Component Design, Development, and Demonstration of a Medium Voltage DC Multiport Power Electronics Energy Hub
Project description
The electrification of heavy-duty transportation imposes technical and economic challenges to the grid infrastructure. In this context, the power electronic energy hub has emerged as an energy conversion system integrating on-site generation and energy storage systems. This enables the aggregated charging demand to be met anytime, minimizing the peak power provided by the grid. In practical terms, the high-frequency multi-winding transformer-based DC-DC converter has been proposed in the literature to integrate various energy sources and loads efficiently.
The goals of the projects are the following:
- To ideate an energy hub architecture to recharge heavy-duty electric vehicles, integrating on-site generation and energy storage systems.
- To design and model a power electronics building block (PEBB) for conceiving a solid-state transformer to handle the energy interchanges.
- To construct a 100-kW demonstrator for the PEBB.
- To experimentally validate the prototype emulating a heavy-duty charging station.
PhD candidate:
Felipe Calderón Rivera, F.A.CalderonRivera@tudelft.nl.
Supervisor:
Dr. Sebastián Rivera Iunnissi, S.Rivera@tudelft.nl.
Promotor:
Prof.dr. Pavol Bauer, P.Bauer@tudelft.nl.
Funded by:
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands.