LVDC Project
LVDC Project
LVDC Project
INTRO 766
Introduction
Problem Analysis
Low Voltage.
400 VDC: Widely used in data
centers.
325 VDC: Equal to the peak of AC
phase voltage.
230 VDC: No modification of the
resistive loads is required
DC is less In the
Mostly all
dangerou present
electrical The DC DC grids
Feasible DC s than AC there is a
devices failures are more
infrastructure for the wide range
work with are quite energy
investments human of
DC low efficient
body convertors
Causes
Effects
All Target for
Cheaper electrical national
Low demand
electrical devices energy
of convertors
devices must be efficiency
changed
State of the art
1879: Thomas Edison patented an incandescent electric lamp in 1879 on DC supply.
1887: Nikola Tesla created 7 patents with more than 20 articles on AC supply.
1888: AC versus DC solution battle was started by George Westinghouse, when he opposed Edisons
DC solution, and afterwards it was known as War of currents.
1910: The arrival of electronic technology with numbers of electronic devices which were used in war
and industrial applications.
End of 1900: Arrival of numerous home peripheral electronic devices, Due to the start of information
age as the key of technologies. All the electronic devices operate on DC supply.
Currently, the overall load of electricity due to electronic devices it is more than 70% and load will
increase up to 95% in the upcoming 2030.
Therefore, DC distribution systems are one of the promising solution for future power distribution
systems and it is easy to integrate with renewable Energy sources i.e. wind power generation
systems and PV.
State of the art
DC Lighting Demonstration in Philips Research Center (Eindhoven)
U. Boeke and M. Wendt, DC power grids for buildings, in DC Microgrids (ICDCM), 2015 IEEE First Int. Conf., June
2015, pp. 210214.
Comparison between AC and DC
DC systems in residential applications
Conclusions and Future Work
distributions systems
Development of standards
INTRO 766