Thursday 14th November 2024 at 2:30pm, in Salle Hooper, 3rd floor at IBM building, 14 Rue Jean Rostand, 91400 Orsay
Speakers: Veit Hagenmeyer, Professor of Energy Informatics with the Faculty of Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Title: The Smart Energy System Simulation and Control Center of the Energy Lab@KIT: an open research platform for automation and control
Abstract: As Europe’s largest research infrastructure for renewable energy, the Energy Lab is investigating the intelligent networking of environmentally friendly energy generators and storage methods. In addition, energy systems of the future are simulated and tested on the basis of real consumer data. A system network links electrical, thermal and chemical energy flows as well as new information and communication technologies. The Smart Energy System Simulation and Control Center (SEnSSiCC) is essentially the brain of the Energy Lab. In several sublaboratories, measurement currents are stored, monitored, and analyzed for the development of future energy systems by automation and control. The Smart Energy Control Laboratory (SESCL) of the SEnSSiCC allows to deploy novel automation and control methods using real hardware in a controlled laboratory environment and is conceived as an open research platform for automation and control. Exemplarily, two research implementations are presented in the talk: an angular droop control and a DC Microgrid control: Angular droop control is a grid-forming control approach that leverages the active-power-to-angle relation of inductive power grids and offers, based on theoretical considerations, various interesting properties, e.g. synchronization and power sharing with zero steady-state-frequency deviation. The SESCL allows to evaluate the theoretically derived properties under real-world conditions, highlights the challenges encountered in the step from theory and simulation to real-world applications and gives valuable insights in the applicability of the angular droop control. Furthermore, DC Microgrids are emerging as a key solution for integrating renewable energy sources and dynamic loads like EV charging stations and industrial systems. However, their large-scale adoption requires advanced control strategies to manage the dynamic behaviour of inverter-based systems. At the SESCL, innovative control approaches are developed for optimizing DC microgrids and supporting AC grids, aiming to enhance efficiency, resilience, and integration of renewable energy.
Bio: Since 2014, Veit Hagenmeyer is the Professor of Energy Informatics with the Faculty of Informatics, and the Director of the Institute for Automation and Applied Informatics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. He is actually the Spokesperson of the German national Helmholtz-Programme “Energy systems design”. He obtained his Doctoral degree in Automation at the L2S (University of Paris XI) in 2002. Thereafter he worked as control engineer at BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany, where he headed the Advanced Process Control Group. Finally, he was at BASF SE the Power Plant Director (3 plants & grids). His research interests include modelling, optimization and control of sector-integrated energy systems, machine learning based forecasting of uncertain demand and production in energy systems mainly driven by renewables, and integrated cyber-security of such systems.
