Research Projects

1. International research project – Delivering renewal and innovation to mass vehicle electrification enabled by V2X technologies (Drive2X)

• PhD student: Carina Engstrom, Koen Linders (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: H2020 call: System approach to achieve optimised Smart EV Charging and V2G flexibility in mass-deployment conditions (2ZERO), HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-03, 2023-2027

• DriVe2X will develop new knowledge, tools, models, and technologies to cope with a V2X-based mass EV deployment future. It will also study and consolidate the understanding on the behavioural uncertainties linked to V2X and develop policy tools to support increasingly complex decisions on V2X roll-out in European smart cities.

• Modelling, evaluating, and testing the effects of V1G and V2G charging strategies on the EV battery degradation and lifetime. Development of low power, solar integrated direct DC EV charger capable of V2G and standalone operation  

• Project partners: 19 partners including TU Delft, LUT Finland, Nottingham Trent University, TU Dortmund, Magnumcap, e-motion, Isle of Wight, TNO, PRE Power Developers, Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft DLR, ICONS and Tecnalia

2. International research project – Flexible energy systems Leveraging the Optimal integration of EVs deployment Wave (FLOW)

• PhD student: Istvan Bara (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: H2020 call: System approach to achieve optimised Smart EV Charging and V2G flexibility in mass-deployment conditions (2ZERO), HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-03, 2022-2026

• FLOW boosts EV optimal integration into energy systems by delivering optimal smart charging/V2X concepts, configurations and operational mechanisms. The solutions are demonstrated in a vast range of scenarios (V1G, V2G, V2B, V2H), contexts (private/public/semi-public, urban vs rural) and EVs (car, small- & medium-commercial) thus fostering replication and scalability of viable solutions to support mobility and energy actors.

• Development of smart charging algorithms for V1G and V2G including grid congestion evaluation and multi-criteria assessment model including emissions, grid impact, user convenience and charging cost

• Project partners: 26 partners including TU Delft, IREC, TU Denmark, Heliox, Enel-X, Endesa, RWTH Aachen, R2M, TERNA, AVERE, BMW, Eaton, TU Chemnitz, Terna

3. National research project – Intelligent flexibility through integrated energy storage (FLEXInet)

• PhD student: Siddhesh Shinde (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• PhD student: Dario Slaifstein (jointly supervised with Laura Ramirez as co-promoter, Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: RVO MOOI, Netherlands, 2021-2025

• Intelligent flexibility through integrated power electronics hardware and smart energy management of solar, electric vehicles, batteries, second life batteries and heat pump.  

• Project partners: TU Delft, PRE, DC opportunities, TU Eindhoven, Summerheat, Recoy, LeydenJar, VITO, Green Village, HET cooperatie, Heliox, drTen, Emmett Green

4.   Industrial research project – Smart charging of EVs using artificial intelligence

• PhD student: Bagas Priambodo (jointly supervised with Mathijs de Weert, Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: Shell, 2023-2027

• Develop artificial intelligence based multi-objective charging algorithms for smart charging of electric vehicles that are scalable for millions of EVs and demonstrate the functionality using hardware-in-loop and test locations of EV chargers

• Project partners: Shell, TU Delft, Shell Recharge

5.  National research project – Flexible Energy Communities: Coupling e-mobility and energy communities (FlexECs)

• PhD student: Alvaro Menendez Agudin (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: NWO KIC call: Energy transition as a socio-technical challenge, 2022-2026

• FlexECs addresses the two challenges of energy communities due grid capacity and physical proximity by investigating the option of transporting electricity via electric vehicles (EVs) within ECs from a technical, social, economic and legal perspective

• Developing and modelling the EV and charging systems for enabling flexible energy communities and quantifying the EV flexibility for smart charging and V2G

• Project partners: 12 partners including TU Delft, Wageningen Univ., Groningen Univ., Heliox, Arcadis, Generation.Energy, Municipality Wageningen, Municipality Groningen, Trip Advocaten, Esri NL, ING Bank

6. International research project – Flexible energy systems Leveraging the Optimal integration of EVs deployment Wave (FLOW)

• PhD student: Istvan Bara (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: H2020 call: System approach to achieve optimised Smart EV Charging and V2G flexibility in mass-deployment conditions (2ZERO), HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-03, 2022-2026

• FLOW boosts EV optimal integration into energy systems by delivering optimal smart charging/V2X concepts, configurations and operational mechanisms. The solutions are demonstrated in a vast range of scenarios (V1G, V2G, V2B, V2H), contexts (private/public/semi-public, urban vs rural) and EVs (car, small- & medium-commercial) thus fostering replication and scalability of viable solutions to support mobility and energy actors.

• Development of smart charging algorithms for V1G and V2G including grid congestion evaluation and multi-criteria assessment model including emissions, grid impact, user convenience and charging cost

• Project partners: 26 partners including TU Delft, IREC, TU Denmark, Heliox, Enel-X, Endesa, RWTH Aachen, R2M, TERNA, AVERE, BMW, Eaton, TU Chemnitz, Terna

7. National research project – NEON: New (transport) Energy Outlook in the Netherlands

• PhD student: Nikos Damianakis (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: NWO crossover call, 2020-2024

• Interdisciplinary research based on agent based models to forecast the future energy and transport landscape of the Netherlands. TU Delft will investigate the impact of electric mobility, charging infrastructure, energy storage and renewable energy on the Dutch electricity and energy infrastructure. 

• Project partners: 35 Dutch partners including TU Delft, TU Eindhoven,  Tilburg Univ., Amsterdam Univ. of Appl. Scien., Erasmus University Rotterdam, Heliox, Damen Shipyards, VDL, eSCF

8.  National research project – Power Charging Stations of the future - Heavy Duty Energy Hub for Electric mobility (Plugin)

• PhD student: Leila Shams Ashkezari (jointly supervised with Neil-York Smith as co-promoter, Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: EZK, 2023-2027

• Plug-in will develop Energy Hubs for electrified heavy-duty vehicles through fundamental research in the domains of microgrid architecture, power electronics and energy management. 

• Energy Hub System Architecture and layout; Component design for multiport power electronics for direct grid connection to medium voltage for energy hub; Energy Management System for Energy Hub using Artificial Intelligence

• Project partners: Elaad, Shell, KEMA, TU Delft, HAN

9. International research project – Demonstrating lower polluting solutions for sustainable airports across Europe (TULIPS)

• PhD student: Yawen Liang (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: H2020 call: Green airports and ports as multimodal hubs for sustainable and smart mobility, LC-GD-5-1-2020, 2022-2026

• Showcasing innovative technologies and concepts which have been identified as key Green Deal drivers (namely through connected multimodal mobility, smart grid energy solutions, use of alternative fuels, better use of materials in a circular economy) through the implementation of large-scale real-life demonstrations in the challenging airport environment.

• Solar powered, modular, intelligent, direct DC charging infrastructure for electric vehicles such as aircraft, airport logistics (automated) vehicles, drones, as well as for public transport and carpooling.

• Project partners: 29 partners including TU Delft, Schiphol, Avinor, Sintef, Hermes, Politecnico di Torino, TNO, Fraunhofer, KLM, NLR, Manchester Metr. Univ., DHL, BAM Infra, Univ. of Antwerp, Port of Amsterdam, Nobian

1. International research project – IEA PVPS Task 18 (Task 18 Off-Grid and Edge-of-Grid Photovoltaic Systems)

• Funding agency: RVO, 2022-2023

• Evaluation of Software Tools for Standalone Microgrid Design and Optimization

• Project partners: Trama Tecnoambiental (TTA), Ekistica, GSES Global Sustainable Energy Solutions, TU Delft 

2. International research project – Hybrid minigrid

• Postdoc: Gautam Rituraj

• Funding agency: Innovate UK - Energy Catalyst EC7, 2020-2022

• Development of off-grid solar powered EV charging system with possibility of direct charging of local battery 

• Project partners: TU Delft, Modularity grid, Imperial college, Brill power, Mandulis energy  

3. National research project – Flexgrid

• PhD student: Wiljan Vermeer (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: TKI Topsector Urban Energy, 2018-2022

• Design of a power electronic converter and power management system to optimally use the flexibility of future homes with PV, battery storage, EV and heat pumps

• Project partners: TU Delft, PRE Power Developers, Stedin, Alfen

4. International research project – Trolley 2.0

• PhD student: Ibrahim Diab (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: Electric Mobility Europe, 2018-2021

• To increase the sustainability of the Arnhem trolley bus gird through the use of energy storage, PV panels and development of DC EV chargers 

• Project partners: TU Delft, TU Dresden, University of Gdansk, University of Szeged, PRE Power Developers, Szegedi Közlekedési Kf, Barnimer Busgesellschaft, evopro, Trolley Motion

5. International research project – Orchestrating Smart Charging in mass Deployment

• PhD student: Yunhe Yu (jointly supervised with Pavol Bauer as promoter)

• Funding agency: Electric Mobility Europe, 2018-2021

• Development of smart charging algorithms for congestion management, reduced costs and increased use of renewable power for EVs in mass deployment

• Project partners: TU Delft, Austria Institute of Technology, ElaadNL, EBG Compelo, Driivz

6. National research project – EV powered PV smart grid 

• Funding agency: TKI Urban Energy, 2013-2018

• 1 PhD TU Delft: Development of 10kW bidirectional V2G DC charger for electric vehicles using SiC devices that can be powered by both solar energy and AC grid (CCS/CHAdeMO compatible)

• Project partners: ABB, PRE Power Developers, Last Mile solutions

7. University research project – Solar e-bike charging station

• Funding agency: TU Delft, climate-KIC, 3e fonds, 2013-2018

• Design and development of a solar e-bike charging station on the university campus with AC, DC and wireless charging of e-bikes.