Research
Research Project:
PI: An Intelligent Wind/Solar Microgrid with Wide Bandgap Multiport Converter, the Xcel Energy, Inc, $600,634 Oct., 2017 - Nov., 2020
Research Topics:
Two-stage power decoupling control for Photovoltaic inverter: Using film capacitors only to achieve power decoupling for PV system.
Multiport GaN converter for renewable energy integration: Developing various GaN multiport converter for hybrid wind, solar, battery, and microgrid system.
Power management of Hybrid wind, photovoltaic, and battery System: Modeling and control of power converter for microgrid applications.
Intelligent control for a Microgrid grid system: Decentralized control.
Equipment & Facility
1. Voltage sources
Programmable 18 kVA Power Source (1/3 phase Chroma 61512-220)
2 programmable Single Output DC Power Supply, 600V/8.5A
6 DC power supplies (42 V/10A)
2. Measurement & data collection
Lecroy oscilloscope (Waverunner 8104): 1 GHz, 20GS/s, 4Ch, 16 Mpts/Ch
High resolution Lecroy oscilloscope (HDO6104A-MS 4+16 Ch, 50Mpts/Ch) equipped with Power Analysis and spectrum analysis blockset
Arduino wireless data collection and transmission board
High speed current probe (N2782B: 50 MHz, 30Arms)
Current probes (20 kHz) AC/DC 1-100A + differential voltage probes
3. Hardware-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-code
Two dspace (1104) and motor drives
MicroLabBox dSpace equipped with RTI Motor control blockset
eZdsp F28335 and eZdsp F2812 control boards
4. Renewable energy sources
600W horizontal wind turbine + anemometers
Two 500W solar panels (in progress)
Two PV simulators (PVS60085MR)
A 500W wind turbine simulator (built with two gamut motors)
5. Power Electronics Converters
1 kW Buck, Boost Converter
Four-port (Bidirectional) DC-DC Converter
H-Bridge Inverter
Two-stage Power Decoupling Photovoltaic Inverter