{"title":"Modeling, Control and Prototyping of a Highly Integrated Battery-Ultracapacitor System for Microgrids","authors":"A. Serpi, M. Porru","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591219","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A Highly-Integrated Battery-UltraCapacitor system (HIBUC) is presented in this paper. It consists of a battery pack and an ultracapacitor module, which are coupled to each other through a three-level neutral-point-clamped converter. The latter is connected to the point of common coupling between a microgrid and the main electric grid through a step-up transformer, which enables lower DC-link voltage rating and, thus, eases HIBUC prototyping without affecting its performances significantly. The DC-link is also connected to a dissipative voltage regulator, which has been designed with the dual purpose of preventing DC-link overvoltage and improving DC-link voltage regulation simultaneously. The effectiveness of the proposed configuration has been verified through a simulation study, which has been carried out in the Matlab-Simulink environment and refers to different HIBUC operating conditions.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"24 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591219","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A Highly-Integrated Battery-UltraCapacitor system (HIBUC) is presented in this paper. It consists of a battery pack and an ultracapacitor module, which are coupled to each other through a three-level neutral-point-clamped converter. The latter is connected to the point of common coupling between a microgrid and the main electric grid through a step-up transformer, which enables lower DC-link voltage rating and, thus, eases HIBUC prototyping without affecting its performances significantly. The DC-link is also connected to a dissipative voltage regulator, which has been designed with the dual purpose of preventing DC-link overvoltage and improving DC-link voltage regulation simultaneously. The effectiveness of the proposed configuration has been verified through a simulation study, which has been carried out in the Matlab-Simulink environment and refers to different HIBUC operating conditions.