WEBINAR: EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM FOR THE STUDY OF IMPACT OF ROOFTOP PV SYSTEM INTEGRATION ON DISTRIBUTION GRID
Speaker : Ilhem SLAMA-BELKHODJA
Summary
A flexible and modular experimental platform developed to strengthen training and research capacities in the field of photovoltaic (PV) residential systems is presented. It is to investigate the impact of rooftop PV on electrical distribution network such as voltage quality, power losses, but also some emerging solutions as smart hybrid solar inverter with batteries use. This platform is dedicated to engineering school students, since a very first level, and also to research level. In the first case, PSIM simulation software is used to emphasize basic phenomenon like bidirectional power exchange, ratio of generated and consumed active and reactive power, impact of non linear loads. For advanced level, design control for power converter is investigated with PSIM and PIL approach for PV inverter. For research level, energy management systems are under consideration, and also local and centralised storage. This last is investigated thanks to Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) approach with OPAL-RT environment, when the power converter design and model is performed with PSIM.
Speaker
Ilhem Slama-Belkhodja received the Dipl.Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs d’Electrotechnique d’Electronique d’Informatique et d’Hydraulique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and her Doctorat d’Etat from the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT) in 1997. She is currently a Full Professor with the Electrical Engineer Department of ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia. From 2003 to 2015 she headed the Electrical Systems Laboratory (L.S.E-LR11ES15) of ENIT. Since 2016, she is heading the research group QehnA from L.S.E.-ENIT. Her research interests include fault tolerant electrical systems, power electronics, and control system design related to converters for AC drives, distributed generation and microgrids. She is a project coordinator to several scientific projects.