A Bidirectional Electrical Vehicle Charger and Grid Interface for Grid Voltage Dip Mitigation

Osama Saadeh, Anwar Al Nawasrah and Zakariya Dalala
Additional contact information
Osama Saadeh: Department of Energy Engineering, German Jordanian University, Amman 11180, Jordan
Anwar Al Nawasrah: Department of Energy Engineering, German Jordanian University, Amman 11180, Jordan
Zakariya Dalala: Department of Energy Engineering, German Jordanian University, Amman 11180, Jordan

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-22

Abstract: Power quality issues have recently become a source of major concern due to the large increase in load demand and the addition of various sources of disturbance at the distribution level. Power quality mainly refers to voltage quality. Sudden load variations can lead to a fall in the line voltage magnitude, creating what is called a voltage sag. Many solutions have been proposed and implemented for voltage sag compensation. Power electronics-based solutions such as grid-connected converters and AC/DC schemes are considered basic units for transient voltage fault ride-through capability. This paper describes a multifunctional intelligent bidirectional electrical vehicle (EV) charger that is able to charge the EV battery at different power ratings in addition to voltage sag compensation. The performance of the proposed system is verified and validated through MATLAB/Simulink simulations (R2020A). The proposed solution can effectively meet three main requirements: charging the EV battery at different power ratings, detecting the voltage sag event, and providing the required active and reactive power compensation for voltage sag compensation.

Keywords: power quality; electrical vehicle interface; voltage dip; power compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3784/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3784/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:13:y:2020:i:15:p:3784-:d:388719

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().