VRLA Battery Rapid Charging under Stress Management

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1229-1237

  Hunter, Phillip M ^a   Anbuky, Adnan H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Invensys Energy Systems NZ Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Battery charging; Fuzzy logic; Rapid recharge; Saturation stress; State of charge; Thermal stress; Valve regulated lead acid (VRLA) battery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARGING (BATTERIES); CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ESTIMATION; FUZZY SETS; HEAT TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL STRESS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

SATURATION STRESS; STATE OF CHARGE; VALVE-REGULATED LEAD-ACID (VRLA) BATTERIES;

LEAD ACID BATTERIES;

EID: 0346055423     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.819684     Document Type: Article

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