A low voltage DC power electronic hub to support buildings

Michael Starke; Bailu Xiao; Madhu Chinthavali

doi:10.1109/ICDCM50975.2021.9504674

A low voltage DC power electronic hub to support buildings

Michael Starke, Bailu Xiao, Madhu Chinthavali

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Abstract

This paper presents the communication, control, and architecture, for a low voltage (nominal 480V) hybrid AC/DC microgrid for supporting small commercial buildings with critical data center loads. The proposed system is based on a DC-power electronic hub (PEH) that seamlessly integrates renewable energy resources, energy storage, and back-up generation to support commercial building economical energy management and reliability. This PEH concept provides a parallelization of critical power to the commercial and industrial buildings leading to increased efficiency and reliability compared to traditional uninterruptable power supplies. The demonstration of the proposed PEH architecture and controls is conducted through a controller hardware in the loop validation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728186412
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCM50975.2021.9504674
State	Published - Jul 18 2021
Event	4th IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021 - Arlington, United States Duration: Jul 18 2021 → Jul 21 2021

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Name	2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021

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Conference	4th IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Arlington
Period	07/18/21 → 07/21/21

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Notice: This manuscript has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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Keywords

Ac microgrid
DC microgrid
Plug-and-play
Power electronic hub
Power electronics

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Starke, M, Xiao, B & Chinthavali, M 2021, A low voltage DC power electronic hub to support buildings. in 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021. 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 4th IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021, Arlington, United States, 07/18/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCM50975.2021.9504674

A low voltage DC power electronic hub to support buildings. / Starke, Michael; Xiao, Bailu; Chinthavali, Madhu.
2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. (2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on DC Microgrids, ICDCM 2021).

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