Publications by Dimitri Torregrossa

A Decentralized Adaptive Model-Based Real-time Control for Active Distribution Networks Using Battery Energy Storage Systems

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Maryam Bahramipanah, Dimitri Torregrossa

This paper proposes a real-time decentralized control algorithm in multi-area active distribution network relying only on dispersed Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs). In particular, we propose a zonal control strategy targeting voltage support and lin ...

2018

Battery Storage System Optimal Exploitation Through Physics-Based Model Predictive Control

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan

Traditionally, the safe operation of a battery energy storage system (BESS) is achieved by imposing conservative constraints on its DC bus current and voltage. By using a computationally efficient single particle model (SPM), we propose to replace these co ...

IEEE2017

Parameter identification of a lithium-ion cell single-particle model through non-invasive testing

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Emil Namor

Physics-based models of electrochemical cells are of great interest for the future battery management systems (BMSs), due to their accuracy and capability to predict cell physical states. One of their main disadvantages, when compared to equivalent circuit ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Enhanced Equivalent Electrical Circuit Model of Lithium-based Batteries Accounting for Charge Redistribution, State-of-Health and Temperature Effects

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Maryam Bahramipanah, Dimitri Torregrossa

Accurate models capable to predict the dynamic behavior and the State-of-Charge (SoC) of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) is a key aspect for the definition of model-based controls in electric vehicles and in power grid applications of these energy s ...

2017

Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment

Mario Paolone, Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Dimitri Torregrossa, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper describes a first prototype harvesting the acoustic energy using electrochemical storage devices. In particular, the harvesting system is composed by an Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC) suitably coupled with an electroacoustic abso ...

IEEE2016

Model-free computation of ultra-short-term prediction intervals of solar irradiance

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa

We propose an ultra-short-term dynamic interval predictor (DIP) of solar irradiance. Our DIP relies on experimentally observed correlations between the derivative of the solar irradiance and the forecast error in the next time-step. The main originalities ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Ultra-short-term prediction intervals of photovoltaic AC active power

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Enrica Scolari

The paper describes a heuristic method for the ultra-short-term computation of prediction intervals (PIs) for photovoltaic (PV) power generation. The method allows for directly forecasting the AC active power output of a PV system by simply extracting info ...

IEEE2016

Modelling of current and temperature effects on supercapacitors ageing. Part I: Review of driving phenomenology

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa

The paper proposes a study of the phenomenology driving the ageing mechanisms of electrochemical double layer supercapacitors (SCs) during their most common operating conditions. In particular, the paper focuses on the so-called life endurance (LE) and pow ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Non-Parametric Estimation of Surface Temperature of Li-ion Cells using Thermal Impulse Response

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Ying Xiao

This paper focuses on the prediction of temperature profiles on the surface of lithium-ion cells using a non-parametric method. In particular, this paper proposes the adoption of the impulse response technique to compute and interpret cell surface temperat ...

2016

High voltage x-ray power supply system with dual energy storage system

Dimitri Torregrossa, Mauro Carpita

Medical X-ray power generator system comprising an energy storage section comprising at least one battery unit and at least one supercapacitor (SC) unit, wherein the SC unit and the battery unit are connected in a way as to allow a bidirectional exchange o ...

2016

An Adaptive Model-Based Real-time Voltage Control Process for Active Distribution Networks Using Battery Energy Storage Systems

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Maryam Bahramipanah, Dimitri Torregrossa

The paper presents a centralized real-time adaptive and model-based voltage control algorithm for Active Distribution Networks (ADNs). Differently from the available literature, the proposed algorithm merely relies on the control of Battery Energy Storage ...

Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy2016

Modelling of current and temperature effects on supercapacitors ageing. Part II: State-of-Health assessment

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa

This second part of the paper proposes a model for predicting the State-of-Health (SOH) of electrochemical double layers supercapacitors (SCs) during combined high-pulsed power cycling and high-temperature life endurance stresses. The evolutions of the SC ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Surface temperature estimation of Li-ion battery via thermal impulse response technique

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Ying Xiao

This paper focuses on the prediction of temperature profiles on the surface of Lithium-ion cells. In particular, the paper proposes the adoption of the impulse response technique to predict cell surface temperatures consequent to generic discharge conditio ...

IEEE2015

Macroscopic indicators of fault diagnosis and ageing in electrochemical double layer capacitors

Hubert Girault, Mario Paolone, Véronique Amstutz, Kathryn Ellen Toghill, Dimitri Torregrossa

The ageing behaviour of electric double layer (EDLC) supercapacitors during over-temperature and over-voltage stresses is described. Specific experimental tests were carried out in order to reproduce, under laboratory controlled conditions, the above-menti ...

2015

Control of a Battery Energy Storage System Accounting for the Charge Redistribution Effect to Dispatch the Operation of a Medium Voltage Feeder

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan

We describe a process to dispatch the operation of a medium voltage distribution feeder and improve its quality-of-service using a battery energy storage system (BESS). It is organized according to a day-ahead and intra-day structure to allow the integrati ...

IEEE2015

Enhanced electrical model of Lithium-based batteries accounting the charge redistribution effect

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Maryam Bahramipanah, Dimitri Torregrossa

Within the context of the electrical circuit modeling of batteries, this paper proposes an improvement of the most common electric equivalent circuit used for Lithium cells. The main improvement is based on the modeling of the so-called charge redistributi ...

Wroclaw University of Technology2014

Understanding the Ageing Process, Recovering Phase and Fault Diagnosis of Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors

Hubert Girault, Mario Paolone, Kathryn Ellen Toghill, Dimitri Torregrossa

This paper focuses on the description of the behavior of supercapacitors during over-temperature and over-voltage stresses and the consequent ageing processes. Specific physical evidences supporting the explanation of the experimental findings are provided ...

IEEE2014

Improvement of Dynamic Modeling of Supercapacitor by Residual Charge Effects Estimation

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Maryam Bahramipanah, Dimitri Torregrossa, Emil Namor

The paper presents a set of experimental investigations related to the dynamic behavior of supercapacitors. The experimentally observed results are then used as inputs for the development of an improved version of one of the most common supercapacitor RC-e ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

A model predictive control strategy for the space heating of a smart building including cogeneration of a fuel cell-electrolyzer system

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa, Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro, Fabrizio Sossan

The objective of this paper is to analyze the value of energy replacement in the context of demand response. Energy replacement is defined as the possibility of the consumer to choose the most convenient source for providing space heating to a smart buildi ...

Elsevier2014

Novel experimental investigation of supercapacitor ageing during combined life-endurance and power-cycling tests

Mario Paolone, Dimitri Torregrossa

This paper proposes a new experimental investigation of the ageing mechanisms of super capacitors. Starting from the main ageing mechanisms of these devices reported in the literature, the paper proposes a suitably developed procedure aimed at evaluating t ...

IEEE Industrial Electronic Society2013