Chloride Power Systems and Solutions Limited, a 100% subsidiary of Exide Industries Limited, offers complete DC Power Solutions for industrial customers. Established in 1980, it is a leading name in the field of power electronics in India. Its state-of-the-art facility at Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Kolkata manufactures a wide range of Battery Chargers and other DC controlling equipment. Chloride also exports its products to overseas countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, UAE , Africa and to South and South East Asia. As a part of its policy of continuous innovation, Chloride has developed Formation Chargers for formation (charging and discharging) of new batteries.

Formation ChargerFormation process, be it Jar Formation or Tank Formation, plays an extremely critical role in battery manufacturing. Any departure from the targeted charge-discharge schedule may have a very serious effect on the quality of the end product despite having an excellent design and perfect ingredients. Besides maintaining accuracy and integrity, the Formation Charger has to be therefore very robust and reliable as well. Modern battery manufacturing facility also demands it to be a very user-friendly and flexible product to accommodate varying needs in a factory. Zero or minimal downtime and easy maintainability are other two very important criteria of a good Formation Charger.

With its 4-decade long experience in design and manufacture of high capacity rectifiers/chargers for critical sectors like large Thermal Power Plants, Hydel Power Plants, Nuclear Power Plants, Transmission and Distribution Substations and a very wide range of industries in India and abroad, Chloride now offers Constant Current (CC) and Constant Voltage (CV) Formation Chargers. Besides its own rich expertise and exposure in power electronics industry, Chloride has collected inputs from the R&D Centre and seven battery manufacturing units of its principal company, M/S Exide Industries Limited, to design and manufacture a product range which addresses all the major concerns.

Indigenously developed Microcontroller, Firing Card, Power Circuit and PCBs provide flexibility to meet customer specific needs. The intelligently designed common firing cards and microcontroller cards for different ratings of formation chargers enable easy replaceability and allow lower inventory maintenance of spares. The chargers are designed to take special protection against fuse burn at the time of power failure during discharging to ensure zero or minimal disruption. The chargers are also provided with additional features like Jump in time, Jump in step and jump in cycle operation. Intelligent PC software enables group operation (program load/run/stop) of multiple circuits.

The operation of the system is fully automatic and controlled through microcontroller circuit which also communicates with the PC software user interface. Chloride’s in-house developed PC software facilitates the use of common PC interface for both PLC and Microcontroller based formation chargers.

Controller Card: The controller cards control the power conversion of the system during charging and discharging. It receives feedback from the system and performs all the required adjustment automatically to deliver desired output from the system.

Micro- Controller Card: This card is like the brain of the system. It receives all the inputs from the operator through operating software, senses all the feedback signals and generates controlling signals to control the systems. It also generates the alarm signal in case of any problem.

Rectifier Circuit: This is the main component that performs the power conversion. It is a SCR Bridge assembly, which rectifies the 3-phase supply into desired level of DC output depending upon the control signal received from the Controller Card.

Application:

The main application area of these systems are formation of the new batteries i.e. charging and discharging of the new batteries as per formation schedule. The life, capacity utilization and performance of the batteries depend on charging and discharging during formation stage.

Main Transformer: Specially designed transformer provides the required galvanic isolation in between primary and all secondary windings. Smart design ensures minimum loss during the idle condition of chargers or when all channels are working at a full capacity. The transformer design also enables the charger to feedback the power to the grid during discharge operation.

Model No. Max Voltage Current Range No. of Channels Model No. Max Voltage Current Range No. of ChannelsFCD-360V60A4      360V 6A- 60A 4 FCD-180V120A6 180V 12-120A 6FCD-360V5A20      360V 0.5A- 5A 20 FCD-360V8A20      360V 0.8A- 8A 20FCD-180V120A6    180V 12A- 120A 6 FCD-180V100A3 180V 10-100A 3FCD-360V30A12     360V 3A- 30A 12 FCD-360V10A10     360V 1A- 10A 20FCD-360V50A12     360V 5A- 50A 12 FCD-360V50A10     360V 5A- 50A 10FCD-360V40A12     360V 4A- 40A 12 FCD-150V300A2     150V 30A-300A 2FCD-150V500A1     150V 50A-500A 1 FCD-100V400A1     100V 40A-400A 1FCD-150V600A1     150V 60A-600A 1 FCD-360V75A5     360V 7.5A- 75A 5FCD-180V5A5 180V 0.5-5A 20 FCD-360V100A5     360V 10A-100A 5FCD-180V15A5 180V 1.5-15A 5 FCD-360V25A16   360V 2.5A- 25A 16FCD-180V300A1 180V 30-300A 1 FCD-360V32A16     360V 3.2A- 32A 16FCD-180V60A5   180V 6A- 60A 5 FCD-360V5A24     360V 0.5A- 5A 24

**These are some standard Models. We can customized the design with required nos. of Channel and rating.

An Overview• More than 40 years of experience in Power Electronics• An ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 & ISO 45001:2018 certified company• Most trusted name in DC Power Solutions• In-house transformer/choke design and manufacturing facility• In-house PCB design, soldering and testing facility to ensure the highest quality.• Approved by all leading consultants• Approved by all major end users, utilities and industries

• Complete in- house design. No dependency on external/ overseas agencies.• Common PCBs for all ratings.• Less failure- Low downtime.• Less power consumption lowers the heating causing better life span.• Common PC Interface for Micro- Controller and PLC based systems.• “Jump in Time” function enables user to jump into a particular time of a step in case of system interruption.• User friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI)A

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Chloride Power Systems and Solutions Limited (a wholly owned subsidiary of Exide Industries Limited) KOLKATA : Plot No.Y-21, Block-EP, Sector-V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex,Kolkata 700 091, West Bengal, India , Phone Nos. (033) 2357 5851/5852/5853/5854/7841, Fax : (033) 2357 7062, Email : info@chloridepower.co.in, Website : www.chloridepowersystems.com, Indrajit Bhattacharya Mobile No. : +919674163117 Email: Indrajit@chloridepower.co.in, Santasri Sarma Mobile No. : +919830482288 Email: sarmas@chloridepower.co.in, Sk Mosharaf Ali Mobile No. : +919051570328 Email: mosharaf@chloridepower.co.in, Santanu Mukherjee Mobile No. : 9674163118+919874401566 Email : santanum@chloridepower.co.in, DELHI: 8/42 Kirti Nagar Industrial Area. New Delhi 110015 Phone : 011- 32415737 Email :Amit Jha Mobile No. : +919810146630 amitjha@chloridepower.co.in, MUMBAI: Apeejay Chambers, 5, Wallace Street, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001 Phone : 022-22058502 Suresh Chopra Mobile No. : +919819285745 Email : sureshpc@chloridepower.co.in, CHENNAI: Navin's Presidium, 'A' Block, 3th Floor,103 A, Nelson Manickam Road, Chennai - 600 029, Ph: 044 - 49075100, Fax: 044 - 49075126, R Prabakar Mobile No.: +919444073315 Email : rprabakar@chloridepower.co.in, For Solar enquiries Satyabrata Pattanayak Mobile No. : +91 9830440008 Email:satyabratap@chloridepower.co.in Website : www.chloridepowersystems.com, CENTRAL SERVICE: Partha Pratim Sahana Mobile No. : +919674163113 Email : sahanap@chloridepower.co.in,

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"This catalogue is issued to provide outline information only and should not be deemed to form part of an o�er or contract. As a process of continuous product improvement policy, the speci�cations are subject to change without prior notice.".

• Fully automatic operation as per schedule - Intervention of operator is not necessary

• Software controlled constant current/constant voltage charging• Multiple circuits in each cabinet (single circuit to 24 circuits in a single

panel)• Isolated DC output• Software can control and monitor multiple circuits from single PC• Flexibility to use either Microcontroller or PLC as per customer preference• Multistep programme with charging, discharging cyclic pulse and rest

functions• Components are intelligently placed for easy servicing and

maintenance• Wide Voltage range: 100V– 360V DC • Wide Current range : 3A – 600A• Operating Voltage : 10% to 100% of rated voltage• Data logging in monitoring PC• User friendly features (Abort, Jump in step/cycle/time, Error

viewing etc.)

Key Features

Graphical Home Screen Enables User Friendly Working Set up

Easy programming Report Display Window provides access to view, analyse or import/export data

• Input Power Supply : 415 Volt ±10%, 3 - Phase, 4 Wire, 50 Hz AC ±5%

• Output Voltage : 100V to 360V ( as per customer’s requirement)

• Output Current : 3A to 600A (as per customer’s requirement)

• Output ripple : Within 10% r m s at full load

• No. of Chennel/circuit : 1 to 24 (as per customer’s requirement)

• Mode of Operation : Automatic

• Termination of charging : Automatic (can be customized)

• Power Factor : 0.78 (displacement power factor at rated condition)

• Overall Efficiency : Approx 85% to 92% (at rated condition ; depends on the rating of the equipment)

Technical Specification

Chloride Formation Chargers in operation at Exide Hadia Factory