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Voltage Balancing Circuit for Li-ion Battery System

리튬-이온 배터리 시스템을 위한 전압안정화 회로

  • Received : 2013.08.09
  • Accepted : 2013.09.02
  • Published : 2013.10.31
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Abstract

Recently, Li-ion battery is regarded as a potential energy storage device in the lime light and it can supply power to the satellite very effectively during eclipse. Because it has better features as high voltage range, large capacity and small volume than any other battery. Generally, multi cells are connected in series to use Li-ion batteries in satellite application. Since the internal resistance of cells is different each other, voltage in some cells can be overcharged or undercharged, so capacity of the cell is reduced and the life of whole battery pack is decreased. Therefore, a voltage balancing circuit with Fly-back converter is proposed and the voltage equalization of each cell is verified the prototype in this paper.

최근 인공위성의 에너지 저장 매체로서 리튬-이온 배터리가 각광을 받는 추세이다. 리튬-이온 배터리는 다른 화학적 특성을 가지는 배터리들에 비해 높은 작동 전압과 큰 용량을 가지면서 부피도 작기 때문에 위성의 eclipse 기간 동안 위성에 전력을 공급하는 데에 매우 효과적이다. 위성에 전력을 공급하기 위한 에너지 저장 장치로서 리튬-이온 배터리를 사용하기 위해서는 하나의 cell이 아닌 다중 cell을 직렬 연결해서 사용해야 한다. 그러나 cell 간의 미소한 내부저항 차이 때문에 cell 전압의 언밸런스 (Unbalance)가 야기되고 충전 시 저항이 낮은 cell이 과 충전 되어 전지 용량이 급격히 저하되고 이로 인해 배터리의 수명이 줄어들게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Fly-back topology를 이용하여 다중 cell을 직렬 연결할 때 각 cell간의 전압 편차를 줄여주는 전압안정화 회로를 구현하였으며, prototype 제작 및 시험을 통해 배터리의 전압이 균일해지는 것을 확인하였다.

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