UK-China: Partners in Energy Research - An impact case study

Prof Kang Li*, Prof Yusheng Xue**

*Queens University Belfast, UK **State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, China 06/03/2014
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Outline
UK-China Science Bridge in Sustainable Energy and Built Environment
Strategic alliance with 14 leading Chinese Universities, Research Institutions and Industrial Partners (RCUK funded)

UK-China Smart Grids and Integration of Electric Vehicles iGIVE

- Jointly funded by EPSRC as part of the RCUK Energy Programme and NSFC

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UK-China Science Bridge - Engineering leaderships for tomorrow

Everyday provided new learning opportunities Language Differences Cultural Differences Food and Drink How to eat with chopsticks! Religion Educational Differences

Expected a total contrast, however a few similarities Education is very important Personal relationships make business relationships a lot easier Socialising is a key part of society Multicultural and very tolerant of foreigners

Trained 30 PhD students, 20 exchange PhD students, 11 Undergraduate students, and 4 research fellows.
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UK-China Science Bridge - Academic Engagements

30 invited lectures and seminars, 10 research training activities, 14 visiting professorships

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UK-China Science Bridge - Inform Policy Makers

Science Bridge partners were invited to a roundtable discussion with Dr Vince Cable about Science, Innovation and Business Growth held at the British Embassy in Beijing

Vice Premier LIU Yandong witnessed signing of agreements between Queen's and Chinese Scholarship Council, and met Science Bridge students

First and Deputy First Minsters of Northern Ireland visited Science Bridge Joint Laboratory on Autonomous Robotics in Shanghai Jiaotong

I was delighted to learn that Queen's University launched its Queen's Science Bridge Awards aiming to promote China-UK co-operation in sustainable energy and environmental conservation Mr Liu Xiaoming, Chinese Ambassador
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UK-China Science Bridge - Research Outcomes

Joint publications
200 150 100 50 0 partners journal conference

4 international conferences, 1 summer school, 1 UK-China Science Bridge Forum, 6 conference proceedings, 1 patent, 2 best paper awards
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UK-China Science Bridge - Joint laboratories

Joint Laboratory on Energy and Automation with Baosteel, SAIC, SHU Joint Laboratory on Autonomous Service Robots with Shanghai Jiaotong

Awarded 3 national and municipal prizes, including Shanghai Science and technology progress award Autonomous Wheelchair exhibited in Shanghai EXPO 2010
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UK-China Science Bridge - Knowledge Transfer

Intelligent optimized algorithms deployed in Shanghai Waigaoqiao & Caohejing power stations Wireless data acquisition deployed in Nantong sewage treatment company

Hybrid network measurement and monitoring system used in Baosteel

Technologies used in developing new SUPMAX series products by SAIC for energy and environment applications, used in many power plants across the world.
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UK-China Science Bridge - Knowledge Transfer

Crown cap surface detection systems for a Chinese company, detecting 280,000 caps/hour.

Low cost no-intrusive QUB energy efficiency monitoring system is prototyped for plastics industry. QUB structural health monitoring station at Hangzhou Bay Bridge

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Intelligent Grid Interfaced Vehicle Eco-charging (iGIVE)

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Traditional analysis of power systems are only for given boundary conditions, without considering impacts of external systems
Primary Energy Power Station Electric Power T & D Grids Electric Power Various kinds of Energy Demanding Side

Electricity flow
Impacts of primary energy
Given boundary conditions

Impacts of DS modes
Given boundary conditions
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Wide ARea Monitoring Analysis Protection-control Blackout defense system has widely deployed in China
It has been applied in State Grid, South Grid, East China

Grid and many province

grids, such as Jiangsu, Sichuan, Henan, Guangdong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, Xinjiang, Shanghai, Jiangxi and Zhejiang etc.
Dynamic early-warning

WAMS
Closeloop control

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However, impacts of relevant networks are neglected

Multi-Domain Interactions in Risk Management

Economic Systems Environment Systems Utilization

Physical Systems

Resource Systems
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Tasks of iGIVE

WP1) Framework of energy and information flows WP2) Power flow control-based battery model WP3) Bi-directional traction drive charging system WP4) Model for environment friendly EV charging

WP5) Optimal dispatching strategy for EV

WP6) Holistic system model for the impact of EV actors
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Interactions among EVs, Participator Behaviors and Power Grid

Decision
Lowcontrollable Groups Information Cost Cost Operating & HighMaintenance controllable Decision Groups Information Environment Air Gas Vehicle Gasoline Vehicle
Oil & Gas

Decision Industrial Sectors R&D

Information

Production

Market

After-sale Service

Scrapping

Capital Carmakers Information

User Decisions

Personal Transportation

Public Transportation

Hev

Others FCV, Etc. Battery Exchanging & Charging

Phev Bev

Costs

Area Soil & Water Others

Electricity Costs Electricity/Battery Information Decision Capital

Oil/Gas Costs Information

Oil/Gas

Constraints

Constraints

Government Capital Constraints PolicyLoad Fluctuation RES Makers Policy

Service Network Of Oil/Gas Stations

Battery Exchanging/Charging Service Network Power Generation

Battery Exchanging /Charging Service Providers

Power Supply Ancillary Service

Costs

Power Supply Ancillary Service

Power System

Information Capital
Grid Operators

Decision

Physical Flow Information Flow

Control Command Capital Flow

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Traffic Network & Distribution Grids

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Interactivity among Physics, Economics and Participants

External Org.

Big Users

Trans.Co.

Retailors

AncillaryCo.

Gen.Co.

PX

LSE

G
Decision

A
Decision Decision

B
Clear

R
Decision

D
Decision

U
Decision

O
Decision

Regulator

Policy & Rules

Economical Models of Power Market

Adequacy of Market Competition

Scenes & Probability

Economical Disturbances

Change of Power Appliances

ISO

Dispatch & Control

Physical Models of Power System

Physical Scenes & faults

Probability

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A Design for Smart Agents on EV-users Behavior

Knowledge Extraction from Limited-number Questionnaires for Agent Modeling

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Study on Agent Models

Questionnaires data Distribution of factors importance Distribution of each factors threshold Vehicle Inputting for verification parameters i=1 Decision of the ith agent i = i +1
Y

Modeling the agents

Verifying the models

i the total number of agents

N

Comparing the simulation results

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Simulation Verification
Comparisons of Multi-agent Simulations with Limited-number of Questionnaires
Number of the original questionnaire Percent of 200 150 The front 100 The back 100 purchase number Simul. with Checking Simul. with Checking Simul. with Checking Simul. with Checking 100000 question- 100000 question- 100000 question- 100000 questionagents naires agents naires agents naires agents naires EV type-1 EV type-2 EV type-3 EV type-4 100.00% 3.04% 7.12% 47.33% 100.00% 3.00% 6.50% 44.00% 100.00% 3.37% 7.12% 48.79% 100.00% 3.33% 6.67% 46.00% 100.00% 3.03% 8.66% 47.07% 100.00% 3.00% 8.00% 44.00% 100.00% 3.10% 5.44% 47.82% 100.00% 3.00% 5.00% 44.00%

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EVs significance for China

The external dependency of Chinas crude oil is close to 60% in 2013 EVs account for about 40% of Chinas oil consumption Transportation industry contributes 28% of carbon dioxide emissions in world-wide 25 Chinas cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai etc., have launched demonstration projects of one-thousand Evs The Strong & Smart Grid can promote the development of renewable energy and EVs, promote large-scale substitution of oil and improve energy security
0.5M EVs 2015

5M EVs

2020

EVs perspectives in China

Charging and swapping network planning energy, power for the Yangtze River Delta Area & intelligent control

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Implementation Project with Shanghai Municipal Electric Power Company (SMEPC)

16 charging/swapping stations and 1460 AC charging spots in Jiading district, Shanghai are under construction A pair of charging/swapping stations at service areas of the Shanghai-Hangzhou highway for city-interconnection in Yangtze River Delta Area An EV service company of SMEPC is in operation A management system for EV operations and a surveillance center for customer service, operation monitoring, asset management, and accounting management, etc. 50 charging/swapping stations and 5000 charging spots for planning 30-50 thousand EVs are expected
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Charging/Swapping Service Network in Shanghai Metropolis

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Caoxi Station of Microgrid Mode

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Jiading Anting Station - An integrated station for battery charging, swapping and storage

Personal EV charging system

Personal EV charging/swapping

Public EV charging/swapping system

1.25MW/2.25MWh Energy storages share facilities with battery energy, power charging/swapping, peak load shift, emergency power-supply

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Thanks

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