engineering & Technology's Research Funding”.
Fig. 14: LCD Section Displaying the Status of the Supply Source.
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