TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable, Portable, and Efficient Electricity Delivery (SPEED)
T2 - Design, Control, and Testing
AU - Liyanage, Sanka
AU - Wang, Yeqin
AU - Dong, Yiting
AU - Ren, Beibei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - During emergencies or natural disasters, or at remote areas, the main electrical grid might be damaged or not accessible, therefore, a sustainable electricity generation is critical for human survivals or other electricity needs. This paper presents a sustainable, portable, and efficient electricity delivery (SPEED) system for community emergency, disaster relief, and power supply at remote areas. A demonstrated system with utility-level AC power output is built up with a 180 W photovoltaics (PV) array which consists of six serial-connected solar panels, a 1.8 kWh battery pack, a SYNDEM power converter, and a data monitoring subsystem. The autonomous operation of the system is achieved by advanced control technologies for power electronic converters in both islanded mode and grid-connected mode, while providing the overcharging and overdischarging protections of the battery pack. Field testing is conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed SPEED system under different scenarios.
AB - During emergencies or natural disasters, or at remote areas, the main electrical grid might be damaged or not accessible, therefore, a sustainable electricity generation is critical for human survivals or other electricity needs. This paper presents a sustainable, portable, and efficient electricity delivery (SPEED) system for community emergency, disaster relief, and power supply at remote areas. A demonstrated system with utility-level AC power output is built up with a 180 W photovoltaics (PV) array which consists of six serial-connected solar panels, a 1.8 kWh battery pack, a SYNDEM power converter, and a data monitoring subsystem. The autonomous operation of the system is achieved by advanced control technologies for power electronic converters in both islanded mode and grid-connected mode, while providing the overcharging and overdischarging protections of the battery pack. Field testing is conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed SPEED system under different scenarios.
KW - Sustainable portable electricity
KW - battery protections
KW - emergency/disaster relief
KW - power electronics control
KW - solar energy
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U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2987556
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2987556
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084367648
VL - 8
SP - 73082
EP - 73095
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
SN - 2169-3536
M1 - 9064565
ER -