Optimization of An Energy Recovery Circuit For A Low-Voltage Lighting System
Optimization of An Energy Recovery Circuit For A Low-Voltage Lighting System
Institute for Management of Energy (IME), University of Antananarivo, PB 566, Antananarivo 101, Madagascar
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Received: 12 Aug 2024, Abstract— This work is devoted to the study of the physical properties
Receive in revised form: 12 Sep 2024, of a circuit that allows both the last remaining charges of a pile or a
accumulator yes cells unique to be used in other devices and to save
Accepted: 19 Sep 2024,
energy stored in a new battery and all this in the lighting domain . The
Available online: 24 Oct 2024 corresponding device is made from a transistor, a resistor and a coil.
©2024 The Author(s). Published by AI The coil is made up of a standard ferrite core with two windings of
Publication. This is an open-access article under which the primary contains 34 turns and the secondary, 58 turns. Most
the CC BY license components are local components. The study is based on the Proteus
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). simulation software. The experiment of the device consists of
comparisons of the energy consumed by an electroluminescent diode
Keywords— transistor, coil, ferrite, simulation,
without the designed circuit and with this circuit to see its performance.
primary, diode.
In particular, the circuit can use a very low voltage of about 0.37V and
can power the electroluminescent diode for a week without interruption
if it is powered by a R6S/1.5V battery.
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Fig. 3: Schematic representation of a junction Fig. 3. Schematic and structural representation of an LED.
diode.
2.3. Transistor
There are two types of polarization for the diode:
2.3.1. Description
• The polarization directly;
A transistor is an electronic device that is found in
• The polarization in reverse. several applications namely oscillators, converters,
2.1.2. Direct polarization microcontrollers, microprocessors, switches, current
amplifiers, voltage amplifiers, power amplifiers, etc. Or,
The direct polarization consists of introducing a current
there are several types of transistor according to their
"I" to the positive pole of the diode, starting from point
structure.
"A" and heading towards point "C".
Table 1: Types of transistors according to their
structure.
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• The transmitter "E" is heavily doped. Its role 2.3.3. Operating regime
is to inject electrons into the base. It is The purpose of the polarization of the junctions is
identified by an arrow that indicates the to fix the values of the voltages UBE, UBC and the
direction of the current in the junction currents IC, IB to impose the localization of the points
between base and collector. and to know the operating regime of the transistor in
• The "B" base is weakly doped and very thin. the network.
It transmits most of the electrons coming Table 2: Mode of operation of the bipolar
from the emitter to the collector. transistor.
• The collector "C" collects the electrons that Voltage of junctions Polarization of Operatin
come from the base of its name. junctions g regime
According to the mounting sense, we can have two BE BC
types of bipolar transistor referring to the PN junctions
(diodes), one of which is polarized directly and the Positiv Positive (+) Direct Direct Saturé
other, inversely: e (+) Direct
(SD)
• An NPN transistor (two negative terminals
Positive (+) Direct Direct Saturated
and one positive terminal); A PNP
Inverse
transistor (one negative terminal and two
(SI)
positive terminals).
negative (-) Direct Inverse Normal
Direct
(ND)
negativ Positive (+) Invers Direct Inverse
e (-) e Normal
(NI)
negative (-) Invers Inverse Blocked
e
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Resistance is un electronic component don't the A coil is an electronic component made up of a coil
main role is to oppose more or less to the circulation du of conductive wire around a core. It is diagrammed in
electric current . an electric circuit according to Fig. 11.
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(25)
The transformer is at no load when the secondary
winding has not been connected to a receiver but open.
Thus, the flux variation induces a voltage in the
Fig. 9. Illustration of the magnetic behavior of secondary winding but does not flow any current. The
substances . primary winding behaves like a simple inductance that
opposes the passage of the current.
2.5.3. Power transformer, [21] The transformer works in charge when a receiver
The conversion of electrical energy makes use, in is connected to the output of the secondary winding. In
general, of two types of physical phenomena: this case, the variation in flux induced in the secondary
winding generates another current which creates a
• Electrical phenomena associated with magnetic field opposite to the field produced by the
current; primary. In the end, there is perfect equality between
• Magnetic phenomena associated with the power generated by the secondary and the power
magnetic flux. consumed by the primary winding.. From the equality
of apparent powers, we obtain:
A power transformer is a static device that transfers
electrical energy thanks to electromagnetic induction. P1 = P2 (26)
For a transformer, two windings are at least necessary With:
to be able to modify the level of the input signal without P 1, the power consumed by the primary
modifying the frequency. winding;
P 2, the power generated by the secondary
winding.
Thus :
U 1 *I 1 = U 2 *I 2 (27)
If the tension applied at the entrance is lower than
the cell recovered at the exit, the transformer works as
an elevator, in the opposite case, as a step-down
transformer.
And if we suppose that the number of turns of the
Fig. 10. Diagram of a power transformer with two
primary compartment is higher than that of the
windings, [22].
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3.2. Achievements
3.2.1. Montage and interpretation
The realization of the combined circuit with its
prototype is made from a resistance of value 1k , of
power 1/4W, of a reference NPN type bipolar transistor
2N2222, an electroluminescent diode with a nominal
voltage of 3.5V and a coil with a ferrite core. Fig. 16. Photo of the device powered by a BEXEL
brand AAA battery.
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Autonomy ( days ) 3 11 7 5 -
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Table 9: Longevity comparison between the direct branching and the presence of the circuit.
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