Battery Types

of
PV System
 Battery Design
Some Important Components of Battery Construction:
1. Cell: basic electrochemical unit.
2. Active Materials: raw composition materials that
form the positive and negative plates.
3. Electrolyte: a conducting medium.
4. Grid: framework that support the active meterial on
a battery plate & conduct current.
5. Plate: consist of a grid & active material (electrode)
(thickness of grid & plate affect deep cycle ).
 Battery Design
Some Important Components of Battery Construction:

6. Separator: a porous, insulation the +Ve & -Ve plates.

7. Element: stack of +Ve & -Ve plate group separators
assembled together.
8. Terminal Posts: external +Ve & -Ve electrical connection to a
battery.
9. Cell Vents: during charging & discharging gasses need to
vented to atmosphere.
10.Case: the case contain the plates, separators and electrolyte
in a battery.
 Lead-Acid Battery
Classifications
• SLI Batteries: Starting, Lighting & Ignition..cars

• Motive Power or Traction Batteries: deep

disch. Cycle typically used for electrically
veheicles. (very popular used in PV system).

• Stationary Batteries: used in un-interruptible

power supplies (UPS)
 Common Lead-Acid types used in PV system

1. Lead-Antimony Batteries
2. Lead-Calcium Batteries.
a. Flooded Lead-Calcium, Open Vent.
b. Flooded Lead-Calcium, Sealed Vent.
3. Lead-Antimony/Lead-Calcium Hybrid.
4. Captive Electrolyte Lead-Acid Batteries.
a. Gelled Batteries.
b. Absorbed Glass Mat (AGM) Batteries.
5. Calcium-Calcium Batteries.
 Nickel-Cadmium Batteries
1. Sintered Plate Ni-Cads.

2. Pocket Plate Ni-Cads.