Abstract
This study deals with system integration and controller design for power management of a stand-alone renewable energy (RE) hybrid system, which is in its construction stage in Lambton College (Sarnia, Ontario, Canada). The system consists of five main components: photovoltaic (PV) arrays, wind turbine, electrolyzer, hydrogen storage tanks, and fuel cell. The model for each process component is developed and all the hybrid energy system components are integrated in a MATLAB/Simulink environment. A hierarchical control system is implemented, comprising of a supervisory controller, which ensures the power balance between intermittent renewable energy generation, energy storage and dynamic load demand, and local controllers for the PV, wind, electrolyzer and fuel cell units. A decentralized model predictive control (MPC) was designed and implemented on the electrolyzer and fuel cell to ensure optimal power flow.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control |
| Pages | 6376-6381 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
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| State | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012 - Maui, HI, United States Duration: Dec 10 2012 → Dec 13 2012 |
Other
| Other | 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Maui, HI |
| Period | 12/10/12 → 12/13/12 |
