converters for Smart Energy Grids Phuong H. Nguyen - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Applications of AC/DC converters for Smart Energy Grids Phuong H. Nguyen p.nguyen.hong@tue.nl Smart Energy Grids (SEG) Processing burden information Controlling properly at the right moment (real-time control) Balancing supply-demand at all
Smart Energy Grids (SEG)
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Processing burden information Controlling properly at the right moment (real-time control) Balancing supply-demand at all times (reliable operation)
Smart Energy Grids (SEG)
- Need for…
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Centralized control Control effort Transmission system Distribution system Distribution system Current situation Decentralized control
Applications of AC/DC converter
I. Re-routing power flows
EOS – EIT project
II. Balancing local power supply-demand
TKI Switch2SmartGrids – PVSiMS project
- III. Regulating voltage variations
FP7 – INCREASE project
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I – Re-routing Power Flows
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Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF)
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/gas_electricity/smartgrids/doc/xpert_group3_summary.pdf
I – Re-routing Power Flows
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Moderator agent PFC
Multi-Agent System platform Cell Cell Smart Power Router …... Cell …... …...
Distributed routing algorithms
I – Re-routing Power Flows
- Distributed and Stochastic Optimal Power Flow
- Power system → Directed graph G(V, E)
- Optimal Power Flow → Minimum Cost Flow
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P.H. Nguyen, W.L. Kling, and J.M.A. Myrzik, “An application of the successive shortest path algorithm to manage power in multi-agent system based active networks,” European Transactions on Electrical Power, 20(8), 1138-1152, 2010.
I – Re-routing Power Flows
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5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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5 10 15 Simulation time [s] Power generation [MW] Pgen1 Pgen3 Pgen5 Pgen16 Pgen18 Pgen20 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
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5 10 15 Simulation time [s] Power flows [MW] P23 P56 P1112 P1020
HV MV 1 11 2 12 3 13 4 14 5 15 6 16 7 17 8 18 9 19 10 20 NOP
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 100 200 300 400 Simulation time [s] Total operating cost [p.u.] Total generation cost Total transmission cost
Event occurs Start power routing
I – Re-routing Power Flows
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Main source Multi Agent System Fix load Programmable load WT emulator Inverter system
I – Re-routing Power Flows
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20 40 60 80 100 120 750 1500 2250 3000 time, sec. Inverter 1 - P, W 20 40 60 80 100 120
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250 500 time, sec. Inverter 3 - P, W
P.H. Nguyen, W.L. Kling, and P.F. Ribeiro, “Smart power router: a flexible agent-based converter interface in active distribution networks,” IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids, 2(3), 487-495, 2012.
II – Balancing local supply-demand
- TKI Switch2SmartGrids – PVSiMS project
- Better matching of supply and demand with:
− New technology for electricity storage and advanced control system − New business relationships between electricity consumers, producers, and grid
- perators.
- Partners:
− Mastervolt − TU Eindhoven − Alliander − AmsterdamSmartCity − Greenspread InEnergie
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II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Residential Energy Storage – Hardware
- Components:
− Li-Ion battery: 5 – 10 kWh − PV Inverter − Combi (Mastervolt):
- Battery charger
- Power flow management
- Monitoring and communication device
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II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Residential Energy Storage – Inverter
- Interoperable with all the inverters
- Current Inverter used: Mastervolt ES4.6LT
− Inverter’s Specifications:
- Battery charger
- Transormless
- Nominal Power: 4600VA
- Grid Voltage 230V +15%/-20%
- Power factor: > 0.99
- Reactive power control: -0.90 inductive / +0.90 capacitive
- Standby power: < 1 W
- EU efficiency: 97.0 %
- Max. efficiency: 97.5 %
- AC connection: Amphenol IP67 connector, suitable for 4-6 mm² cables
- Efficiency MPP trackers (static/dynamic): 99.9 % / 99.8 %
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II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Smart Grid requires novel
control methods: Market- Based Control (MBC)
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- Rational behavior in the
market: Intelligent software agents
- PV SiMS: Optimization of
residential energy storage coupled with PV generation
II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Coordinating DERs by establishing a local energy
market
- Local market area definition: geographical area under one
balance responsible party (ETSO-e).
- Main benefits:
− Local consumption of local renewable energy production. − Market-based techniques achieve good system-wide properties despite of self-interested participants − Bids act as abstraction of technical characteristics of components. − Solving local knowledge problem.
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II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Benefits of S-PV units in the context of a local
energy market
- DSO: mitigation of intermittent nature of PV generation through
storage, market integration of distributed energy resources, possibility of using districts as VPPs for e.g. ancillary services.
- Aggregator: Storage offers flexibility for realizing VPP business
cases.
- Prosumer: Maximization of self-consumption of PV generated
electricity, minimizing electricity bill, participate in the reduction of CO2 emissions.
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II – Balancing local supply-demand
- Research areas for PV SiMS project:
- Local energy market design for the presence of S-PV units.
- Machine learning techniques for consumption and generation
forecasting.
- Individual device agent design.
- Multi-agent system design.
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- FP7 – INCREASE project: INCreasing the penetration
- f Renewable Energy sources in the distribution grid by
developing control strategies and using Ancillary SErvices
- 13 partners – 4 different coutries
- Request EC budget: 3 m€
- Duration: Sept. 2013 – Dec. 2016
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- Main role of TU/e
- Development of voltage mitigation algorithm
- Agent based coordinative control
- Validation
− Simulation − Lab test − Field Trials
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- INCREASE’s proposed solutions
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- Different control strategies in INCREASE
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Type of control Location Response time Local control Inverter terminals ms Fast control Agent Minutes scale Slow control Higher level Agent Hours scale
III – Regulating voltage variations
- Voltage unbalance
- The voltage unbalance
can be solved using a combination of:
− Three-phase damping control strategy for three- phase grid connected DRES − Single-phase DRES with included droop properties and controlled by MAS
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- Droop control for voltage variation
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- MAS – fast control actions
Δ𝑄 Δ𝑅 = 𝐾1 𝐾2 𝐾3 𝐾4 ΔƟ Δ𝑊
− Assuming no reactive power control and Power Factor =1 Δ𝑄 = 𝐾2 − 𝐾1 𝐾3
−1𝐾4 [Δ𝑊]
𝑇𝑓𝑜𝑡𝑗𝑢𝑗𝑤𝑗𝑢𝑧 𝑁𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑗𝑦 = 𝐾2 − 𝐾1 𝐾3
−1𝐾4 −1
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III – Regulating voltage variations
- MAS – fast control actions
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M A1 A2 An
ΔV =0.1 pu RFP - ΔP Sensitivity factor calculation ΔP1 , cost ΔP2 , cost ΔPn , cost Dispatching computation ΔPnew 1 ΔPnew 2 ΔPnew n
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Vmax = 1.05 p.u =241.5 V ; Ideal inverter
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Time (15 mins block) Volatage ph-N (V)
Original Voltage Bus 2-OVB 2 OVB 3 OVB 4 OVB 5 OVB 6 Controlled Voltage Bus 2-CVB 2 CVB 3 CVB 4 CVB 5 CVB 6
Conclusions
- Smart Energy Grids – High uncertainty
- Needs of
- Smart power electronic interfaces
- Distributed intelligence
- Smart integration framework
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Thank you!
p.nguyen.hong@tue.nl