Centralized control of parallel connected power conditioning system in electric vehicle charge–discharge and storage integration station

Abstract

This study presents a centralized control scheme that coordinates parallel operations of power conditioning system (PCS) for the grid interactions of electric vehicles (EVs) in EV charge–discharge and storage integration station. Key issues for the control and operation of PCS under various operation modes are discussed, including vehicle to grid (V2G) mode, stand-alone mode and seamless transfer mode. The intelligent multi-mode charge–discharge method is utilized for the V2G mode, and the parallel control method based on communication network is adopted for the stand-alone mode. In addition, a novel seamless transfer strategy is proposed, which is able to implement PCS transition between V2G mode and stand-alone mode. The detailed process of the seamless transfer between the two modes is illustrated. Experimental results are presented to show the performance and feasibility of this strategy.