Subramaniam C-K

Department of Physics

School of Advanced Sciences

Vellore Campus

Vavilapalli S

Padmanaban S

Mihet-Popa L.

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Energies

Applied Energy

Three-stage control architecture for cascaded H-Bridge inverters in large-scale PV systems – Real time simulation validation

A PV-Simulator is a DC power source in which the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of different PV arrays can be programmed. With a PV-simulator, the operation of the solar power conditioning systems can be validated at a laboratory level itself before actual field trials. In this work, design, operation and controls for a two-stage programmable PV-simulator required for the testing of solar power conditioning systems are presented. The proposed PV-simulator consists of a three-level T-type active front-end converter in the first stage and a buck-chopper-based DC-DC converter in the second stage. An active front-end rectifier using a three-level T-type IGBT-based converter is used at the input stage to help in operating the system at unity power factor. A DC-DC converter at the output stage of the simulator is regulated to obtain the I-V characteristics of the programmed PV-Array. Hardware-In-Loop simulations are carried out to validate the proposed system and the associated controls implemented in the controller. As a case study, this PV-simulator is programmed with electrical parameters of a selected PV-array and the characteristics obtained from the PV-simulator are compared with the actual PV-array characteristics. The dynamic response of the system for sudden changes in the load and sudden changes in irradiance values are studied.

Design and Controller-In-Loop Simulations of a Low Cost Two-Stage PV-Simulator

Energy Procedia

A Buck-Chopper Based Energy Storage System for the Cascaded H-Bridge Inverters in PV Applications

The objective of this paper is to provide an uninterruptable power supply to the customers by selecting the supply from various reliable power sources such as solar photovoltaic, AC mains and battery storage systems. Initially, the load gets power supply from the reliable source (such as solar photovoltaic), if in case it is unavailable, then the proposed modules automatically switch over to the next reliable source (such as AC mains), and so on. If in case all proposed renewable energy sources (RESs) are unavailable than the proposed mod-ule automatically switch over to the local grid supply, if suppose the local grid supply is also unavailable then the proposed module au-tomatically switch over to the power storage bank. Therefore, the proposed intelligent/smart power module can improve the system per-formance and efficiency. The programming instruction of controller, the relay driver switches appropriate relay of sources to maintain uninterruptable power supply to the proposed utility of capacity 0.1kW. The proposed back-up system gets charged from the available reliable RESs with no pollution and noise, and it can also reduce the electricity bill. The proposed intelligent power module functions are displayed on LCD, it has been designed and analyzed in real time environment.

International Journal of Engineering & Technology

Design and implementation of smart uninterruptable power supply using battery storage and photovoltaic arrays

This paper proposes an intelligent battery management system (BMS) implementing two large Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB) flow batteries in a master-slave mode to provide grid-level energy storage for a wind-solar hybrid power system. The proposed BMS is formulated to effectively meet a predetermined power dispatch formulated based on forecasted wind and solar data while incorporating features like peak shaving and ramp rate limiting. It is compared to a single battery module operated system to showcase the advantages of the proposed intelligent dual battery module in terms of appreciable reduction in battery size and costs while exhibiting improved lifecycle performance. The battery size is optimized based on heuristic optimization algorithms and modelled in Matlab/Simulink environment. An intelligent fuzzy-based BMS is used to control the dual VRB model to ensure optimized power sharing between batteries. The simulations were carried out and an in-depth economic analysis conducted to analyze the costs and other financial metrics of the hybrid project. Results proved the advantages of the dual battery with the proposed BMS and fortify that the introduction of time-based tariffs and other incentives will further make investments in VRB highly attractive for renewable applications.

Intelligence-Based Battery Management and Economic Analysis of an Optimized Dual-Vanadium Redox Battery (VRB) for a Wind-PV Hybrid System

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

A comprehensive review on CHB MLI based PV inverter and feasibility study of CHB MLI based PV-STATCOM

Recent advances and challenges of fuel cell based power system architectures and control – A review

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Energy Management and Control System for Laboratory Scale Microgrid Based Wind-PV-Battery

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

A Digital Predictive Current-Mode Controller for a Single-Phase High-Frequency Transformer-Isolated Dual-Active Bridge DC-to-DC Converter

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Control of High-Energy High-Power Densities Storage Devices by Li-ion Battery and Supercapacitor for Fuel Cell/Photovoltaic Hybrid Power Plant for Autonomous System Applications

Power Balancing Control for Grid Energy Storage System in Photovoltaic Applications—Real Time Digital Simulation Implementation

Journal	Energies
Publisher	MDPI AG
Open Access	Yes