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Tutorial Proposal

“Predictive Control of Power Converters in Hybrid Micro-Energy Systems”

Instructors:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Zhenbin Zhang, Shandong University, zbz@sud.edu.cn

Abstract: 

Clean and low carbon have become more and more prominent for the future power and energy systems. To this end, increasing the penetration rate of renewable energy is the critical way to alleviate the pressure of environment. Hybrid micro-energy systems (HMESs), integrated with multiple energies as well as their generation, conversion, transmission, and consumption, are considered as the one of the key technologies with the most potential to cope with energy transition and revolution. This, coupled with the need for higher efficiency, flexibility, and reliability, has boosted the use of power converters in HMESs. In addition, with the leap improvement of computing power for real-time controllers, model predictive control (MPC) with multi-objective optimization and advance prediction characteristics has been widely used in energy, power systems and other fields. MPC has demonstrated excellent dynamic and static response, multi-objective optimization and multi-condition adaptability in various power conversion systems in different applications, especially in HMESs with a variety of energies integration and multiple control targets.

This report will focus on predictive control for power converters in HMESs, which mainly includes high-quality predictive control for single converter and cooperative predictive control for converter clusters. Furthermore, the applications, challenges and development trends of predictive control for power converters in HMESs are prospected.

Biographies:

Zhenbin Zhang (S’13-M’16-SM’18) received the Ph.D. degree at the Institute for Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics (EAL), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, with “summa cum laude”. From 2016 to 2017, he worked as a Research Fellow and the group-leader for “Modern Control Strategies for Electrical Drives” group in EAL. Since 2017, he has held the position of full professor and International Collaboration Ambassador of Shandong University, China. From 2018 to 2022, he was a guest professor in TUM with the “August-Wilhelm Scheer Professorship Award.” In 2019, he was selected as a recipient of China's “1000-Talent-Plan”. In 2020, he was appointed as the director for “International Joint Center for Intelligent Energy and Advanced Energy Conversion Systems”. In 2022, he was also elected as IET Fellow.

Dr. Zhang is a recipient of the VDE-Award, Germany. He has authored 2 monographs and more than 160 papers. He has also made several invited presentations at international conferences and seminars. In addition, he was elected the general chair of IEEE-PRECEDE-2021 conference, and Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS. His research interests include power electronics and electrical drives, sustainable energy systems, smart- and microgrids.