Design of a Power System Supervisory Control with Linear Optimization for Electrical Load Management in an Aircraft On-Board DC Microgrid

Luigi Rubino, Guido Rubino and Paolo Conti
Additional contact information
Luigi Rubino: Department of Engineering, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, CE, Italy
Guido Rubino: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering “Maurizio Scarano”, University of Cassino and South Lazio, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy
Paolo Conti: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering “Maurizio Scarano”, University of Cassino and South Lazio, Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino, FR, Italy

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-17

Abstract: In modern aircraft, energy supply management has become a critical matter, since many aboard electrical loads have to be supplied, especially those related to flight safety. However, at the same time, the size and weight of electrical generators must be limited because of their on-board installation. In this paper, the Mixed Integrated Linear Programming (MILP) methodology has been used to formulate the Supervisor definition of the direct current (DC) microgrid (MG) on-board system with an extension for the programmable loads. Due to the problem of dimension increase, two methods have been presented and tested to perform optimal energy management (EM) aboard an aircraft: the Branch and Bound (B&B) and the Linear Regression Approximation (LRA). Finally, numerical simulations and results have been provided to validate the proposed optimization methodologies, according to the dimensions and the complexity of the problem.

Keywords: DC microgrid; inverter controller; More Electric Aircraft; power management strategy; power system management; modeling; power sharing; MILP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8580/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/15/8580/ (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:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:15:p:8580-:d:606404

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

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