Design of a Medium Voltage DC Fast Charging Station with Grid Voltage Regulation and Central Modular Multilevel Converter

Luis Camurca; Xiang Gao; Levy F. Costa; Marco Liserre

doi:10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557657

Design of a Medium Voltage DC Fast Charging Station with Grid Voltage Regulation and Central Modular Multilevel Converter

Luis Camurca, Xiang Gao, Levy F. Costa, Marco Liserre

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Abstract

Fast, Superfast and Hyperfast Charging Stations (FCS) are now a reality and will become even more common in the next few years. Their integration in the medium voltage grid will impose new challenges and developments not only in the power electronics application range, but also in the grid analysis and dynamics. This paper presents a FCS structure based on a central AC-DC bidirectional converter, which for this study is the modular multilevel converter (MMC), with ancillary services provision capability. To evaluate the integration of the FCS on a standard distribution grid, a study case is described, in which an analysis on how load variations connected to it may affect the voltage regulation and how the FCS can contribute to reduce this effect. Once the requirements for the converter design are defined from the study analysis, a cost/losses optimization for the medium level MMC is provided. Finally, with experimental results presented, the current and future set-ups are discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	2798-2804
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4799-7312-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557657
Publication status	Published - 6 Dec 2018
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018 - Portland, United States Duration: 23 Sept 2018 → 27 Sept 2018 Conference number: 10

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Conference	10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018
Abbreviated title	ECCE 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	23/09/18 → 27/09/18

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This paper was developed as part of research project RELINK [03ET7562B] funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and as part of project INTERREG from the European Union/Interreg V-A– Germany-Denmark, under PE:Region Project.

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Camurca, L, Gao, X, Costa, LF & Liserre, M 2018, Design of a Medium Voltage DC Fast Charging Station with Grid Voltage Regulation and Central Modular Multilevel Converter. in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)., 8557657, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 2798-2804, 10th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2018, Portland, United States, 23/09/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557657

Design of a Medium Voltage DC Fast Charging Station with Grid Voltage Regulation and Central Modular Multilevel Converter. / Camurca, Luis; Gao, Xiang; Costa, Levy F. et al.
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