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Electricity, Volume 2, Issue 4

2021 December - 12 articles

Cover Story: The growing global electricity demand and the upcoming integration of charging options for electric vehicles is creating challenges for power grids. With continuously falling costs for lithium-ion batteries, storage systems represent an alternative to conventional grid reinforcement. This paper proposes a novel operation strategy for battery energy storage systems to achieve both an improvement in the distribution grid and savings for the industrial consumer. Information on the additional stress on the storage system is derived from a detailed analysis based on six key characteristics. The results show that, with the combined approach, both the local peak load and the global peak load can be reduced, while the stress on the energy storage is not significantly increased. View this paper
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,924 Views
39 Pages

Development of Planning and Operation Guidelines for Strategic Grid Planning of Urban Low-Voltage Grids with a New Supply Task

  • Patrick Wintzek,
  • Shawki Alsayed Ali,
  • Markus Zdrallek,
  • Julian Monscheidt and ,
  • Ben Gemsjäger and
  • Adam Slupinski
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 December 2021

In contrast to rural distribution grids, which are mostly “feed-in oriented” in terms of electrical power, urban distribution grids are “load oriented”, as the number of customer connections and density of loads in urban areas...

(This article belongs to the Collection Optimal Operation and Planning of Smart Power Distribution Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,624 Views
24 Pages

Parameterized 2D Field Model of a Switched Reluctance Motor

  • Krzysztof Bieńkowski,
  • Michał Szulborski,
  • Sebastian Łapczyński,
  • Łukasz Kolimas and
  • Hubert Cichecki

3 December 2021

This work aimed to develop a parameterized, two-dimensional field model of a switched reluctance motor (SRM). The main task of the developed model was to calculate the value of the electromagnetic torque for various positions of the rotor. Based on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
13,248 Views
17 Pages

15 November 2021

The growing global electricity demand and the upcoming integration of charging options for electric vehicles is creating challenges for power grids, such as line over loading. With continuously falling costs for lithium-ion batteries, storage systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,908 Views
19 Pages

Voltage Unbalance, Power Factor and Losses Optimization in Electrified Railways Using an Electronic Balancer

  • António P. Martins,
  • Pedro Rodrigues,
  • Mahmoud Hassan and
  • Vítor A. Morais

12 November 2021

Unbalanced currents, low power factor and high losses contribute to increasing the bill infrastructure managers must pay to the TSO/DSO operator that supplies electric energy to the railway system. Additionally, if regenerative energy coming from bra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electrical Engineering from EU-Funded Horizon 2020 Projects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,376 Views
30 Pages

5 November 2021

The inclusion of distributed energy resources (DER) in Microgrids (MGs) comes at the expense of increased changes in current direction and magnitude. In the autonomous mode of MG operation, the penetration of synchronous distributed generators (DGs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,741 Views
21 Pages

Optimization of 1D/3D Electro-Thermal Model for Liquid-Cooled Lithium-Ion Capacitor Module in High Power Applications

  • Danial Karimi,
  • Hamidreza Behi,
  • Mohsen Akbarzadeh,
  • Sahar Khaleghi and ,
  • Joeri Van Mierlo and
  • Maitane Berecibar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 November 2021

Lithium-ion capacitor technology (LiC) is well known for its higher power density compared to electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) and higher energy density compared to lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). However, the LiC technology is affected by a hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,417 Views
16 Pages

28 October 2021

Renewable sources on islands seem to be the most attractive option to decarbonize and lower the price of electricity; currently, most islands do so by replacing their diesel generators with wind or solar sources, along with energy storage. The Galapa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances toward Carbon-Neutral Power System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,502 Views
16 Pages

27 October 2021

Distributed solar photovoltaic generation is less expensive than the retail price of electricity from the grid in most parts of Europe. Growing shares of variable generation place a focus on Renewable Energy Communities (REC) to increase the economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,029 Views
12 Pages

Minimizing the Cost of PHEV Usage with Price Sensitive Charging Strategies

  • Dimitra Zarbouti,
  • Elisavet Koutsi,
  • Georgia Athanasiadou and
  • George Tsoulos

25 October 2021

Electric cars sales have been rising almost steadily over the past decade. Uncontrolled charging has recently emerged as the main detrimental factor to this otherwise environmentally friendly and paradigm shifting technology due to the incurred impac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electrical Engineering from EU-Funded Horizon 2020 Projects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,446 Views
20 Pages

11 October 2021

The object of this research was a self-resonated inverter, based on paralleled Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs), for high-frequency induction heating equipment, operating in a wide range of output powers, applicable for research and industr...

(This article belongs to the Topic Application of Innovative Power Electronic Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,971 Views
16 Pages

μPMU-Based Temporal Decoupling of Parameter and Measurement Gross Error Processing in DSSE

  • Rodrigo D. Trevizan,
  • Cody Ruben,
  • Aquiles Rossoni,
  • Surya C. Dhulipala and ,
  • Arturo Bretas and
  • Newton G. Bretas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 October 2021

Simultaneous real-time monitoring of measurement and parameter gross errors poses a great challenge to distribution system state estimation due to usually low measurement redundancy. This paper presents a gross error analysis framework, employing μPM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,199 Views
20 Pages

24 September 2021

The ambitious targets of the European Union (EU) for a greater penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) in all areas of activity have led to power systems with growing levels of variable RES (VRES) all over the EU. Considering these targets, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Electrical Engineering from EU-Funded Horizon 2020 Projects)
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