Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles
Existing DC fast-charging stations are experiencing power quality issues such as high harmonics in the line current, poor power factor in the input supply, and overloading of distribution transformers, due to the dynamic behavior of charging patterns when it is connected to the power grid. Most of t...
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| author | Kameswara Satya Prakash Oruganti Chockalingam Aravind Vaithilingam Gowthamraj Rajendran Ramasamy A |
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| description | Existing DC fast-charging stations are experiencing power quality issues such as high harmonics in the line current, poor power factor in the input supply, and overloading of distribution transformers, due to the dynamic behavior of charging patterns when it is connected to the power grid. Most of the recent works involve the usage of renewable energy sources to mitigate the issues on the distribution grid. In order to design a mobile plug and play DC fast charging station, solar energy is the best and viable solution to carry out. In this paper, plug and play solar photovoltaic power plant to charge electric vehicles (EVs) is proposed and modelled using MATLAB/Simulink software. The proposed system can act as a mobile power plant. The controller allows the system to charge the battery, whenever there is abundant solar energy. Incoming EVs will be charged directly from the system battery where the charger acts as a rapid charging system. The proposed system can meet the concept of Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS), which shows that 80% of charge can be fed to an EV in 10.25 min. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9908c660b7e4ffa8a593ce1a86be3022022-12-22T02:21:26ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732019-09-011218357910.3390/en12183579en12183579Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric VehiclesKameswara Satya Prakash Oruganti0Chockalingam Aravind Vaithilingam1Gowthamraj Rajendran2Ramasamy A3School of Engineering, Faculty of Innovation and Technology, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, No. 1, Jalan Taylor’s, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, MalaysiaSchool of Engineering, Faculty of Innovation and Technology, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, No. 1, Jalan Taylor’s, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, MalaysiaSchool of Engineering, Faculty of Innovation and Technology, Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus, No. 1, Jalan Taylor’s, Subang Jaya 47500, Selangor, MalaysiaInstitute of Power Engineering (IPE), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Kajang 43000, Selangor, MalaysiaExisting DC fast-charging stations are experiencing power quality issues such as high harmonics in the line current, poor power factor in the input supply, and overloading of distribution transformers, due to the dynamic behavior of charging patterns when it is connected to the power grid. Most of the recent works involve the usage of renewable energy sources to mitigate the issues on the distribution grid. In order to design a mobile plug and play DC fast charging station, solar energy is the best and viable solution to carry out. In this paper, plug and play solar photovoltaic power plant to charge electric vehicles (EVs) is proposed and modelled using MATLAB/Simulink software. The proposed system can act as a mobile power plant. The controller allows the system to charge the battery, whenever there is abundant solar energy. Incoming EVs will be charged directly from the system battery where the charger acts as a rapid charging system. The proposed system can meet the concept of Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS), which shows that 80% of charge can be fed to an EV in 10.25 min.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3579Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS)plug and play DERmobile power plantPV based charging Station (PVCS)Vehicle to Vehicle power transfer (V2V)Photovoltaic based charging station (PV-EV) |
| spellingShingle | Kameswara Satya Prakash Oruganti Chockalingam Aravind Vaithilingam Gowthamraj Rajendran Ramasamy A Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles Energies Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS) plug and play DER mobile power plant PV based charging Station (PVCS) Vehicle to Vehicle power transfer (V2V) Photovoltaic based charging station (PV-EV) |
| title | Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles |
| title_full | Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles |
| title_fullStr | Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles |
| title_short | Design and Sizing of Mobile Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant to Support Rapid Charging for Electric Vehicles |
| title_sort | design and sizing of mobile solar photovoltaic power plant to support rapid charging for electric vehicles |
| topic | Solar Photovoltaic Rapid Charging Stations (SPRCS) plug and play DER mobile power plant PV based charging Station (PVCS) Vehicle to Vehicle power transfer (V2V) Photovoltaic based charging station (PV-EV) |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/18/3579 |
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