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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location using Fuzzy Optimization

Electric vehicle charging station location is a basic problem in integrating electric vehicles in electric power systems. An electric vehicle plugged into the electric distribution system may absorb or produce active and/or reactive power [1-4] depending on the need of the electric power system, Table 1 below.

Electric vehicle charger operating modes [4].


When finding the location of EV charging stations in order to support the electric distribution systems, the cost of EV charging, the impact on distribution system losses and voltage profile of the system are parameters needed to be considered. These variables are to be looked into when plugged in EV is either acting as a generator or a load given a system demand level.

Recent studies have solved this EV charging station location problem. In [5], a mixed integer programming solution was developed with site accessibility, local jobs and population densities and trip attributes as main constraints. A genetic programming approach is utilized in [6] for simulation of electric vehicles on a real map of a European city where the optimal solution of the charging infrastructure is derived based on mean trip times of electric vehicles. A two step procedure is proposed in [7] where the authors included environmental factors and service radius of EV charging stations in the screening first step and built a modified primal-dual interior point algorithm (MPDIPA) for optimal sizing of EV charging stations with the minimization of total cost associated with EV charging stations to be planned as the objective function with losses and voltage profile included in the problem. Reference [8] introduces an optimization process for sizing and siting of EV charging stations, modeling the charging demand and the structure of road network to where the solution approach was graph theory. Level 1 and level 2 charging stations are discussed in [9] and how to allocate them for residential EV users using simulation-optimization strategy.

Recent studies do not consider uncertainties and imprecision which can be captured using fuzzy optimization. Fuzzy set theory can provide a simpler yet powerful solution for allocating EV charging stations in electric distribution systems. The Civanlar test system [11] will be utilized for the study and assuming that capital investment of the EV charging station is the same for all distribution system candidate nodes while considering time of use (TOU) electricity tariff, distribution system losses and voltage profiles.

References

[1] Chenye Wu, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, and Jianwei Huang, “PEV-based Reactive Power Compensation for Wind DG Units: A Stackelberg Game Approach”, in Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm’12), Tainan City, Taiwan, October 2012.
[2]   Chenye Wu, Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Jianwei Huang, Juri Jatskevich, “PEV-Based Combined Frequency and Voltage Regulation for Smart Grid”, the 3rd IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Washington DC, Jan 2012.
[3]    M. Kisacikoglu, B. Ozpineci, L. M. Tolbert, "V2G Reactive Power Compensation Using a PHEV Bidirectional Charger Interface Rated at Level 1, 2, and 3 Charging Standards," IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 12-16, 2010.
[4]     M. Kisacikoglu, B. Ozpineci, L. M. Tolbert, "Examination of a PHEV Bidirectional Charger System for V2G Reactive Power Compensation," IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference, Palm Springs, California, Feb. 21-25, 2010, pp. 458-465.
[5]    Chen, T. D., et al, “The Electric Vehicle Charging Station Location Problem: A Parking-Based Assignment Method for Seattle”, on-line: http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/kockelman/public_html/TRB13EVparking.pdf
[6]    Hess, A. Et al, “Optimal Deployment of Charging Stations for Electric Vehicular Networks”, on-line:http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2012/eproceedings/urbane/p1.pdf
[7]    Liu, Zhipeng, Wen, F. and  Ledwich, G. F. , “Optimal Planning of Electric-Vehicle Charging Stations in Distribution Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Jan. 2013, Vol. 28 , Issue 1.
[8]    Jia, L., Hu, Z., Song, Y., Luo, Z., “Optimal siting and sizing of electric vehicle charging stations”, 2012 IEEE International Electric Vehicle Conference (IEVC), 4-8 March 2012
[9]    Xi, X., et al, “Simulation-Optimization Model for Location of a Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure”, on-line:http://www.ise.osu.edu/ISEFaculty/sioshansi/papers/charge_infra.pdf

1 comment:

alke said...

The charging of electric vehicles is one of the most important factor to consider when we talk about electric mobility. In fact, to support the dissemination of these environmentally friendly vehicles is necessary to create an adequate recharging infrastructure covering the whole territory, not just the urban areas. It is also important to use more quick charging systems that allow to recharge ours electric vehicles in just fifteen minutes, making them much more convenient for motorists. Congratulations for the blog!