Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/20916

TitleAssessment of a battery charger for electric vehicles with reactive power control
Author(s)Monteiro, Vítor Duarte Fernandes
Pinto, J. G.
Exposto, Bruno Fernandes
Gonçalves, Henrique
Ferreira, João C.
Couto, Carlos
Afonso, João L.
KeywordsBattery charger
Electric vehicles
Reactive power control
V2G
Power quality
Issue date25-Oct-2012
PublisherIEEE
JournalIEEE Open Journal of the Industrial Electronics Society
Abstract(s)Batteries of Electric Vehicles (EVs) and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have a large potential not only to provide energy for the locomotion of these vehicles, but also to interact, in dynamic way, with the power grid. Thereby, through the energy stored in the batteries, these vehicles can be used to regulate the active and the reactive power, as local Energy Storage Systems. This way, EVs can contribute to help the power grid to regulate the active and reactive power flow in order to stabilize the production and consumption of energy. For this propose should be defined usage profiles, controlled by a collaborative broker, taking into account the requirements of the power grid and the conveniences of the vehicle user. Besides, the interface between the power grid and the EVs, instead of using typical power converters that only work on unidirectional mode, need to use bidirectional power converters to charge the batteries (G2V - Grid-to-Vehicle mode) and to deliver part of the stored energy in the batteries back to the power grid (V2G - Vehicle-to-Grid mode). With the bidirectional power converter topology presented in this paper, the consumed current is sinusoidal and it is possible to regulate the power factor to control the reactive power, aiming to contribute to mitigate power quality problems in the power grid. To assess the behavior of the presented bidirectional power converter under different scenarios, are presented some computer simulations and experimental results obtained with a prototype that was developed to be integrated in an Electric Vehicle.
TypeConference paper
URIhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/20916
ISBN978-1-4673-2420-5
DOI10.1109/IECON.2012.6389554
ISSN1553-572X
Peer-Reviewedyes
AccessOpen access
Appears in Collections:CAlg - Artigos em livros de atas/Papers in proceedings
DEI - Artigos em atas de congressos internacionais

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