UK-India Bi-lateral Workshop on Sustainable Energy and Smart Grid.
Sustainable energy and Smart Grid technology are now very important to ensure national energy security. New advances in electric vehicles, embedded generation and storage, power electronics, wireless sensors, and communication technologies bring new challenges and innovation to the energy industry. The multidisciplinary nature and the impact of these technologies are important to investigate. The introduction of free market environments and CO2 targets raises further complex issues including demand side response and pricing. Hence, the realisation of these technologies will require a major effort from all stakeholders.
This workshop aims to bring researchers and academics in the field together to discuss current work carried out in related research groups in UK and India, key future challenges that still need addressing, and possible opportunities of collaboration. In particular, the workshop will seek to identify needs in India and UK that would benefit from bilateral collaborations, and further strengthen UK-India ties. Participants will be able to give presentations of their work, and discuss areas of collaborations.
Jing - UK-India Bi-lateral Workshop on Sustainable Energy and Smart Grid
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Saving energy through intelligent modelling,
control, and optimization
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Dr Jing Deng
http://jing-deng.com
Energy, Power and Intelligent Control
School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Queen's University Belfast
27/03/2014
j.deng@qub.ac.uk
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1. Background.
2. EPSRC/RCUK (EP/G042594/1), “UK-China Science Bridge in Sustainable
Energy and Built Environment (UC-SEBE)”.
3. 2010-2013, EPSRC (EP/G059489/1), “Thermal Management in Polymer
Processing”.
4. EPSRC (EP/L001063/1), “Intelligent Grid Interfaced Vehicle Eco-charging
(iGIVE)” (http://i-give.org.uk).
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Background
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• DU Battery Saver
• Easy Battery Saver
• Battery Widget Reborn
• JuiceDefender
• Battery Doctor
Background
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7Background
Renewable energy
resources
EV Battery
Economic dispatch
Openpmu.org
Fault detection and diagnosis
Model-based Model-based
Intelligent Energy and
health monitoring
Modelling, control,
and optimization
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Intelligent
system & control
Power system
Civil engineering
Queen’s Science Bridge: pursue energy and infrastructure issues in a
sustainable manner, via enhanced uptake of technology, knowledge and
expertise and strengthened collaborations
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Full time PhD Exchanged
students
Undergraduate Research fellows
Trained 30 PhD students, 20 exchange
students, 11 undergraduate students, and 4
research fellows.
Engineering leaderships
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Invited lectures Research training Honours
30 invited lectures and seminars, 10 research
training activities, 14 visiting professorships
Academic engagements
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1. Joint Laboratory on Energy and Automation with Baosteel, SAIC, SHU
Joint project won Science
and Technology Progress
Award by Shanghai
Municipal Government
Creation prize from
Shanghai International
Industrial Fair 2010
first prize of Chinese
Machinery Industry
Science and Technology
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2. Joint Laboratory on Autonomous Service Robots
Autonomous wheelchair project in Shanghai EXPO 2010
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1). 2010 International Conference on Life System
Modeling and Simulation& 2010 International
Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
Energy and Environment
3). UK-China Science Bridge Forum & 2nd International
Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable
Energy and Environment
2). UK-China workshop and PhD student
summer school on smart grids
3. Jointly organized international conferences/workshops
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Knowledge Transfers
Intelligent optimized algorithms
deployed in Shanghai
Waigaoqiao & Caohejing power
stations
Wireless data acquisition
deployed in Nantong
sewage treatment company
Hybrid network
measurement and
monitoring system used in
Baosteel company
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In situ testing of concrete
in the ‘Bird’s Nest
Stadium’ Beijing
QUB structural health
monitoring station at
Hangzhou Bay Bridge
QUB energy efficiency
monitoring system
Knowledge Transfers
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Knowledge Transfers
Crown cap surface
detection systems
for a Chinese
company, detecting
280,000 caps/hour.
Technologies have been used in
developing new modules for SUPMAX
Distributed Control System series for
energy and environment applications
by SAIC, deployed in many countries
and regions.
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The aim of the proposal is to develop methods and technologies to facilitate the
efficient use of thermal energy in existing polymer processing plant operation and in
the design of future plants.
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2. Thermal Management in Polymer Processing
Develop monitoring and control techniques to optimise energy use
and quality in extrusion
• Development of inferential techniques to monitor melting
stability.
• Development of low cost techniques to monitor power
consumption on-line
• Development of an ‘expert’ system for machine set-up and
on-line optimisation
WP3
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Melt pressure
Melt temperature
Feed rate
Barrel temperature
Screw speed
Viscosity
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Killion KTS-100 laboratory single-screw extruder
Geometrical screw parameters
DC motor power (kW) 2.24
Screw diameter (mm) 25
No. of barrel temperature zones 3
Additional temperature zones
connected
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Operating speed range (rpm) 0-115
Extruder Specifications
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- the extruder
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2. Thermal energy monitoring
- the heating and cooling
Zone 1, Heating band
1.296kw
Zone 2, Heating band
1.267kw
Zone 3, Heating band
1.238kw
Clamp ring heating band
0.4964kw
Adapter heating band
0.106kw
Controller circuit
0.0016kw
Other circuits
0.06kw
Cooling fan
0.04637kw
Heating and cooling elements of the single screw extruder
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L1 L2 NL3
L1:
• Controller circuits
• Zone 3 heating and cooling
• Motor drive power supply
L2:
• Zone 1 heating and cooling
• Zone 4 heating
L3:
• Zone 2 heating and cooling
• Zone 5 heating
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- power supply
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PID
Controller
Heating band
Cooling Fan Extruder
Barrel Zone
Temperature
Set
Temperature
AFM215-303
DURAKOOL Mercury
displacement contactor
Time-proportional control
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- the controller
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More close to
the actual
power
consumption
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Advantage:
• Additional power consumption measurement
• More accurate thermal energy monitoring
• Expensive power meter is not required
Separate
power
supply
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- the advantages
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Plot of energy consumption by different zones, screw speed at 10, cooling temperature at 25 degree
Temperature settings 170-180-190, material: LDPE 2102TN32W, MFR:2.5g/10min at 190 °C and 2.16 kg
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- monitor separate heating zones
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Extruder Killion KTS-100
Material SABIC LDPE 2100TN00W
Cooling temperature setting: 25
Temperature setting: 170-180-190
Screw speed: 40 rpm
Data file: 20120720C
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- monitor separate heating zones
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Those rising edges contain high-frequency energy
from harmonics of the PWM signal's frequency.
Because a motor presents an inductive load to the
inverter circuits, its inductance filters much of the
high-frequency energy. The high frequencies do little
to rotate the motor, but the energy in those
frequencies must go somewhere, and the high-
frequency energy dissipates as heat.
Measure PWM motor efficiency
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Motor Apparent
power
consumption
Power factor
Active power
Screw speed
Voltage
current
current
Screw speed
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V_a = R_a * I + K_v * w
R_a = 12.4222;
K_v = 0.0038
V_a = 12.4222 * I + 0.0038 * N
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Viscosity measurement
On-line rheometer In-line rheometer Off-line rheometer
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2. Viscosity monitoring
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Viscosity calculation
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Viscosity calculation
By substituting typical values
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Table 1: The comparison of forward and backward selection
Advantage Disadvantage
Forward Fast/less computing Constrained minimization
Backward Slow/much computing Unconstrained minimization
• Forward selection method (constrained minimisation)
y
X1X1 θ1
e = y – X1 θ1
y
X1X1
= y – X1 θ1-X2 θ2
X2
X2 θ2
e
θ 1
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1 2 k n
j
Selected terms
Stage 1: Forward model selection
Stage 2: Backward model refinement
- Loop 1 ……..
- Loop 2 ……..
- Loop 3 ……..
………
Candidate terms pool
Two-stage selection
• Remains efficient and effective from FRA
• Eliminates optimization constraint in FRA
• Reduces the training error without increasing model size
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Consider a general nonlinear model
Write in a matrix form
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A optimal design criterion
where is known as the design matrix
The new cost function becomes
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define
Some properties of R
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Also define some auxiliary matrices
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Recursive updating
Net contribution of a new term to the cost function
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Employing Branch and Bound
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The net contribution of a new term to the cost function
where
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WP1) Framework of energy and information flows
WP2) Power flow control-based battery model
WP3) Bi-directional traction drive charging system
WP4) Model for environment friendly EV charging
WP5) Optimal dispatching strategy for EV
WP6) Holistic system model for the impact of EV actors
3. Intelligent Grid Interfaced Vehicle Eco-charging
(iGIVE)
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Future collaboration
• Uk and china agree £20 million low carbon
innovation programme (announced on 06 March 2014).
• Energy Resilient Manufacturing (EPSRC, 04/04/2014)
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For those who are not familiar with the polymer extrusion process, from this picture, the polymer pellets are fed through this hopper, and then pushed by the screw from the feed zone to the die to form different shapes. The polymer is melted mainly by the shear stress from the screw and partly from the barrel heating. So in this picture, the feed rate, screw speed and barrel temperature settings can be regarded as system inputs, and the melt pressure, temperature and viscosity are system outputs. It is clear that the whole system is open loop system, in order to get proper melt properties, technicians have to speed long time to properly adjust these inputs, energy and material are then wasted during this procedure.
The energy consumption methods were developed for this single screw extruder, and some of its specifications are shown in the tables on the right hand side.
The heating and cooling power of each elements was first investigated, this is done through several trials where different configurations of heating and cooling were operated, and the power consumption was monitored by a HIOKI 3169 power meter. As you can see here, the main power was consumed at these three heating zones.
This extruder was supplied with three phase power, and each phase provides electricity power to different components. So from this slide, you can see that the motor power was supplied by phase 1, while the other two phases are mainly used for heating power supply.
The heating power of each zone is regulated through this eurotherm 808 controller
And the traditional pid algorithm is used. As the heating band is connected to a displacement contactor, so the Pulse width modulation is utilized to incorporate the controller outputs. In the bottom left figure, the positive signal means heating, while the negative signal indicate fan cooling. By multiplying this control signal with the associated heating or cooling power, we can then easily obtain the power consumption at each zone of this extruder.
In order to verify the power consumption obtained through the controller, a HIOKI 3169 power meter is also connected. And in the right picture, the green line is the power consumption through the new methods, while the blue line is the measurements through the power meter. You can see that at the first few minutes, these two values are exactly the same, but there is some difference after around 5 minutes. This is because at the first few minutes, the heating was on for most of the time, while after this warm up period, the heating switches between on and off frequently to maintain the set temperature. The maximum sample rate of the power meter is 1Hz and this is not enough to capture all changes. That’s why the measured value is lower than the actual value.
Additionally, the developed method is also able to monitor additional heating elements which is difficult for a single power meter.
The ability to monitor power consumption at each heating zone provide the opportunity to investigate the power distribution along the extruder, so here you can see that zone 1 (blue line) which is near the water cooling and material feeding consumption more than half of the total thermal energy.
Another representation of the thermal energy consumption at different heating zone.
A DC motor is installed on this extruder to drive the screw. Its controller is eurotherm 512C which also use PID algorithm to regulate the screw speed.
The controller output is also converted to PWM signal. In this picture, the power in terminal is connect to phase 1 supply, while the power out terminal is connected to the DC motor.
Due to the PWM regulation, the power factor of this drive system is quite low, and it is usually lower than 0.5.
In order to monitor the motor apparent power consumption, it active power and power factor need to be known. Fortunately, the motor power factor is found to have a linear relationship with the screw speed, and its active power can be calculated through the armature voltage and armature current. The current can be directly read through one of the controller terminals, and the voltage is found to be related with screw speed and armature current.
So here shows you the model of armature voltage which is derived through the first principal model of DC motor, and only two parameters need to be identified.
The forward selection is fast and needs less computing, but there exist a constraint in model optimization process, which will be shown later. By contrast, backward elimination doesn’t involve any constraint, but it needs more computation, thus it is much slower. Now, I’d like to show you why the forward selection involves a constrained optimization. Suppose y is the target vector, at the first step, x1 was chosen as the best one to interpret y; at the second step, one more term need to be chosen to interpret y together with x1. As x2 is selected, the coefficient of x1 is also changed. That means, the contribution of later selected terms are calculated based on previous selected ones. Thus the forward selection is a constrain minimisation process.
The two-stage selection in this paper has proven to be able to eliminate the constraint involved in forward selection. The fist stage is the same as FRA (Fast recursive algorithm), and the second stage is a iterative model refinement process. Now, let’s look at the right picture, supposed n terms / hidden nodes have been selection by the forward stage. At the second stage, the contribution of all the selected terms are to be reviewed, suppose the k^th one is the term of interest, it will first be moved to the n^th position as it was the last selected term. Then the contribution of candidate terms are recalculated based on the new n-1 selected terms. If any of them is more significant than the shift one, they will be interchange. And this process is continued until all the selected model terms are significant than those remaining in the candidate pool.Some advantages of two-stage selection includes Remains efficient and effective from FRAEliminates optimization constraint in FRAReduces the training error without increasing model size