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T. Dragičević

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Optimal Day-Ahead Scheduling of Fast EV Charging Station With Multi-Stage Battery Degradation Model

The paper proposes a day-ahead scheduling framework with a novel multi-stage battery degradation modeling method for an electric vehicle (EV) fast charging station (FCS) equipped with a battery energy storage system (BESS). Unlike previous studies, which employ a single battery degradation model to represent the aging process, this paper proposes a novel multi-stage battery degradation modeling method to accurately capture the degradation process across the whole lifespan. Subsequently, the multi-stage model is explicitly integrated into the proposed adaptive optimization framework in a computationally tractable way, thus having important practical implications in the field. The paper provides case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed modeling method on a selected cycle aging model in reducing the operation cost of FCS with BESS operating in different stages. As a result, the overall operation cost with the multi-stage model is around 2.1% on average lower than the single-stage model counterpart. In addition, results show that with the increasing number of divided stages, the model error decreases and becomes stable, while the reduced operation cost compared with the single-stage model increases and saturates. Finally, we apply the multi-stage framework considering other conventional degradation models to show the superiority of the proposed method.

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Data-Driven Approach for Accelerating Selective Harmonic Elimination Algorithm in Parallel Power Converters

Current ripple minimization is one of the challenges in parallel converters to increase the capacitor lifetime in various applications. In this paper, a deep neural network-based phase-shifting (PS) technique is proposed for parallel-connected buck converters to minimize the amplitude of a selective harmonic component and facilitate a classic optimum PS at the same time. The proposed method identifies the global optimum point in real time, without the need for complicated computations. The common-link current, common-link voltage, and the duty ratios are selected as the inputs of the neural network to provide the proper phase shifts for the switching signals. To accumulate the required dataset, a Different Start-Same Step (DSSS) technique is also introduced to generate the training data and test/validation data in a separate way. The effect of the number of hidden layers on the network output error is investigated, and a proper number of hidden layers is designed based on a compromise between accuracy and computation efficiency (and execution time). Experimental results prove that the proposed artificial neural network-based PS method preserves the performance of classic optimum PS and minimizing the implementation time significantly.

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