Abstract
The growth in load and generation sources at the edge of the grid is driving the innovation in power electronic (PE) grid interfaces at the consumer end to improve the grid resiliency, reliability, security, and cost of the future infrastructure. Novel PE technologies are key enablers for the future grid infrastructure to handle the issues that arise because of the projected growth. This paper introduces a novel fundamental building block (FBB) architecture with plug-and play features. An example framework that enables co-ordination of multiple FBBs hierarchically to provide various grid functions is also presented. The FBBs are designed to be equipped with advanced features like online health monitoring, embedded intelligence, and decision-making capability for enhancing the metrics of consumer end plug and play interfaces. The paper elaborates on the proposed architecture and the developed framework i.e., the controls, communication, protection, and the corresponding timing requirements for the building blocks. The architecture and the framework have been validated through simulations and the communication framework has been validated with a control hardware in the loop platform.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2021 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 2105-2112 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728189499 |
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| State | Published - Jun 14 2021 |
| Event | 36th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Jun 14 2021 → Jun 17 2021 |
Publication series
| Name | Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC |
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Conference
| Conference | 36th Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2021 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Virtual, Online |
| Period | 06/14/21 → 06/17/21 |
Funding
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). This project was supported by the Department of Energy (DOE) - Office of Electricity’s (OE), Transformer Resilience and Advanced Components (TRAC) program led by the program manager Andre Pereira.
Keywords
- Advanced power electronic (PE) interfaces
- And interoperable systems
- Control architecture
- Converter architectures
- Fundamental building blocks
- Grid modernization
- Hierarchical control and coordination