Saravanan B

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering

Vellore Campus

Cherukuri S.H.C

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Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

The work presented in this article proposes a new energy management algorithm for hybrid micro grids consisting of higher penetration of DC non-critical (NC) loads and renewable energy sources. The methodology suggested in this work is a rule based approach and tries to make the micro grids more autonomous. During generation deficits in the micro grids, the suggested control strategy proposes to make the hybrid micro grids self-dependent to a possible extent, without the incorporation of actual storage devices. Instead of using actual storage elements like the batteries or super capacitors, the projected approach uses virtual storage devices, like the DC electric springs for its functionality. The electric springs used in this work operate the DC NC loads in accordance with the voltage produced by the renewable sources, which in turn reduces the power import from the main grid during generation deficits in the micro grid. Further, the work presented in the due course only studies about the efficiency of the proposed algorithm by operating the DC NC loads as per the requirement, without intervening with the AC and DC critical loads operation. In order to test the robustness of the proposed methodology a scaled down hybrid micro grid is developed in the laboratory using dSPACE 1104 real time interface. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems

Experimental evaluation of the performance of virtual storage units in hybrid micro grids

Journal of Energy Storage

Hybrid energy management strategy for residential consumers using virtual and actual storage systems

Day ahead scheduling of generation and storage in a microgrid considering demand Side management

2018 National Power Engineering Conference (NPEC)

A Novel DSM strategy for micro grids consisting of higher penetration of water heater loads

The work presented in this paper proposes a new Demand side management (DSM) algorithm for residential users having higher penetration of heating/resistive loads. The proposed algorithm uses electric springs to operate the non-critical loads in power saving mode, so as to reduce the daily peak, ramping and energy bill paid by the consumers. In order to implement the suggested methodology it is assumed that all the non-critical loads present in the residential complex are fitted with electric springs. The quantum of the power to be saved is completely left to the consumers and the customers are given full independence to choose the required percentage saving in power, which in turn reduces the electricity bill paid by them. Further it should be noted that the proposed energy management scheme re-shapes the entire load curve and achieves energy saving without shifting the non-critical appliances to off-peak timings, which is something new to the literature. The robustness of the suggested algorithm is tested by considering a 24 hour load curve of a residential user and the simulation studies of the same are performed in MATLAB. © 2017 IEEE.

2017 14th IEEE India Council International Conference, INDICON 2017

A New Demand Side Management Scheme for Residential Consumers using Electric Springs

Frontiers in Energy

An overview of selected topics in smart grids

DSM in an area consisting of residential, commercial and industrial load in smart grid

Nature Energy

Correlation of energy disorder and open-circuit voltage in hybrid perovskite solar cells

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Electric Springs for Reducing Power Imbalance in Three-Phase Power Systems

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Mitigating Voltage and Frequency Fluctuation in Microgrids Using Electric Springs

A novel energy management algorithm for reduction of main grid dependence in future smart grids using electric springs

Journal	Data powered by TypesetSustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments
Publisher	Data powered by TypesetElsevier BV
ISSN	2213-1388
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