Objective
The needs of electrical energy increase continually in Europe that's why we observe today the development of interconnection and energy exchanges between European networks. This trend leads energy providers to a uniformisation of voltage levels and to require a better quality of supply energy. They nowadays face problems dealing with voltage imbalances and more especially in low voltage distribution networks. Moreover, European Community aims at deregulating energy market. Thus energy quality will be more and more difficult to control. Therefore on 5 th July 1994, the European standard EN 60 150, Specifications for voltages supplied by public distribution networks, was adopted in all Europe. But today energy providers are not able to strictly apply the electricity quality standard and above all EN 60 150 standard. Networks remain unbalanced, they still affect customers' and industrial plants' appliances. In addition deregulation could increase the phenomenon and bring hazardous effects. The aim of this project is therefore to design and develop a safe, reliable and cost effective balancing system. Power electronics and artificial intelligency combination will allow to regulate unbalanced power. The concept is: 1. to identify unbalanced network 2. to catch under used energy from a line and bring it to overused other. 3. to maintain balanced network in normal working conditions. The system will address both energy providers and industries. This system will allow energy providers to make networks conform to the European standard EN 60 150 and so to supply better quality of electricity. With the balancing system, customers will use the complete power supply for which they pay and appliances will no more be damaged by unbalanced networks. The balancing system concerns also all the industry: the balancing system is addressed to maintenance services. It is a global solution to the problems of production induced by voltage imbalance: the balancing system will be placed at the interface network / industrial plant and not at each interface network /appliance like current solutions. It can be noticed that the voltage balance system is especially adapted to SMEs because it should not need any maintenance.Areas of the BRITE EURAM WorkProgram covered by the proposal are the following: 1.4.1M & 1.4.2. M
Call for proposal
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69200 Vénissieux
France