Hybrid Power System Intelligent Operation and Protection Involving Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Authors

Tan Ma, 3011389Follow

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Major/Program

Electrical Engineering

First Advisor's Name

Osama Mohammed

First Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Chair

Second Advisor's Name

Hai Deng

Second Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Third Advisor's Name

Armando Barreto

Third Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fourth Advisor's Name

Jean H. Andrian

Fourth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Fifth Advisor's Name

Berrin Tansel

Fifth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Sixth Advisor's Name

Walid Saad

Sixth Advisor's Committee Title

Committee Member

Keywords

hybrid power system, power electronics, renewable energy, plug-in electric vehicles, wireless communication, artifical intelligent, automation control

Date of Defense

4-2-2015

Abstract

Two key solutions to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and increase the overall energy efficiency are to maximize the utilization of renewable energy resources (RERs) to generate energy for load consumption and to shift to low or zero emission plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) for transportation. The present U.S. aging and overburdened power grid infrastructure is under a tremendous pressure to handle the issues involved in penetration of RERS and PEVs. The future power grid should be designed with for the effective utilization of distributed RERs and distributed generations to intelligently respond to varying customer demand including PEVs with high level of security, stability and reliability. This dissertation develops and verifies such a hybrid AC-DC power system. The system will operate in a distributed manner incorporating multiple components in both AC and DC styles and work in both grid-connected and islanding modes.

The verification was performed on a laboratory-based hybrid AC-DC power system testbed as hardware/software platform. In this system, RERs emulators together with their maximum power point tracking technology and power electronics converters were designed to test different energy harvesting algorithms. The Energy storage devices including lithium-ion batteries and ultra-capacitors were used to optimize the performance of the hybrid power system. A lithium-ion battery smart energy management system with thermal and state of charge self-balancing was proposed to protect the energy storage system. A grid connected DC PEVs parking garage emulator, with five lithium-ion batteries was also designed with the smart charging functions that can emulate the future vehicle-to-grid (V2G), vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-house (V2H) services. This includes grid voltage and frequency regulations, spinning reserves, micro grid islanding detection and energy resource support.

The results show successful integration of the developed techniques for control and energy management of future hybrid AC-DC power systems with high penetration of RERs and PEVs.

Identifier

FI15032175

Recommended Citation

Ma, Tan, "Hybrid Power System Intelligent Operation and Protection Involving Plug-in Electric Vehicles" (2015). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1760.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1760