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A Receding Horizon Control Approach For Re-Dispatching Stochastic Heterogeneous Resources Accounting for Grid and Battery Losses

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Eleni Stai

In this paper, we propose a re-dispatch scheme for radial distribution grids hosting stochastic Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and controllable batteries. At each re-dispatch round, the proposed scheme computes a new dispatch plan that modifies and ex ...

Elsevier2019

An ADMM-Based Coordination and Control Strategy for PV and Storage to Dispatch Stochastic Prosumers: Theory and Experimental Validation

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari, Luca Fabietti, Rahul Kumar Gupta

This paper describes a two-layer control and coordination framework for distributed energy resources. The lower layer is a real-time model predictive control (MPC) executed at 10 s resolution to achieve fine tuning of a given energy setpoint. The upper lay ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Quantification of Primary Frequency Control Provision from Battery Energy Storage Systems Connected to Active Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Giacomo Piero Schiapparelli

In this paper, we consider the provision of primary frequency control by using battery energy storage systems (BESSs). In particular, we use a standard droop-based frequency control for a BESS where the control action (i.e. the BESS power output) consists ...

Power Systems Computation Conference2018

Enhancing the dispatchability of distribution networks through utility-scale batteries and flexible demand

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Luca Fabietti

In this paper, the problem of dispatching the operation of a distribution feeder comprising a set of heterogeneous resources is investigated. The main objective is to track a power trajectory, called the dispatch plan, which is computed the day before the ...

2018

Advanced models and algorithms to provide multiple grid services with battery storage systems

Emil Namor

Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are expected to play a major role in the power grid of the near future. These devices, capable of storing and returning electrical energy, are valuable assets to a grid that integrates more and more distributed, inter ...

EPFL2018

Control of Battery Storage Systems for the Simultaneous Provision of Multiple Services

Mario Paolone, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan

In this paper, we propose a control framework for a battery energy storage system to provide simultaneously multiple services to the electrical grid. The objective is to maximise the battery exploitation from these services in the presence of uncertainty ( ...

2018

Experimental Assessment of the Prediction Performance of Dynamic Equivalent Circuit Models of Grid-connected Battery Energy Storage Systems

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Enrica Scolari

The paper discusses the model identification, validation and experimental testing of current-to-voltage dynamic circuit models for a grid-connected MW-class battery. The model refers to an utility-scale 720 kVA/560 kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) ...

IEEE2018

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

Dispatching active distribution networks through electrochemical storage systems and demand side management

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan, Luca Fabietti

In this paper, the problem of dispatching the operation of a distribution feeder comprising a set of heterogeneous resources is investigated. In particular, the main objective is to track a 5-minute resolution trajectory, called the \textit{dispatch plan} ...

2017

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

A System and Method for Dispatching an Operation with Heterogeneous Prosumers

Mario Paolone, Emil Namor, Fabrizio Sossan

A method for dispatching an operation of a distribution feeder of electrical power into a grid with heterogeneous prosumers, the method comprising the steps of establishing a dispatch plan on a computer by using forecast data of an aggregated consumption a ...

2017

Achieving the Dispatchability of Distribution Feeders Through Prosumers Data Driven Forecasting and Model Predictive Control of Electrochemical Storage

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

We propose and experimentally validate a process to dispatch the operation of a distribution feeder with heterogeneous prosumers according to a trajectory with 5 min resolution, called dispatch plan, established the day before the operation. The controllab ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Load Leveling and Dispatchability of a Medium Voltage Active Feeder through Battery Energy Storage Systems: Formulation of the Control Problem and Experimental Validation

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

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a control algorithm for a grid-connected battery energy storage system (BESS) to level the consumption of a group of prosumers and dispatch their aggregated operation. The control strategy is layered in a tw ...

2016

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

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