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I. INTRODUCTION
ITH increased awareness of the depletion of traditional
W energy sources and environmental damage caused by
increased carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power gen-
eration, the use of renewable energy has become the goal for
energy development. Current green energy used in power gener- Fig. 1. Configuration of the proposed dc microgrid system with EMS.
ation includes: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and tidal [1].
Many countries have set a goal of increasing the usage of renew-
able energy above 20% of their total power consumption by the
year 2020. In addition, distributed power systems are subject to an ac source with power actor correction. To use renewable en-
the effects of environmental factors and restrictions of nature. ergy more efficiently, dc electricity should be directly supplied
A general power system uses battery energy storage to avoid a to these loads. Such a supply scheme is far different from that
power outage or power surges caused by natural environmental of the conventional ac distribution and supply system. A con-
factors. The recent trend of renewable energy development is figuration of the dc-distributed system with grid connection is
a combination of distributed power sources and energy storage shown in Fig. 1, in which a bidirectional inverter is introduced
subsystems to form a small microgrid [2], [3] that can reduce to regulate dc-grid voltage within a certain range.
loss of energy from power transmission lines over long dis- DC-distributed systems were applied to data centers [4]–[14],
tances. Renewable energy is converted into dc and buffered which reduced power loss by around 7%, saved 33% of space,
with energy storage elements, and then it is inverted to ac and reduced facility investment by about 15% and increased reli-
fed into the utility grid. This approach can readily adapt to ex- ability by about 200% [1]. Additionally, low voltage (24 V)
isting electrical facilities and expedite use of renewable energy. ceiling-grid applications, especially for lighting, were also de-
However, existing high efficiency and compact appliances and veloped [15]–[19]. There are several research groups [20]–[33],
equipment are powered by dc, which is converted by rectifying which have extended the high voltage (380 V) dc-distribution
system to drive home appliances, of which the elegant power
application research center (EPARC) has built a demonstra-
tion house for testing the overall system operation. In this pa-
Manuscript received March 31, 2012; revised May 17, 2012; accepted July
12, 2012. Date of current version October 26, 2012. This work was supported by per, the system configuration including green power generator,
the National Science Council, Taiwan, under Project 101-3113-P-194-002 and energy storage element, dc appliance and equipment, and en-
Project 101-2623-E-150-002–ET. Recommended for publication by Associate ergy management system (EMS) with a fuzzy controller will be
Editor Y.-K. Lo.
The authors are with the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Na- introduced.
tional Formosa University, Yunlin 632, Taiwan (e-mail: ykchen@nfu.edu.tw; In the development of the green energy systems, a control
jingballast@yahoo.com.tw; ccsong@nfu.edu.tw; gmezx@nfu.edu.tw). method is required to optimize energy distribution of a microgrid
Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online
at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. system. Therefore, model construction is necessary for solar
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C. Lithium-Ion Battery Modeling Vact = − [ξ1 +ξ2 · T +ξ3 · T · ln(CO 2 )+ξ4 · T · ln(if )] (13)
Eq. (9) is the discharge equation and (10) the charge equation Vohm = if · RM (14)
Fig. 7. Block diagram of fuzzy control to maintain the desired SOC of the
battery.
TABLE I
FUZZY CONTROL RULES
Fig. 10. Dynamic model of the microgrid system using MATLAB simulink.
Fig. 13. Simulation results when the bidirectional inverter rating is over the
power rating.
waveforms of dc-bus voltage Vdc and battery current Ib of the [18] Low-Voltage DC Interconnection, J. Akins, Director of Business Devel-
dc microgrid system with fuzzy control. From the measured opment, Tyco Electronics, Green Building Power Forum, Jan. 2010.
[19] Advantages of Low-Voltage DC Power in Commercial Building Interi-
results, we can see that the battery current is regulated by the ors, B. Graham, President, Projects/Design & Construction Division of
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[20] DC Distribution and the Home of the Future, B. Fortenbery, Program
Manager, Electric Power Research Institute, Green Building Power Forum,
V. CONCLUSION Jun. 2009.
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[22] Optimizing Efficiency and Reliability of DC Branch Circuits in Build-
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Yu-Kai Chen (S’98–M’99) was born in Chiayi, Chau-Chung Song received the M.S. degree in
Taiwan, in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in control engineering, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree
electronic engineering from Feng Chia University, in electrical and control engineering from National
Taichung, Taiwan, in 1990, the M.S. degree in in- Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2001.
formation and electronics engineering from National He has been with the Department of Aeronauti-
Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, in 1994, and the cal Engineering, Institute of Aviation and Electronic
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Technology, National Formosa University, Huwei,
Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, in 1999. Taiwan, since 2006, where he is currently an As-
From 1994 to 1999, he was a Lecturer with the sociate Professor. His research interests include the
Department of Electronic Engineering, Wu Feng In- analysis and control of nonlinear systems, the power
stitute of Technology, Chiayi. He was an Associate electronics and energy applications, the networking
Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chien kuo Institute of integration of information and communication technology, the embedded mi-
Technology, Changhua, Taiwan, from 1999 to 2003. Since 2003, he has been croprocessor systems and the automotive networking communication, and elec-
with the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, National Formosa Univer- tronic control systems for electric vehicle.
sity, Huwei, Taiwan, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests
include modeling and control of dc/dc converters, design of solar panel-supplied
inverters for grid connection, and DSP- and microprocessor-based application
systems with fuzzy and robust control.