Low cost power quality measuring unit for household usage and small to enterprise scale installations: Designing a Low Cost Power Quality Analyzer

The increase in non-linear loads of modern electronics raises concerns over power quality. Additionally, existing power-quality analyzers are expensive and not intended for household use. This thesis aims to develop a single-phase, user-friendly power-quality analyzer using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with an emphasis on low cost and class S...

Designing Software for User-Friendly Class-S Power Quality Analyzer based on Raspberry Pi

This thesis describes the design of a low-cost class-S power quality analyzer based on a Raspberry Pi 4. Capable of detecting power frequency, magnitude, voltage dips and swells, harmonics, and total harmonic distortion, the project consists of four main components: the communication protocol, the interface, the algorithms for power quality...

Grid Integration of Offshore Wind Power: Standards, Control, Power Quality and Transmission

Offshore wind is expected to be a major player in the global efforts toward decarbonization, leading to exceptional changes in modern power systems. Understanding the impacts and capabilities of the relatively new and uniquely positioned assets in grids with high integration levels of inverter-based resources, however, is lacking, raising...

Analysis and Modeling of the Hybrid Vessel's Electrical Power System: A study on Power Quality, Short-Circuit Currents and Protection & Coordination

Zero emission fuels and reducing emissions are important topics in all transport sectors and hybrid systems play a key role in the transition towards full decarbonization. This thesis studies the components that are found in hybrid maritime electrical power systems and their influence on power...

A Gradient-Descent Optimization Assisted Gray-Box Impedance Modeling of EV chargers

Extracting an electric vehicle (EV) charger's input impedance with the analytical model (white-box approach) or the frequency sweep (black-box approach) is limited by the parameter confidentiality or the measurement noise, respectively. To overcome these challenges, a gradient-descent (GD) optimization-based gray-box modeling approach is...

Review on islanding detection methods for grid-connected photovoltaic systems, existing limitations and future insights

The connection of renewable energy sources (RESs) to the distribution network has been rising at a steady pace over the past decades. The great penetration of RESs such as grid-connected photovoltaic system brings new technical challenges to the distribution networks such as unintentional islanding. Conceptually, this situation occurs when a...

Review on Power Quality Issues in EV Charging

Electric vehicles (EVs) are playing a crucial role in achieving the carbon neutral goal. To make the charging experience comparable with the refueling of the gasoline cars, more and more chargers are installed and connected to the grid. Meanwhile, the charging power is going up. As a result, more and more power quality issues associated with EV...

Grid Impact of Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Stations: Trends, Standards, Issues and Mitigation Measures - An Overview

With growing concern on climate change, widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is important. One of the main barriers to EV acceptance is range anxiety, which can be alleviated by fast charging (FC). The main technology constraints for enabling FC consist of high-charging-rate batteries, high-power-charging infrastructure, and grid...

Multi-timescale Modeling of Fast Charging Stations for Power Quality Analysis

To accurately simulate the harmonic emission of EV DC fast chargers (DCFCs) and the harmonic voltage of the power grid to which the chargers are connected, a small time-step, i.e., typically smaller than 10μs, is required. However, for harmonic assessment, a long timescale, typically a day, is required. A conflict between accuracy and time...

Python Supervised Co-simulation for A Day-long Harmonic Evaluation of EV Charging

To accurately simulate electric vehicle DC fast chargers' (DCFCs') harmonic emission, a small time step, i.e., typically smaller than 10 μs, is required owing to switching dynamics. However, in practice, harmonics should be continuously assessed with a long duration, e.g., a day. A trade-off between accuracy and time efficiency thus exists. To...

Modeling and validation of the Flex Power Grid Laboratory

The increasing penetration of dispersed generation changes the way in which distribution grids are comprised. The impact of the introduction of grid-connected distributed energy resources is expected to receive growing attention in the near future. Power electronic equipment is now indispensable part of the electricity generation and...

Grid support by power electronic converters of distributed generation units

An increasing number of small Distributed Generation (DG) units are connected to the grid. The introduction of DG causes several problems, which are mainly related to the differences between DG units and conventional generators. Four problems have been considered in this thesis: damping of harmonics, voltage control, the behaviour of DG units...