{"title":"A photovoltaic stand-alone lighting system with polymeric-silica-gel-electrolyte-based substrate-integrated lead-carbon hybrid ultracapacitors","authors":"A. Banerjee, S. Ramasesha, A. Shukla","doi":"10.1515/eetech-2015-0001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Harnessing solar electricity generated through photovoltaic cells with lead-acid batteries remains the most compelling option at present. But lead-acid batteries have encountered problems in photovoltaic installations, mainly due to their premature failure. To circumvent the aforesaid problem, a new technology referred to as substrate-integrated lead-carbon hybrid ultracapacitor with polymeric-silica-gel electrolyte, is developed inhouse and tested for solar-electricity storage for a lighting application. The high-throughput performance tests for the device are conducted at laboratory scale and compatibility of the device for photovoltaic application is evaluated. In doing so, the device is installed with a photovoltaic panel for field test and data are collected from August 2012 through July 2013. The year round field-test data analyzed in the light of the available global-horizontalirradiance data show attractive performance for the device. It is noteworthy that, unlike lead-acid batteries, seasonal variations in solar radiance exhibit little effect on the performance of the device.","PeriodicalId":443383,"journal":{"name":"Electrochemical Energy Technology","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Electrochemical Energy Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/eetech-2015-0001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Abstract Harnessing solar electricity generated through photovoltaic cells with lead-acid batteries remains the most compelling option at present. But lead-acid batteries have encountered problems in photovoltaic installations, mainly due to their premature failure. To circumvent the aforesaid problem, a new technology referred to as substrate-integrated lead-carbon hybrid ultracapacitor with polymeric-silica-gel electrolyte, is developed inhouse and tested for solar-electricity storage for a lighting application. The high-throughput performance tests for the device are conducted at laboratory scale and compatibility of the device for photovoltaic application is evaluated. In doing so, the device is installed with a photovoltaic panel for field test and data are collected from August 2012 through July 2013. The year round field-test data analyzed in the light of the available global-horizontalirradiance data show attractive performance for the device. It is noteworthy that, unlike lead-acid batteries, seasonal variations in solar radiance exhibit little effect on the performance of the device.