Enhancing power quality in electrical distribution systems using a smart charging architecture

Energy Informatics

Friederich Kupzog¹  Dominik Danner²  Hermann de Meer²  Ammar Alyousef² 

[1] AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria;University of Passau, Passau, Germany

关键词: Smart charging;    Power quality;    Electric vehicle charging;    Charging station;    Voltage control;    Traffic light model;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42162-018-0027-1

学科分类：计算机网络和通讯

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The electrification of the mobility sector comes with multiple challenges such as the lack of information on when, where, how long and how fast charging processes of electric vehicles will take place. In order to keep up with increasing power demand of charging processes, besides better predictions also the active control of charging processes will be necessary to minimize infrastructure costs. This work deals with a real-time mechanism for supporting the Power Quality (PQ) in electric distribution grids in terms of congestion and voltage management. In the paper, we propose a distributed smart charging approach that considers real-time conditions of the distribution grid provided by an event-driven architecture that collects data from different points in the grid. Our approach adopts the traffic light model, which allows smooth changing of the charging power to avoid drastic changes of the grid state. In order to be ready for real-world application, the algorithm is validated by a series of experiments on two setups: Pure software (co-)simulation and Power Hardware In the Loop (PHIL) where physical charging stations and electric cars are controlled in a laboratory setup.

【 授权许可】

CC BY