Increasing railway traffic and energy utilization issues prompt electrified railway systems to be more economical,efficient and sustainable.As regenerative braking energy in railway systems has huge potential for opti...Increasing railway traffic and energy utilization issues prompt electrified railway systems to be more economical,efficient and sustainable.As regenerative braking energy in railway systems has huge potential for optimized utilization,a lot of research has been focusing on how to use the energy efficiently and gain sustainable benefits.The energy storage system is an alternative because it not only deals with regenerative braking energy but also smooths drastic fluctuation of load power profile and optimizes energy management.In this work,we propose a co-phase traction power supply system with super capacitor(CSS_SC)for the purpose of realizing the function of energy management and power quality management in electrified railways.Besides,the coordinated control strategy is presented to match four working modes,including traction,regenerative braking,peak shaving and valley filling.A corresponding simulation model is built in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the feasibility of the proposed system under dynamic working conditions.The results demonstrate that CSS_SC is flexible to deal with four different working conditions and can realize energy saving within the allowable voltage unbalance of 0.008%in simulation in contrast to 1.3%of the standard limit.With such a control strategy,the performance of super capacitor is controlled to comply with efficiency and safety constraints.Finally,a case study demonstrates the improvement in power fluctuation with the valley-to-peak ratio reduced by 20.3%and the daily load factor increased by 17.9%.展开更多
The energy storage system(ESS)as a demand-side management(DSM)resource can effectively smooth the load power fluctuation of a power system.However,designing a more reasonable ESS operational strategy will be a prerequ...The energy storage system(ESS)as a demand-side management(DSM)resource can effectively smooth the load power fluctuation of a power system.However,designing a more reasonable ESS operational strategy will be a prerequisite before incorporating the energy storage device into DSM.As different load levels have different demands for the real-time chargedischarge power of an ESS,this paper proposes a heuristic ESS operation scheduling strategy which can take into account the electrical load demand differences.In this paper,firstly,two demand degree concepts for charging power and discharging power are defined to describe the differentiated ESS demand under the condition of different electrical load levels.Secondly,an inverse proportion technique based ESS scheduling strategy,with the consideration of the load demand difference,is proposed in this paper.Thirdly,some evaluating indices are defined in this paper for describing the influence of the proposed strategy on the smoothing degree of the daily load curve.Finally,several case studies are designed to verify the validity and correctness of the proposed technique,and the results show that the proposed technique can effectively smooth the load curve and improve the ability of peak shaving and valley filling.展开更多
Decoupled electrolysis of water is a promising strategy for peak load regulation of electricity.The key to developing this technology is to construct decoupled devices containing stable redox mediators and correspondi...Decoupled electrolysis of water is a promising strategy for peak load regulation of electricity.The key to developing this technology is to construct decoupled devices containing stable redox mediators and corresponding efficient catalysts,which remains a considerable challenge.Herein,we designed a high-performance device,using polysulfides as mediators and graphene-encapsulated CoNi as catalysts.It produced H2 with a low potential of 0.82 V at 100 mA/cm^(2),saving 60.2%more energy than direct water electrolysis.The capacity of H2 production reached 2.53105 mAh/cm^(2),which is the highest capacity reported so far.This device exhibited excellent cyclability in 15-day recycle tests,without any decay of performance.The calculation results revealed that the electronic structure of the graphene shell was modulated by the electron transfer from N-dopant and metal core,which significantly facilitated recycle of polysulfides on graphene surfaces.This study provides a promising method for constructing a smart grid by developing efficient decoupled devices.展开更多
文摘Increasing railway traffic and energy utilization issues prompt electrified railway systems to be more economical,efficient and sustainable.As regenerative braking energy in railway systems has huge potential for optimized utilization,a lot of research has been focusing on how to use the energy efficiently and gain sustainable benefits.The energy storage system is an alternative because it not only deals with regenerative braking energy but also smooths drastic fluctuation of load power profile and optimizes energy management.In this work,we propose a co-phase traction power supply system with super capacitor(CSS_SC)for the purpose of realizing the function of energy management and power quality management in electrified railways.Besides,the coordinated control strategy is presented to match four working modes,including traction,regenerative braking,peak shaving and valley filling.A corresponding simulation model is built in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the feasibility of the proposed system under dynamic working conditions.The results demonstrate that CSS_SC is flexible to deal with four different working conditions and can realize energy saving within the allowable voltage unbalance of 0.008%in simulation in contrast to 1.3%of the standard limit.With such a control strategy,the performance of super capacitor is controlled to comply with efficiency and safety constraints.Finally,a case study demonstrates the improvement in power fluctuation with the valley-to-peak ratio reduced by 20.3%and the daily load factor increased by 17.9%.
基金This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(51607051)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(PA2021KCPY0053,JZ2019HGTB0077)Visiting Scholarship of State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment&System Security and New Technology(Chongqing University)(2007DA 105127).
文摘The energy storage system(ESS)as a demand-side management(DSM)resource can effectively smooth the load power fluctuation of a power system.However,designing a more reasonable ESS operational strategy will be a prerequisite before incorporating the energy storage device into DSM.As different load levels have different demands for the real-time chargedischarge power of an ESS,this paper proposes a heuristic ESS operation scheduling strategy which can take into account the electrical load demand differences.In this paper,firstly,two demand degree concepts for charging power and discharging power are defined to describe the differentiated ESS demand under the condition of different electrical load levels.Secondly,an inverse proportion technique based ESS scheduling strategy,with the consideration of the load demand difference,is proposed in this paper.Thirdly,some evaluating indices are defined in this paper for describing the influence of the proposed strategy on the smoothing degree of the daily load curve.Finally,several case studies are designed to verify the validity and correctness of the proposed technique,and the results show that the proposed technique can effectively smooth the load curve and improve the ability of peak shaving and valley filling.
基金We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(no.2016YFA0204100 and 2016YFA0200200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(no.21890753 and 21988101)+3 种基金the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(no.QYZDB-SSW-JSC020)the DNL Cooperation Fund,CAS(no.DNL180201)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2019MEE015)the Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province(2018GSF117042).
文摘Decoupled electrolysis of water is a promising strategy for peak load regulation of electricity.The key to developing this technology is to construct decoupled devices containing stable redox mediators and corresponding efficient catalysts,which remains a considerable challenge.Herein,we designed a high-performance device,using polysulfides as mediators and graphene-encapsulated CoNi as catalysts.It produced H2 with a low potential of 0.82 V at 100 mA/cm^(2),saving 60.2%more energy than direct water electrolysis.The capacity of H2 production reached 2.53105 mAh/cm^(2),which is the highest capacity reported so far.This device exhibited excellent cyclability in 15-day recycle tests,without any decay of performance.The calculation results revealed that the electronic structure of the graphene shell was modulated by the electron transfer from N-dopant and metal core,which significantly facilitated recycle of polysulfides on graphene surfaces.This study provides a promising method for constructing a smart grid by developing efficient decoupled devices.
