28 September 2022, 10 AM
Radmor S.A., / AREX Ltd
3 Hutnicza St., 81-212 Gdynia, Poland

The fast rise of the oil prices in the first months of 2022 is painful but can be a chance to speed up the change to electric vehicles as they become more competitive in terms of cost. With government support, the number of cars in countries like Poland is rising; however, still, the bottleneck is the lack of suitable charging infrastructure. There is no doubt that widely available and fast charging infrastructure is a key to the success of the e-mobility revolution.


Experiences from the field show in many cases that installation of the classical electrical vehicle chargers maybe not be enough. When the peak power of the charging system is higher than the available power of the connection point, we may need energy storage. The best solution is to take advantage of the used batteries, which do not fulfil automotive standards but can still be applied in less demanding applications. Another challenge is the rising voltage of the batteries to be charged; the internal DC links of the charging stations may also reach the medium voltage level or become bipolar. Moreover, the latest technologies, to mention Silicon Carbide power devices, are fast spreading in the EV chargers. Finally, to reduce the system cost and improve reliability, the modular approach is required.


Some of these issues are addressed in the project “Modularized, Reconfigurable and Bidirectional Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles with Silicon Carbide Power Electronics (MoReSiC)”, conducted by teams from Warsaw University of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim and Markel sp. z o.o. The first outcomes of the project will be presented and discussed during the workshop, but the presentations on the advanced charging systems from other research groups will also take place.


Plan of the workshop

TIMETITLEPRESENTER
10:00Welcome & opening of the workshopGerard Wiśniewski (AREX)
10:05AREX company presentationOskar Kreft
(AREX)
Session I (chair Ryszard Strzelecki)
10:20Modularized, Reconfigurable and Bidirectional Charging
Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles with Silicon Carbide Power
Electronics” (MoReSiC) – project overview
Jacek Rąbkowski
(PW)
10:40Decision algorithms in an intelligent energy storage
management system
Paweł Mordawski
(AREX)
11:00System power management and energy storage sizing in EV
charger
Krzysztof Kalinowski
(PW)
11:20Three-level ANPC converter at medium voltage – control
scheme and experimental results
Michał Harasimczuk
(PW)
11:40Vienna rectifier as an input stage of the EV chargerGrzegorz Wrona
(PW/Markel)
Session II (chair Jacek Rąbkowski)
12:20Performance Evaluation of SiC-based Isolated Bidirectional
DC/DC Converters for Electric Vehicle Charging
Kaushik N. Kumar
(NTNU)
12:40Dual Active Module (DAM)- single stage, isolated, bidirectional,
dual output AC/DC converter
Daniel Wojciechowski
(AREX)
13:00Series-resonant dual active bridge with ANPC submodulesRafał Miskiewicz
Przemysław Trochimiuk
(PW)
13:20Experiments with two series-resonant isolated DC-DC
converters in ISOP configuration
Mariusz Zdanowski
(PW/Markel)
Session III (chair Dimosthenis Peftitsis)
14:10Three-level interleaved non-isolated DC/DC converter for battery energy storage systemsRafał Kopacz
(PW)
14:30SiC based interleaved DC-DC converter for the battery energy
storage – first experiments
Radosław Sobieski
(Markel)

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