Capstone Project
| Group | 2023-06 | Status | inprogress |
| Title | Powering up House Appliances using an Electric Vehicle | ||
| Supervisor | P. Pillay | ||
| Description | In this project,
- students will start by simulating the vehicle-to-load (V2L) operating mode of an electric vehicle. In this mode of operation, the electric vehicle battery is used to power up a house for emergency loads or to reduce the peak load. This could be during a power outage or using the electric car as a power source during high-electricity demand periods to reduce the electricity bill. - students should show simulation results using some solar house appliances as a load and the electric car battery as a power source. The battery voltage of the electric car is 300 VDC, and the inverter output voltage is around 120 VAC. The loads could be a laptop, a personal computer, a Wi-Fi router, a phone charger, one or two small fluorescent lamps, or an office refrigerator. These appliances can be powered up individually or together. In any case, the total load should not exceed 2 kW. - Students are expected to draw a detailed electrical wiring diagram of the system. Also, they should specify and purchase all needed components for the control circuit of the inverter. - Students must use a DSP microcontroller for a closed-loop control to generate proper switching signals for the inverter so that a grid-like voltage can be obtained. |
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| Requirement | Background courses: - Fundamental Electrical Power Engineering (ELEC 331). - Power Electronics I (ELEC 433). Software skills: - Be familiar with PSIM software and have some knowledge of microcontroller programming. | ||
| Tools | Test equipment: - Multimeter. - Current clamp meter. - 4-channel oscilloscope. - Voltage and current sensors. Software: - PSIM. - C or C+ programming platform, MATLAB. Hardware: - A DSP microcontroller board. - A Laptop. - Soldering kit. | ||
| Number of Students | 6 | ||
| Students | M. Diallo, Z. Huang, D.H.Da Silva, S. Oloumou, B. Arhin, K. Shimeles | ||
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