Committee Chair

Eltom, Ahmed H.

Committee Member

Ofoli, Abdul R.; Sisworahardjo, Nurhidajat

Department

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of the electric vehicles (EVs’) battery charging on the distribution system in terms of maximum voltage deviation, voltage unbalance at various locations, transformers overloading, and introducing new peaks into the system. In this research, a 12.47 kV real distribution network has been modeled using real time digital simulator, using real data from a power distributor. The study presents four different scenarios of uncoordinated EVs integration for two different charging times (evening and night) and two different charging rates (level I and level II) at different penetration levels ranging from 10% to 100%. Voltage unbalance at different locations is determined and transformer overloading is analyzed. The influence of EVs charging on the daily load curve is shown. It is noted that actual system data of voltage and current at all intellirupters of the utility distribution system were close to the data of the simulated system.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

12-2013

Subject

Electric automobiles

Keyword

Distribution systems; Electric vehicles; Real-time simulations; Transformer overloads; Voltage imbalances

Discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

xiv, 70 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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