International Journal of Electrical and

Electronics Engineering Research (IJEEER)

ISSN 2250-155X
Vol. 3, Issue 4, Oct 2013, 29-34
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Electronics Engineering Research (IJEEER)
ISSN 2250-155X
Vol. 3, Issue 4, Oct 2013, 29-34
TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.

BATTERY HEALTH MONITORING FOR MINI HYBRID POWER SYSTEM USING

LABVIEW

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N DINESH KUMAR, SAHITH GATTU, U SHASHANK& ABHINAV DINESH
1Associate Professor & HOD EIE, Vignan Institute of Technology & Science, Deshmukh
i, Andhra Pradesh, India
2Student, Pursuing Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at University of
South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL, USA
3Student, Pursuing Masters in Electrical Engineering at State University, Buffal
o, New York, USA,
4Supply Chain Operation Trainee (SCOT), Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, H
yderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT
Power has become the main source to run this present world. Due to lack of resou
rces production of electricity is
falling drastically day by day. The objective of this paper is to control the po
sition of a solar panel in accordance with the
motion of sun and also wind energy. Micro controller is used to control or regul
ate the position of solar panel according to
the direction and movement of sun. In this process solar panel is used as sensor
which absorbs the solar energy and
converts solar energy to Direct Current (DC). Thus obtained Direct Current can b
e converted to Alternative current using
AC/DC converters and can be used for various household power supplies and for ot
her activities. Wind energy is also
converted into DC. In order to obtain the health condition of the battery in the
process, Sensors are connected to DAQ
module which in turn programmed by LabView for lossless power generation.
KEYWORDS: Front Panel, LabView, NI DAQ, Solar Energy, Virtual Instrumentation, W
ind Energy
INTRODUCTION
The two main sources of energy that can be used at free of cost without affectin
g the environment is wind energy
and solar energy. If they can be converted into useful form of energy, power can
be generated. Wind power is the
conversion of wind energy into a useful form of energy, Wind energy is the kinet
ic energy associated with the movement
of atmospheric air. Solar radiation, along with secondary solar-powered resource
s such as wind and wave power,
hydroelectricity and biomass. To harvest the solar energy, the most common way i
s to use solar panels.
A solar tracker is a device for orienting a day lighting reflector, solar photov
oltaic panel or concentrating solar
reflector or lens toward the sun. Trackers add to the efficiency of the system,
reducing its size and the cost per KWH. Dual-
axis trackers ( full tracking ) move on two axes to point directly at the sun, takin
g maximum advantage of the sun s
energy. Single-axis trackers follow the sun accurately enough that their output
can be very close to full tracking. The main
reason to use a solar tracker is to reduce the cost of the energy you want to ca
pture.
Virtual Instrumentation (VI)
Virtual instrumentation is the use of customizable software and modular measurem
ent hardware to create user-
defined measurement systems, called virtual instruments. Traditional hardware in
strumentation systems are made up of
pre-defined hardware components, such as digital multimeters and oscilloscopes t
hat are completely specific to their
stimulus, analysis, or measurement function. Because of their hard-coded functio
n, these systems are more limited in their
versatility than virtual instrumentation systems.
The primary difference between hardware instrumentation and virtual instrumentat
ion is that software is used to
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replace a large amount of hardware. The software enables complex and expensive h
ardware to be replaced by already
purchased computer hardware; e. g. analog to digital converter can act as a hard
ware complement of a virtual oscilloscope,
a potentiostat enables frequency response acquisition and analysis in electroche
mical impedance spectroscopy with virtual
instrumentation. Additionally, software packages like National Instruments' LabV
iew and other graphical programming
languages helped grow adoption by making it easier for non-programmers to develo
p systems.
Advantages of VI
.
By combining LabView with standard data acquisition and instrument control devic
es, you can create virtual
instruments and use them in many applications.
.
With LabView you can get up running quickly to acquire and generate signals from
plug in boards, USB devices
and Ethernet based systems. The data acquisition functionality includes automati
c configuration and test panels
for verifying operation.
.
Data acquisition, Image acquisition, Motion control, Instrument control, Distrib
uted I/O, Measurement analysis,
and Remote access and data presentation
.
Areas of application Space research, Bio medical instrumentation, Data analysis,
Image recognition, Voice
recognition and Process station control.
LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench)
LabView is a platform and development environment for a visual programming langu
age from National
Instruments. The graphical language is named "G". LabVIEW is commonly used for d
ata acquisition, instrument control,
and industrial automation on a variety of platforms including Microsoft Windows,
various flavors of UNIX, Linux, and
Mac OS. Other programming systems use text-based languages to create lines of co
de, while LabVIEW uses a graphical
programming language, G, to create programs in block diagram form. LabVIEW inclu
des libraries for data acquisition,
data analysis, data presentation, and data storage.
A LabVIEW program is called a virtual instrument (VI) because it s appearance and
operation can imitate an
actual instrument. LabView can acquire any type of signal from compatible hardwa
re devices, including temperature,
voltage, pressure, strain, vibration and more. LabView gives the flexibility of
a powerful programming language without
the complexity of traditional development environments and delivers extensive AC
QUISITION, ANALYSIS, and
PRESENTATION capabilities within a single environment, so you can seamlessly dev
elop a complete solution on the
platform of your choice.
A VI contains the following three components:
.
Front panel Serves as the user interface.
.
Block diagram contains the graphical source code that defines the functionality of
the VI.
.
Icon and connector pane identifies the VI so that one can use the VI in another V
I. A VI within another VI is
called a subVI. A subVI corresponds to a subroutine in text-based programming la
nguage
POWER GENERATING SYSTEM
The block diagram shown in the figure 1 shows a simple means of generating power
from natural resources like solar
and wind.
Battery Health Monitoring for Mini Hybrid Power System Using Labview

Figure 1: Block Diagram for Generating Power

Wind Power Generating System
Any power generating system being built for wind mainly consists of the followin
g five things in common:
Blades, generator, mounting, batteries and an electronic control system
Blades
Thick plastic or polyu vinyl chloride (pvc) material is used to design blades. D
ue to light weight characteristic of
blades, they rotate easily with normal air speed.
Generator
Permanent magnet DC motors work as generators, but they weren't designed to be g
enerators. Still you can use it
in this case.
Mounting
Thick metal rod like Iron of required shape is welded to the blades. Metal base
is welded to iron rod for rigid
support.
Batteries
Battery is used for power backup. In this case a 12 V battery is charged using t
he wind energy
Electronic Control System
Basic battery of 12V supply is attached to blades with the help of wires and sma
ll LEDs are connected in order to
check the charging status of battery connected to blades.
Solar Power Generating System
The solar power generating system is designed to track sun on Dual axis. The tra
cking is done continuously and
the solar panel will stop at a point where light intensity is maximum. The proce
ss continuous for every one minute. The
path of the sun during its rise and fall is considered as semicircle. This corre
sponding tracking is done by a stepper motor
and the programming of stepper motor is done using Microcontroller. This solar p
ower generating system consists of two
parts an interfacing circuit of stepper motor with PIC microcontroller and A vi
that monitors the digital output on the
digital I/O module of NI.
Microcontroller PIC16F877A
A microcontroller (sometimes abbreviated C, uC or MCU) is a small computer on a s
ingle integrated circuit
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containing a processor core, memory, and programmable input/output peripherals.
Program memory in the form of NOR
flash or OTP ROM is also often included on chip, as well as a typically small am
ount of RAM. Microcontrollers are
designed for embedded applications, in contrast to the microprocessors used in p
ersonal computers or other general
purpose applications.
Functional Block Diagram of Overall System
The overall functional block diagram is shown in the figure 2.

Figure 2: Functional Block Diagram

SOFTWARE FLOW
The functional block diagram shown above is implemented using LabView. The follo
wing block diagram
(figure 3) shows the data acquisition program for the final voltages and current
s from the battery and after the inverter
which is mentioned in the functional block diagram.

Figure 3: VI for Final Data Acquisition

Due to the non availability of current sensors, the current from the battery whe
n connected to a load of resistance
80ohms is calculated from the voltage obtained from the potential divider circui
t as shown in figure 4.
Battery Health Monitoring for Mini Hybrid Power System Using Labview

Figure 4: Circuit for Generating Current from the Battery

The voltage across the 10Kohm resistor is acquired into LabView using NI9175 vol
tage analog input DAQ. The
current through third branch can be measured by dividing the voltage with the re
sistance. This current is added with the
current through load to give the total current from the battery. The voltage and
the current are multiplied to give dc power.
RESULTS
The front panel shows three graphs. The figure 5 shown plots power vs. time. Fig
ure 6 & 7 shows the battery
health indicating the amount power, voltage and current available in the battery
at any moment of time.

Figure 5: Front Panel Showing a Plot for Power vs Time

Figure 6: Health Monitoring of Battery at Minimum Power in Battery

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Figure 7: Health Monitoring of Battery at Maximum Power in Battery

CONCLUSIONS
This paper describes in detail the design for generating power from natural reso
urces like wind and solar energy
that are going to be the future hybrid power generating system which can be very
easily installed in and around home
surroundings. This system can produces a good power even with normal wind speeds
and is economically affordable. The
dual tracking solar system tracks the sun which increases the normal output by 2
5 to 30% more. Hence this hybrid system
along with LabView monitors the power generated and also represents all these in
terms of plots which can be analyzed
easily.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We express our deep sense of gratitude and thanks to Trident Tech Labs, Hyderaba
d, and also National
Instruments for their consistent support throughout the project and feel privile
ge to thank Trident Tech Labs Technical
Engineer Mr. Shafeeq,
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