A Modeling Toolkit for Comparing AC and DC Electrical Distribution Efficiency in Buildings
Author:
Othee Avpreet1ORCID, Cale James1ORCID, Santos Arthur1ORCID, Frank Stephen2ORCID, Zimmerle Daniel1ORCID, Ghatpande Omkar2ORCID, Duggan Gerald1ORCID, Gerber Daniel3ORCID
Affiliation:
1. Department of Systems Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA 2. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA 3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94550, USA
Abstract
Recently, there has been considerable research interest in the potential for DC distribution systems in buildings instead of the traditional AC distribution systems. Due to the need for performing power conversions between DC and AC electricity, DC distribution may provide electrical efficiency advantages in some systems. To support comparative evaluations of AC-only, DC-only, and hybrid AC/DC distribution systems in buildings, a new modeling toolkit called the Building Electrical Efficiency Analysis Model (BEEAM) was developed and is described in this paper. To account for harmonics in currents or voltages arising from nonlinear devices, the toolkit implements harmonic power flow, along with nonlinear device behavioral descriptions derived from empirical measurements. This paper describes the framework, network equations, device representations, and an implementation of the toolkit in an open source software package, including a component library and graphical interface for creating circuits. Simulations of electrical behavior and device and system efficiencies using the toolkit are compared with experimental measurements of a small office environment in a variety of operating and load configurations. A detailed analysis of uncertainty estimation is also provided. Key findings were that a comparison of predicted versus measured efficiencies and power losses in the validation testbed using the initial toolkit implementation predicted device- and system-level efficiencies with reasonably good accuracy under both balanced and unbalanced AC scenarios. An uncertainty analysis also revealed that the maximum estimated error for system efficiency across all scenarios was 3%, and measured and modeled system efficiency agreed within the experimental uncertainty in approximately half of the scenarios. Based on the correspondence between simulation and measurement, the toolkit is proposed by the authors as a potentially useful tool for comparing efficiency in AC, DC, and hybrid AC/DC distribution systems in buildings.
Funder
United States Department of Energy
Subject
Energy (miscellaneous),Energy Engineering and Power Technology,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Control and Optimization,Engineering (miscellaneous),Building and Construction
Reference41 articles.
1. Hendron, R., and Eastment, M. (2006). Development of an Energy-Savings Calculation Methodology for Residential Miscellaneous Electric Loads, Technical Report. 2. Comstock, O., and Jarzomski, K. (2012, January 12–17). Consumption and saturation trends of residential miscellaneous end-use loads. Proceedings of the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study Energy Efficiency Buildings, Pacific Grove, CA, USA. 3. George, K. (2006). DC Power Production, Delivery and Utilization, Electric Power Research Institute. White Paper. 4. Boroyevich, D., Cvetković, I., Dong, D., Burgos, R., Wang, F., and Lee, F. (2010, January 20–22). Future Electronic Power Distribution Systems a Contemplative View. Proceedings of the 2010 12th International Conference on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Brasov, Romania. 5. Savage, P., Nordhaus, R.R., and Jamieson, S.P. (2010). DC Microgrids: Benefits and Barriers, Yale University, REIL, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Technical Report.
Cited by
3 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
|
|