Design and Application of a Power Unit to Use Plug-In Electric Vehicles as an Uninterruptible Power Supply

Gorkem Sen, Ali Rifat Boynuegri, Mehmet Uzunoglu, Ozan Erdinc and João P. S. Catalão
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Gorkem Sen: Department of Electronics and Automation, Ipsala Vocational School, Trakya University, Ipsala, Edirne 22400, Turkey
Ali Rifat Boynuegri: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electric-Electronics, Yildiz Technical University Davutpasa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Mehmet Uzunoglu: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electric-Electronics, Yildiz Technical University Davutpasa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
Ozan Erdinc: Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Electric-Electronics, Yildiz Technical University Davutpasa Campus, Esenler, Istanbul 34220, Turkey
João P. S. Catalão: Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores—Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), Inst. Super. Tecn., University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, Lisbon 1049-001, Portugal

Energies, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 1-17

Abstract: Grid-enabled vehicles (GEVs) such as plug-in electric vehicles present environmental and energy sustainability advantages compared to conventional vehicles. GEV runs solely on power generated by its own battery group, which supplies power to its electric motor. This battery group can be charged from external electric sources. Nowadays, the interaction of GEV with the power grid is unidirectional by the charging process. However, GEV can be operated bi-directionally by modifying its power unit. In such operating conditions, GEV can operate as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and satisfy a portion or the total energy demand of the consumption center independent from utility grid, which is known as vehicle-to-home (V2H). In this paper, a power unit is developed for GEVs in the laboratory to conduct simulation and experimental studies to test the performance of GEVs as a UPS unit in V2H mode at the time of need. The activation and deactivation of the power unit and islanding protection unit are examined when energy is interrupted.

Keywords: grid-enabled vehicles; distributed generation; plug-in electric vehicles; plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; vehicle-to-home; uninterruptible power supply (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: 2016
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