Phase III IUCRC at University of Arkansas: Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems (GRAPES)

阿肯色大学第三阶段 IUCRC：并网先进电力电子系统中心 (GRAPES)

基本信息

批准号：
1939144
负责人：
Homer Mantooth
金额：
$ 50万
依托单位：
University of Arkansas
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-03-01 至 2025-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1939144&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Phase III IUCRC University Arkansas

项目摘要

The NSF IUCRC on GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronics (GRAPES) has been providing significant benefits to member companies and the nation's emerging electric power grid modernization efforts since 2009. GRAPES is advancing knowledge in grid-connected power electronics, producing much-needed talent for the industry, and developing world-first technologies that impact the electric power grid and other sectors where power electronics applications are expanding. The University of Arkansas (UA) and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (UWM) are the two university sites of GRAPES that seek to achieve the mission of accelerating the adoption and insertion of power electronics into the grid, in order to improve system stability, flexibility, robustness, and economy. The primary broader impact is to touch the lives of all Americans with technologies that lead to a modernized, but equally reliable electric power grid that is able to more directly incorporate increased penetrations of renewable energy sources than before. Further impacts are to provide the highest quality, differentiable integrated engineering education and research experience to meet the emerging workforce and technical needs of the nation's energy industry. Collaborative research is conducted in teams that include professors, graduate and undergraduate students, and industry experts. Both GRAPES' sites have influence at many levels: high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, working professionals, minority and underrepresented groups, and member companies.Application areas that GRAPES addresses include solid-state protection, power conditioning and conversion, interfacing renewables to the grid, and assessing the impacts and advantages of grid-connected power electronics. This work focuses on low-voltage (up to 480 V) and medium-voltage (up to 35 kV) areas that are most suitable for power electronics, therefore directly impacting distribution grids. Key focus areas are on distributed generation integration, AC and DC Microgrids, distribution and protection, high frequency magnetics, ancillary services, smart distribution, grid connected energy storage systems, and SiC-based converters. Fundamental technologies include power electronic packaging, control methods, gate drivers, and software tools that are robust and resilient in the presence of the high voltage and current conditions present in the grid. The UA and UWM sites provide complementary facilities and expertise. An example of a facility is the National Center for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (NCREPT), a 6 MVA test facility capable of 15 kV testing of research prototypes as well as commercial grade power electronics. The facilities also include a 350 kVA microgrid system, center for sustainable electrical energy systems, energy storage systems and interface, test setups for high voltage wide band gap devices, and DC protection setups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

自2009年以来，NSF IUCRC关于网格连接的先进电力电子设备（葡萄）一直为成员公司和美国新兴的电力电网现代化工作提供巨大好处。葡萄正在促进网格连接的电力电子设备的知识，在电动电力电子方面，为行业和发展中的电动技术提供了广泛的电动技术和其他电力网络，以及其他电力范围的电动机和其他电力。阿肯色大学（UA）和威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）是葡萄的两个大学地点，他们试图实现加速和插入电力电子设备的使命，以提高系统的稳定性，灵活性，鲁棒性和经济性。主要的广泛影响是通过导致现代化但同样可靠的电网的技术触动所有美国人的生活，该技术能够更直接地纳入可再生能源的渗透率，而不是以前。进一步的影响是提供最高质量，可区分的综合工程教育和研究经验，以满足国家能源行业的新兴劳动力和技术需求。合作研究由包括教授，研究生和本科生以及行业专家在内的团队进行。这两个葡萄的网站都在许多层面上都有影响力：高中生，本科生和研究生，工作专业人员，少数群体和代表性不足的团体以及成员公司。葡萄解决方案的应用领域包括固态保护，功率调理和转换，将可再生能源交织到网格中，并评估网格的影响和优势，并获得了电源和启动电源的影响和优势。这项工作着重于最适合电力电子的低压（最高480 V）和中压（最高35 kV）区域，因此直接影响分布网格。关键的重点领域是分布式生成集成，AC和DC微电网，分布和保护，高频磁化，辅助服务，智能分配，网格连接的储能系统和基于SIC的转换器。基本技术包括电力电子包装，控制方法，栅极驱动程序和软件工具，这些工具在存在高压和电网中存在的当前状况的情况下具有强大且有弹性。 UA和UWM站点提供互补的设施和专业知识。设施的一个例子是国家可靠电力传输中心（NCREPT），这是一个6 MVA测试设施，能够对研究原型进行15 kV测试以及商业级电源电子设备。该设施还包括一个350 kVA微电网系统，可持续电气能源系统，能源存储系统和界面中心，用于高压宽带宽带隙设备的测试设置以及DC保护设置。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过该基金会的知识分子功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务。