Chair of Power Electronics

SmartGYSUM: "Reliability and availability of Smart Transformers for cost effective and high quality of services in the grid"

The SMARTGYsum (Smart and Green Energy System and Business Models) will train a new generation of Electric Energy Systems Resesarch and Development professionals for 36 months that will enable the implementation of the Smart Energy vision. It is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Innovative Training Network - grant agreement no. 955614). .[read more].

 

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The topics to be trained and transferred to the Early Stage Researchers will focus on different technical and socio-economic aspects, providing an excellent basis to develop their future careers in Power Electronics, Electric Engineering, and Energy Economics.

To achieve the research objectives, SMARTGYsum will use a research methodology that combines engineering and business models, based on the design and computer simulation, using advanced techniques of digital twins, development using laboratories prototypes or preliminary versions of software appliances, including rapid prototyping and hardware in the loop, experimental validation in given scenarios, as close as possible to real cases, and finally the definition and test of business models using simulation and small application cases, when possible during the secondments at non-academic sectors. This will enable the coupling of the technical requirements with the related changes needed in the socio-economical context.

The ground-breaking nature of SMARTGYsum lays on the integration of different technical and socio-economic research dimensions to contribute to the transformation of the Electric Energy Systems (EES) beyond the state of the art of green economy models and management systems. SMARTGYsum will bring together all stages of smart grids (generation, distribution and use of energy) through the research of innovative business models that tackle the existing challenges in the evolution of EES into Smart Grids in each of the mentioned stages, while covering the technological developments needed to meet the requirements of the green economy.

The CAU is involved in the SMARTGYsum with one early stage researcher.

ESR07 will investigate the insertion and integration of smart devices in the grid, aimed at enabling autonomous grid management increasing the reliability and availability of grid services. The major tasks are the development of a hybrid grid-feeding Smart Transformer (ST), analysis of different ST topologies, implementation of hardware and experimental validation of the obtained results.

As reliability and availability are very important for the economic insertion of ST into the grid, the prototype design will be developed based on these objectives. The developed prototype will be tested in the hybrid grid environment (Laboratory demonstrator at Kiel University) for its autonomous grid management capabilities. The grid operator, Schleswig-Holstein Netz AG, supports the project with the grid service part.

Major expected scientific outcomes are summarized as follows:

• Analysis of different topologies of Smart Transformer

• Design of a hybrid grid-feeding Smart Transformer

• A complete prototype of Smart Transformer with high reliability and availability

• The economic efficiency analysis of the Smart Transformer

ESR07 will have three secondment during his research. First and second secondments will be on Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) to test and develop the experimental prototype. Third secondment will be for four-month on the MMB drives to carry out the research on the cost and feasibility of smart hybrid installations.

Title SMARTGYsum (Smart and Green Energy Systems and Business Models)
Coordinator Prof. Marco Liserre
Contact Person Mahyar Hassanifar (mha@tf.uni-kiel.de)
Type Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action - innovative Training Network (EU Funding)
Funding 3.785.704 Euro (CAU: 252.788 Euro)
Partners

Beneficiary Organizations:

University of Extremadura - Politechnika Warszawska - Aalborg University - Chernihiv National Technological University - Politechnika Gdanska - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel - Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie - CY Cergy Paris Université - Tallinn University of Technology - Universitá degli Studi di Salerno - Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Communaute D'Universites Et Etablissements Universite Bourgogne - Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Industrial partners:

VESTAS Wind Systems A/S - Schleswig-Holstein Netz - Smartecon OÜ - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-Istituto di Ingegneria del Mare - BRIGHTLOOP SAS - Zaklad Automatyki i Urzadzen Pomiarowych - MMB Drives - TWERD Power Electronics - PJSC TERA - Communaute D'Universites Et Etablissements Universite Bourgogne - Opal-RT Germany GmbH - WALL-I - European Center for Power Electronics - Senior Europa (Kveloce I+D+i)

Duration 01.08.2022 – 01.08.2025
Homepage https://www.smartgysum.eu/
Keywords

Smart Transformer - Smart and Hybrid Grid - Grid Services

 

 

 

 

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  • Our research is focused on the design of high efficient and reliable PWM-based power converter architectures (single-cell, multi-cell, multilevel), their modelling and control to exploit commercial as well as new power semiconductor devices with minimum over design.
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