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ABSTRACT
In this work, a novel Solar Photo Voltaic (SPV) powered grid interactive Electric Vehicle (EV) battery charging system has been proposed and validated. The objective of the proposed system is to provide seamless battery charging facility that includes a high capacity station battery system. The grid interactions like integration of SPV energy, station battery charging and reactive power support are included through the DC link of aShunt Active Power Filter (SAPF). The SAPF maintains unity power factor on the source side grid current. The objectives of the proposed system are ensuring the source side power factor nearly unity with minimal THD of source current, an SPV grid integration system with Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), a comfortable charging point for EVs with a reliable charging station supported by a back up station battery. The novelty of the proposed work is that the common DC bus bar maintains a high DC link voltage when the utility source is available and the SAPF is active. The regulation of the DC link voltage is achieved by a PI controller tuned by the Gravitational Search Algorithm. The proposed system has been validated using simulations in the MATLAB SIMULINK environment as well using an experimental prototype. The proposed GSA controller outperforms in terms of THD (%) of source and load currents are 2.4 and 17.87, respectively.
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Ponarun Ramamoorthi
Ponarun Ramamoorthi received B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 2009. He then completed his M.E. Degree in Power Electronics and Drives from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 2011. Currently, he is working towards the Ph.D. degree under the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India in the area of renewable energy systems. He submitted Ph.D. thesis at Anna University, Chennai during February 2023 and waiting for viva voce examination. At present, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Theni Kammavar Sangam College of Technology, Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. He published 7 research articles in well reputed and refereed international journals indexed in SCIE, SCI, Web of Science & SCOPUS and with good impact factors. Also, he is serving as the potential reviewer for 2 international journals. His area of interest includes renewable energy systems, solar photovoltaic systems and power electronic converters.
Karthigaivel Ramasamy
Karthigaivel Ramasamy received his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Madurai Kamaraj University, India in 2001, and he received the Master of Technology Degree in Power system and Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in 2005 and 2012 respectively. He currently works as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, India. His field of interest is the design of power electronics controllers for Renewable Energy Sources, power system operation control, Electrical Vehicle and Machine Learning.
Suresh Muthusamy
Suresh Muthusamy received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering degree in Power Electronics and Drives during the year 2009 and 2011 from Anna University, Chennai and Anna University, Coimbatore respectively. He then completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai during the year 2023 in the area of hybrid renewable energy systems. He worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of EEE from June 2011 to January 2020, Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE from January 2020 to June 2020, Assistant Professor Senior Grade in the Department of ECE from June 2020 to June 2023 at Kongu Engineering College (Autonomous), Perundurai, Erode. From June 2023, he is working as Assistant Professor Senior Grade in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kongu Engineering College (Autonomous), Perundurai, Erode. He published more than 120 research articles in well reputed and refereed national/international journals from Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, SAGE publishers, ASME, ASTM International, MDPI, CRC Press, etc and indexed in SCI, SCIE, ESCI, Scopus and Web of Science with good impact factors. He presented several research articles in national & international conferences and also serving as the reviewer, editorial board member for about 75 international journals including International Journal of Energy Research-Wiley, IET Renewable Power Generation, IET Energy Systems integration-Wiley, IET Journal of Engineering, etc. He received 1275 google scholar citations with h-index of 21 and i-10 index of 38. To his credit, he has filed and published 28 Indian patents in IPR website, governed by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. His areas of interests include hybrid renewable energy systems, power electronic converters, hybrid electric vehicles, applications of deep learning & machine learning algorithms and battery management systems.
Janani Baskar
Janani Baskar received B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 2009. She then completed M.E. degree in Power Electronics and Drives from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 2011. At present, she is working as Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Theni Kammavar Sangam Polytechnic College, Theni, Tamil Nadu, India. Her area of interest includes power electronic converters, special electrical machines and renewable energy sources.