Operation and control of smart transformer-based electric vehicles charging system

Chandan Kumar, Giampaolo Buticchi, Marco Liserre

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    Abstract

    Integration of charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) will result in severe stress on electric grid. The EVs connected to the grid can also act as a source of energy and this demands greater control as well as coordination for better utilization. Conventional power transformers (CPTs) utilized in the EV charging stations are not well equipped for meeting these challenges. Recently, smart transformer (ST) has been proposed as an alternative to CPT. The ST connects medium voltage (MV) grid to low voltage (LV) grid with two intermediate MV and LV dc links. This paper utilizes the availability of the dc links of the ST to integrate the EVs charging station to electric grid rather than connecting these through the CPTs to the grid. A comprehensive analysis of sizing of the power converters utilized in the considered system has been presented. A comparison of efficiency for the different configurations is carried out and the possible more efficient scenario is suggested. Infact, the ST based EV charging system is found to be more efficient in comparison to CPT based EV charging station. The performance of ST based EV charging station is verified through simulation studies.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages4266-4271
    Number of pages6
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538611272
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2017
    Event43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017 - Beijing, China
    Duration: 29 Oct 20171 Nov 2017

    Publication series

    NameProceedings IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
    Volume2017-January

    Conference

    Conference43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2017
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityBeijing
    Period29/10/171/11/17

    Keywords

    • Electric vehicles
    • electric grid
    • smart transformer

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
    • Control and Optimization

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