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Energy and Power Engineering, 2013, 5, 1372-1376 doi:10.4236/epe.2013.54B260 Published Online July 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/epe) Research on the Model of Electric Vehicle Charging Device Based on PSCAD Run-rong Fan, Tian-yuan Tan, Yun-peng Gao, Hui Chang School of Electrical Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China Email: rrfran0426@whu.edu.cn, tty@whu.edu.cn, ypgao@whu.edu.cn, hui_chang@foxmail.com Received May, 2013 ABSTRACT As the energy and environment issues are becoming increasingly prominent, electric vehicles have become the main new energy vehicles of future development because of their advantage of environmental protection, clean and energy conservation. Electric vehicle charging station is a very important part of electric vehicle facilities, the development and popularization of electric vehicles can't do with the construction of the charging station. The chargers in charging sta- tions are nonlinear equip ment, and th ey will produce harmonic pollution, so it's of practical significance to do a research on the chargers and their harmonic problems. By using power system simulation software PSCAD as the simulation and analysis tool, this thesis focuses on electric vehicle charging device modeling and harmonic problem research. Keywords: Electric Vehicles; Modeling; Harmonic Analysis; PSCAD Simulation 1. Introduction The car makes a great contribution to the advance of human civilization [1]. It makes human life more con- venient and comfortable, but at the same it also brings to the society inevitable consequences such as the waste of resources and serious environmental pollution [2, 3]. In order to reduce its dependence on traditional energy sources and to protect the natural environment for human survival, doing researches on new energy has become a worldwide subject [4, 5]. As a representative of the new energy vehicles, electric vehicles have obvious advantage of environmentally-friendly, energy-saving and so on compared to traditional gasoline cars [6]. The electric vehicle charging system is the basic sup- porting systems of electric vehicles. [7]The charging device’s research is of great significance to the promo- tion and application of the electric car, and to its turning to industrial production. This paper is based on the program of electric vehicle charging device. Six pulse wave uncontrolled rectifica- tion charger circuit was built in PSCAD so that it can charge a storage battery. And it also calculated the Nth-degree harmonics current and the distortion rate of total current harmonic. It also analyzed the harmonics of the car charging model. And compared it with the theo- retical value, which proved correctness of the analysis. In the end, it gives the prospects of the researches that need to be done in this field. 2. The Design of Electric Vehicles’ Charging Device The charging device system of electric vehicles is actu- ally a DC power supply. To de sign such a power supply, the charging models, the methods of charging and many other factors should to be considered. 2.1. The Charging Model and Charging Method of the Electric Vehicle As for the electric vehicle charging programs, there are three choices: models of conventional charging, fast charging and mechanical charging [8]. The three charg- ing modes have their own characteristics and scope of application. Ac-cording to the characteristics and control of the operational characteristics of the convention al pure electric vehicles and the use of conventional battery management strategy, usually conventional charging and supplementary charging are taken. The supplementary charging is still in th e form of the conventional charging, but the charging time is the hospitality gap. It can be re- placed by the battery charging if necessary. There are mainly three conventional charging methods of the electric cars: constant current charging method, constant voltage charging method and stage charging method [9]. Of the three methods,, stage charging meth- od can avoid large charging current at the beginning phase of the constant voltage charging, it can also avoid the phenomenon of overcharge at the later phase of the constant current charging. Stage charging method is used Copyright © 2013 SciRes. EPE R.-R. FAN ET AL. 1373 on the power battery of the charger’s charging methods and charging control strategy. So this paper takes stage charging method to charge electric vehicles. 2.2. The Overall Design of the Electric Vehicle’s Charging Device The charging device system of electric vehicles is actu- ally a DC power supply. And the design of the charging system is in fact the design of a power supply. But the power supply must be controlled by a certain algorithm so that the output voltage and current are in line with the curve of battery charging. The charging power supplies that commonly used in industrial applications are the following three types: linear power, SCR power supply and switching power supply [10]. According to the working principle and method of the switching power supply, the block diagram of the charger designed in this paper is shown in Figure 1. 3. The Modeling of the Charger and its Sim- ulation Analysis According to the requirements of the electric vehicle battery charging and the design requirements of the charging device, in this paper we build a charging device circuit in PSCAD, set the parameters of each device in the circuit and then run the circu it, we obtained a portion of the output voltage and current waveforms of the power supply. 3.1. The Design of the Charging Device Circuit The main circuit diagram of electric vehicle charging device build in PSCAD is shown in Figure 2. This paper mainly analyzes the charger’s output voltage and current. For more convenient analysis, a simple resistive load is given. In order to simulate the charging system as real as possible, we set the sys-tem input 10kv , and transformed to 380V after △/Y transformer to supply power for the charging system. The charging system rectifier links use three-phase controlled rectifier diode, the three-phase 380V AC voltage becomes 514V DC voltage through a three-phase rectifier bridge rectifier and capacitor fil- ter ,and turn to high-frequency pulse voltage after H- bridge inverter, then we get the required adjustable DC voltage and adjustable DC current after high-frequency rectifier and filter. Figure 1. Block diagram of the charger. A B C RLC RLC RLC TTT TTT 2000.0 [uF] A B C A B C 380 [V] #2#1 10.0 [ k V] 1.0 [MVA] V A U1 TT G1 TT G2 TT G2 TT G1 #2 #3 #1 T T 0. 001 [H] Uo Io 2000.0 [uF] 1.0 [ohm ] 1 [mH] Figure 2 The main circuit of the electric vehicle charging device. G1 G2 G1 G2 U1 U1 Ua Ua Ia Ia Uo Uo Io Io Figure 3. Drive control circuit and waveform analysis cir- cuit. The drive control circuit and the waveform analysis circuit shown in Figure 3. 3.2. Simulation Analysis of the Charging Device The waveforms of the output voltage and current can be obtained through the simulation of the entire charging device circuit, waveform diagram shown in Figure 4 (a) and the unit is V. waveform diagram shown in Figure 4 (b) and the unit is A. As can be seen from the output voltage and current waveform, the charger model designed in this paper can get a better DC power supply. 4. The Harmonic Analysis of Electric Vehicle Charging Device Connected to the Grid High power charger in charging stations is a kind of highly non-linear electrical equipment. Sinusoidal volt- age puts pressure on non-linear loads, the fundamental current will be distorted and harmonic will be generated. Especially in large charging stations, a large number of charger works at the same time, harmonic currents gen- erated will have great impact on power grid and other electrical equipments. Therefore, in the construction of charging stations, we need to consider the harmonic problems. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. EPE R.-R. FAN ET AL. 1374 4.1. The Design of the Equivalent Model of the Charger’s Harmonic Analysis The working principle of the charging machine is the input three-phase AC current rectified by rectifying cir- cuit, after the filter circuit, providing the DC input for high frequency DC-DC power conversion circuit, the output of the power conversion circuit after the output filter circuit to charge rechargeable battery of vehicles, charger block diagram shown in Figure 5. At present, as for the charging method and charging control strategy of the charging machine’s battery, we usually adopt a typical two-stage method. The first half is the constant current but with limited pressure, the latter half is the constant pressure but with limited current. Usually the conventional charging time of charging machine is 4-6 hours. In this process, the output voltage and current is changeable, but in the charging time of a micro-element, we think the output current and the out- put voltage of the charging machine is constant, i.e.in a (a) (b) Figure 4 (a) Uo waveform graph; (b) I0 waveform graph. 0 I 0 U Figure 5. Block diagram of the charg e r. micro element we can use a non-resistor R to approxi- mate the input impedance of the high frequency power conversion circuits, therefore we can use a nonlinear re- sistance R in the entire process of charging to the equiv- alent in place of the high-frequency power transform circuit, the value of R calculated as: 22 11 11 11 oo UU UU R2 o I PPU I (1) In the formula, 1—the input voltage of the high frequency power conversion circuit; U 1 I —the input current of the high-frequency power conversion circuit; o—the output voltage of the high-frequency power conversion circuit; U o I —the output current of the high-frequency power conversion circuit; o—the output power of the high-frequency power conversion circuit; P —The efficiency of power conversion modules. The power conversion efficiency of the module is generally more than 95%. In order to analysis the har- monic, will be set as 95% directly. We use nonlinear resistor R Instead of the charger power conversion unit we can get the approximate equivalent model. According to recorded data of the battery’s charging process, using the curve fitting method, we can get the output power of the charging machine: 0.048 omax o0.021 (t-150) omax 0.79t,0t 150 te,150 t270 P PP () (2) For example, the power of charger is 9kw, parameters of the charger machine as follows, omax = 75V, omax U I = 120A, omaxomax omax PUI = 9kW, the charging time t = 270 min. For the 6-pulse uncontrolled rectifier bridge, output on the DC-side B U = 2.34, 2 U = 514.8V. Making use of the relationship between R and the output power curve of the charging machine, we can obtain: 2 o B U RP (3) In formula (3), is the charging machines’ effi- ciency, B U is DC voltage of the rectifier bridge, o substituted into the abov e equation, we can get a formula about the equivalent impedance of the high frequency power converter. tP() The calculated R is a continuously changing non-linear curve. the R-value change small before 150 minutes, Structures approximate R model in PSCAD shown in Figure 6, Among A = 1.1988, B = 0.021. The value of R changing with time is shown in Figure 7. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. EPE R.-R. FAN ET AL. 1375 4.2. Harmonic Simulation Analysis First, we should make three-phase uncontrolled rectifier bridge; rectifier DC side filters inductor and capacitor in PSCAD / EMTDC. Meanwhile, in order to analyze the harmonic, we should also establish a non-controlled rec- tifier bridge consisting of charging machine simulation topology; the circuit is shown in Figure 8. The control loop circuit and waveform display loop circuit is shown in Figure 9. Simulation analysis of the circuit to obtain voltage of the high-voltage input terminal and waveform of the current. The waveform shown in Figure 10(a) and the unit is Kv. The wavefo rm shown in Figure 10(b) and the unit is A. TIME R 150 AeBx Max D E Figure 6. Model diagram of R. Figure 7. R change with time when charging process. A B C RLC RLC RLC TTT TTT V A 2000.0 [uF] 1 [ mH] R + A B C A B C 380 [V] #2#1 10.0 [kV] 1. 0 [MVA] Figure 8. Main circuit of charging simulation topology dia- gram. R TIME AeBx Max D E 150 Ua Ua Ia Ia Figure 9. Control loop circuit and waveform display loop circuit. (a) (b) Figure 10. (a) Ua waveform graphs; (b) Ia waveform graphs. As can be seen from Figure 10, the input terminal voltage and current generated distortion, In order to get a further analysis of the nature of the harmonic, we should analyze its Fourier. The harmonic analysis of the circuit is shown in Figure 11. With the analysis of the circuit simulation, we can get the current total distortion waveform as is shown in Fig- ure 12; the amplitude of the current total distortion is 6.7%. The percentage of the each output harmonic wave is shown in Figure 13. With the simulation waveforms and the ratio chart, we can get the higher quality harmonic: (k = 1, 2, 3 ...) har- monic, and as for the higher harmonic content, the higher the harmonic frequency, the smaller the amplitude. We can also conduct harmonic suppression with the installa- tion of filtering devices and reactive power compensatio n device. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. EPE R.-R. FAN ET AL. Copyright © 2013 SciRes. EPE 1376 Mag Ph dc (31) (31) F F T F = 50.0 [Hz] Ia Harm onic Distortion To tal Indivi dua l 31 31 TH Dn TH Di Figure 11. Harmonic analysis circuit. Figure 12. Current total harmonic distortion waveform graphs. Figure 13. Each output harmonic wave propo rtion. 5. Conclusions The use of electric vehicles’ charging problems must be first considered, while the development and populariza- tion of electric vehicles cannot be separated from the construction of charging stations. In the charging stations, charging device will produce harmonics and inject har- monics into the grid. Therefore, before the construction and functioning of the charging stations, we must study and solve the electric vehicle’s charging and harmonic problems. This paper used appropriate procedures and estab- lished a simulation model to simulate the charging device and then analyzed the harmonic impact which is proved ffective. This paper built a battery model, and re- searched its charging method. 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