Improved approach for electric vehicle rapid charging station placement and sizing using Google maps and binary lightning search algorithm

Md Mainul Islam; Hussain Shareef; Azah Mohamed

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189170

Improved approach for electric vehicle rapid charging station placement and sizing using Google maps and binary lightning search algorithm

PLoS One. 2017 Dec 8;12(12):e0189170. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189170. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Md Mainul Islam¹, Hussain Shareef², Azah Mohamed³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uttara University, Uttara Model Town, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Department of Electrical Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, 1 Al-Ain, UAE.
³ Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Systems Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.

Abstract

The electric vehicle (EV) is considered a premium solution to global warming and various types of pollution. Nonetheless, a key concern is the recharging of EV batteries. Therefore, this study proposes a novel approach that considers the costs of transportation loss, buildup, and substation energy loss and that incorporates harmonic power loss into optimal rapid charging station (RCS) planning. A novel optimization technique, called binary lightning search algorithm (BLSA), is proposed to solve the optimization problem. BLSA is also applied to a conventional RCS planning method. A comprehensive analysis is conducted to assess the performance of the two RCS planning methods by using the IEEE 34-bus test system as the power grid. The comparative studies show that the proposed BLSA is better than other optimization techniques. The daily total cost in RCS planning of the proposed method, including harmonic power loss, decreases by 10% compared with that of the conventional method.

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Automobiles*
Electricity*
Models, Theoretical

Grants and funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge the UAEU under Research Start-up (3) 2015. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.