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A New Coupling Solution for G3-PLC Employment in MV Smart Grids

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  • Giovanni Artale

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy)

  • Antonio Cataliotti

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy)

  • Valentina Cosentino

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy)

  • Dario Di Cara

    (Institute of Marine Engineering (INM), National Research Council (CNR), 90146 Palermo, Italy)

  • Riccardo Fiorelli

    (STMicroelectronics S.r.l., 20864 Agrate, Italy)

  • Salvatore Guaiana

    (Department of Engineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy)

  • Nicola Panzavecchia

    (Institute of Marine Engineering (INM), National Research Council (CNR), 90146 Palermo, Italy)

  • Giovanni Tinè

    (Institute of Marine Engineering (INM), National Research Council (CNR), 90146 Palermo, Italy)

Abstract

This paper proposes a new coupling solution for transmitting narrowband multicarrier power line communication (PLC) signals over medium voltage (MV) power lines. The proposed system is based on an innovative PLC coupling principle, patented by the authors, which exploits the capacitive divider embedded in voltage detecting systems (VDS) already installed inside the MV switchboard. Thus, no dedicated couplers have to be installed and no switchboard modifications or energy interruptions are needed. This allows a significant cost reduction of MV PLC implementation. A first prototype of the proposed coupling system was presented in previous papers: it had a 15 kHz bandwidth useful to couple single carrier PSK modulated PLC signals with a center frequency from 50–200 kHz. In this paper, a new prototype is developed with a larger bandwidth, up to 164 kHz, thus allowing to couple multicarrier G3-PLC signals using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) digital modulation. This modulation ensures a more robust communication even in harsh power line channels. In the paper, the new coupling system design is described in detail. A new procedure is presented for tuning the coupling system parameters at first installation in a generic MV switchboard. Finally, laboratory and in-field experimental test results are reported and discussed. The coupling performances are evaluated measuring the throughput and success rate in the case of both 18 and 36 subcarriers, in one of the different tone masks standardized for the FCC-above CENELEC band (that is, from 154.6875–487.5 kHz). The experimental results show an efficient behavior of the proposed coupler allowing a two-way communication of G3-PLC OFDM signals on MV networks.

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  • Giovanni Artale & Antonio Cataliotti & Valentina Cosentino & Dario Di Cara & Riccardo Fiorelli & Salvatore Guaiana & Nicola Panzavecchia & Giovanni Tinè, 2019. "A New Coupling Solution for G3-PLC Employment in MV Smart Grids," Energies, MDPI, vol. 12(13), pages 1-23, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jeners:v:12:y:2019:i:13:p:2474-:d:243324
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