Title: Design, simulation and analysis of solar electric vehicle charging station

Authors: Abdeali A. Challawala; Manisha T. Shah

Addresses: Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad – 382481, India ' Electrical Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad – 382481, India

Abstract: Integration of a photovoltaic (PV) system into an electric vehicle charging infrastructure is an effective solution for reducing carbon footprint. The proposed charging station is equipped with a solar system to charge three distinct types of EV batteries. Modified incremental conduction algorithm is implemented to extract maximum power from the PV panel. If the generation from PV is more than excessive power, it can be sent back to the grid. This increases the grid's stability during high load demand. In this paper, power balancing between the solar PV system, grid, and battery chargers has been achieved during the different charging conditions. Due to the insertion of many power electronics converters, the grid current is distorted and offers a low power factor. In the proposed work overall control technique is developed to maintain an almost unity power factor and total harmonic distortion is under the limit given by IEEE Standard 519-2014.

Keywords: constant current constant voltage; CCCV method; electric vehicle; grid tied inverter; maximum power point tracking; MPPT; power balancing; renewable energy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPELEC.2024.137831

International Journal of Power Electronics, 2024 Vol.19 No.3/4, pp.302 - 338

Received: 29 Jul 2022
Accepted: 06 Apr 2023
Published online: 05 Apr 2024 *

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