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Hindawi Publishing CorporationMathematical Problems in EngineeringVolume 2013 Article ID 807034 7 pageshttpdxdoiorg1011552013807034
Research ArticleModeling of an EDLC with Fractional Transfer Functions UsingMittag-Leffler Equations
J J Quintana1 A Ramos2 and I Nuez1
1 Electronic and Automatic Engineering Department University of Las Palmas de GC 35017 Las Palmas Spain2 Process Engineering Department University of Las Palmas de GC 35017 Las Palmas Spain
Correspondence should be addressed to J J Quintana jjquintanadieaulpgces
Received 31 July 2013 Revised 30 October 2013 Accepted 31 October 2013
Academic Editor Bashir Ahmad
Copyright copy 2013 J J Quintana et al This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Licensewhich permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited
Electrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLC) also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors are devices in which diffusionphenomena play an important role For this reason their modeling using integer-order differential equations does not yieldsatisfactory results The higher the temporal intervals are the more problems and errors there will be when using integer-orderdifferential equations In this paper a simple model of a real capacitor formed by an ideal capacitor and two parasitic resistorsone in series and the second in parallel is used The proposed model is based on the ideal capacitor adding a fractional behaviorto its capacity The transfer function obtained is simple but contains elements in fractional derivatives which makes its resolutionin the time domain difficult The temporal response has been obtained through the Mittag-Leffler equations being adapted to anyEDLC input signal Different charge and discharge signals have been tested on the EDLC allowing modeling of this device in thecharge rest and discharge stages The obtained parameters are few but identify with high precision the charge rest and dischargeprocesses in these devices
1 Introduction
In recent years the growing demand for new electrical energystoring systems has led to a remarkable development ofelectrochemical double-layer capacitors (EDLC) The EDLCare devices capable of storing energy and are characterized bytheir very rapid response during charge and discharge cycleswhich allows them to provide high power and to hold a highnumber of charge and discharge cycles
The complementary qualities of EDLC and batteries haveallowed the generation of numerous hybrid applicationsfor energy recovery or storage systems Energy storage inEDLC is not supported by chemical processes Moreoversupercapacitors have a high life cycle and do not needany maintenance From the above it can be concluded thatbecause of their characteristics these devices have raised greatinteresting expectations [1 2]
It is a usual procedure that the dynamics of real systemsare modeled by differential equations In most cases thedifferential equations are based on conventional derivatives
yielding sufficiently accuratemathematicalmodels Howeverthere are a variety of systems or phenomena in which math-ematical models based on ordinary differential equations donot provide satisfactory solutions One of these elements isthe EDLC It is this case when the application of modelsbased on fractional derivatives studied in the field of frac-tional calculus is very usefulThese equations are called frac-tional differential equations
Inmultiple fields of physics there are numerous examplesin which a differential equation is used as fractionalmodelingtool [3ndash5] This is very common when considering geometryconditions with fractal dimension and distributed parametersystems [6ndash8] In the field of electric power the currentthrough a capacitor is proportional to the noninteger-orderintegral for electric current [9 10] An electric networkcomposed of infinite RC elements can be modeled throughfractional differential equations [11 12]
In this paper a dynamic fractional model for EDLC isdeveloped based on a differential equation with fractional
2 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
derivatives This equation has been solved by means ofthe Laplace transform and in order to obtain the timedomain solution used the Mittag-Leffler function 119864
120572120573(119911)
The solution has been obtained for a unitary step input andfor a generic input This model has been applied to an EDLCfor its identification in long time periods obtaining verysatisfactory results
This paper is organized as follows Section 2 shows a briefreview of fractional calculus in Section 3 the fractionalmodelof the EDLC is deduced Section 4 expounds the experimentaldata and the discussion finally in Section 5 the conclusionsare presented
2 Brief Review of Fractional Calculus
In this section is exposed a brief mathematical backgroundof the fractional calculus [3] for understanding methodsresults and conclusions presented in this paper The fol-lowing are some of the most popular functions definitionsand properties of the fractional calculus
21 Riemann-Liouville Derivative Definition Riemann-Liou-ville definition expresses the fractional derivative as a timeconvolution integral
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) =
1
Γ (119899 minus 120572)
119889119899
119889119905119899int
119905
119886
119891 (120591)
(119905 minus 120591)120572minus119899+1
119889120591
(119899 minus 1 lt 120572 lt 119899)
(1)
where 119899 is an integer and 120572 is a real number and the frac-tional derivative order
22 CaputoDerivativeDefinition Caputo definition of a frac-tional derivative of a function is
119862
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) =
1
Γ (119899 minus 120572)int
119905
119886
119891(119899)
(120591)
(119905 minus 120591)120572+1minus119899
119889120591
(119899 minus 1 le 120572 lt 119899)
(2)
where 119899 is an integer and 120572 is a real number and the frac-tional derivative order
23 Grunwald-Letnikov Derivative Definition Grunwald-Letnikov definition is a numerical form of the fractionalderivative
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) = lim
ℎrarr0
1
ℎ120572
[(119905minus119886)ℎ]
sum
119895=0
(minus1)119895
(120572
119895)119891 (119905 minus 119895ℎ) (3)
24 Laplace Transform of the Fractional Derivative An inter-esting property of the fractional derivative operator is itsLaplace transform
119871 [0119863120572
119905119891 (119905)] = int
infin
0
119890minus119904119905
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) 119889119905
= 119904120572
119865 (119904) minus
119899minus1
sum
119896=0
119904119896
119886119863120572minus119896minus1
119905119891 (119905)
1003816100381610038161003816119905=0
(119899 minus 1 lt 120572 le 119899)
(4)
where if initial conditions are null it yields
119871 [0119863120572
119905119891 (119905)] = 119904
120572
119865 (119904) (5)
25 Mittag-Leffler Function The two-parameter function oftheMittag-Leffler type 119864
120572120573(119911) plays a very important role in
the fractional calculus and is defined as
119864120572120573
(119911) =
infin
sum
119896=0
119911119896
Γ (120572119896 + 120573)(120572 gt 0 120573 gt 0) (6)
The exponential function 119890119911 is a particular case of theMittag-
Leffler function
11986411
(119911) =
infin
sum
119896=0
119911119896
Γ (119896 + 1)= 119890119911
(7)
One of the main uses of the Mittag-Leffler function comesfrom the following Laplace transform
119871 [119905120572119896+120573minus1
119864(119896)
120572120573(plusmn119886119905120572
)] = int
infin
0
119890minus119904119905
119905120572119896+120573minus1
119864(119896)
120572120573(plusmn119886119905120572
) 119889119905
=119896119904120572minus120573
(119904120572 ∓ 119886)
119896+1
(8)
where 119896 indicates the order of the derivative of the Mittag-Leffler function
119864(119896)
120572120573(119911) =
119889119896
119889119911119896119864120572120573
(119911) (9)
Considering the specific case for 119896 = 0 yields
119871 [119905120573minus1
119864120572120573
(plusmn119886119905120572
)] =119904120572minus120573
119904120572 ∓ 119886 (10)
And by substituting theMittag-Leffler function the followingis obtained
119871[119905120573minus1
infin
sum
119896=0
(plusmn119886119905120572
)119896
Γ (120572119896 + 120573)] =
119904120572minus120573
119904120572 ∓ 119886 (11)
Which will be the relation used for calculating the solution inthe time domain
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
3 Dynamic Model of EDLC
Electric modeling of supercapacitors is an active line ofinvestigation with numerous contributions in the last fewyears [13ndash15] There are not yet totally satisfactory modelsapplicable to any operating mode of the EDLC allowing theEDLC behavior to be observed and simulated That is thereason why models based on heuristic techniques are mainlyused [14] Models based on the physics processes occurringin EDLC are also used [15] Most of the models obtainedmake use of a considerable number of variables either of ahigh number of passive elements or of fractional variablesmodels [16ndash18] Either way testing these devices during longtime periods has allowed observing their behavior and theirapplicability to energy storage systems Charge and dischargeare rapid processes occurring in a short time interval sincehigh currents are used
Due to diffusion processes resulting after the chargingphase The evolution of the processes occurring inside theEDLC generates a nonreversing thermal dissipation whichmakes the assessment of losses in the device possible Thisprocess would occur in both the EDLC charge and dischargephases
The model of EDLC has been considered as single input(current) single output (voltage) system The electric modelused comes from the model applied to ideal capacitors usinginteger-order differential equations Subsequently a modelbased on fractional order differential equations is proposed
31 Electric Model of a Conventional Capacitor The mathe-matical equation relating the current and the voltage at theterminals of a real capacitor can be deduced from an electriccircuit made of an ideal capacitor and two parasitic resistors[9 19]
Naming the series resistor as 1198771and the parallel one
as 1198772and operating the following equation is obtained
1198772sdot 119862
119889V (119905)119889119905
+ V (119905) = (1198771+ 1198772) sdot 119894 (119905) + 119877
1sdot 1198772sdot 119862
119889119894 (119905)
119889119905
(12)
with V(119905) being the voltage at the terminals of the EDLCand 119894(119905) its current The transfer function or impedance inthe Laplace domainwill be calculated as the quotient betweenvoltage and current
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= 1198771(
119904
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
+1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
(1
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
(13)
Gathering the constants of the transfer function the followingis obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904
119904 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904 + 119886) (14)
where
1198961= 1198771 119896
2=
1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
119886 =1
1198772sdot 119862
(15)
(t)
i(t)
C EPR (R2)
ESR (R1)
Figure 1 Equivalent circuit of a real capacitor
The differential equation resulting from the transfer functioncan be solved for simple and complex signals using theexisting simulation programs
32 Electric Model of EDLC The model obtained for realcapacitor (12) fits well to the behavior of real capacitors in awide range of frequencies However if applied to an EDLCthe adjustment is unsatisfactory especially when long timeperiods are analyzed
Many papers [3 10 20] exposed the fractional behaviorof EDLC Thus by changing the ideal capacitor in the modelin Figure 1 for a fractional one the voltage and the currentacross such fractional capacitor are given by
119862 sdot 119863120572V (119905) = 119894 (119905) (16)
Applying this relation to the circuit of Figure 1 it gives adifferential equation of the form
0119863120572
119905V (119905) + 119886 sdot V (119905) = 119896
1sdot0119863120572
119905119894 (119905) + 119896
2sdot 119894 (119905) (17)
Applying Laplace transform (5) and assuming that the initialconditions are zero the following is obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904120572
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904120572 + 119886) (18)
This transfer function is similar to (14) differing only inthe fractional aspect of the capacitor In this case differ-ential equation (17) is of fractional order being definedby variable 120572 This equation can be solved for simple andcomplex signals input using Mittag-Leffler functions [3 21]
33 Solution to the Fractional Equation of EDLC In thissection the solution to (18) will be deduced in the timedomain for a variable input over time
331 Solution to a Unitary Step Input Multiplying transferfunction (18) by the unit step input 119894(119904) = 1119904 the responseof the system to this signal is obtained
V (119904) = 1198961
119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886
997904rArr V (119905) = 1198961119871minus1
[119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886] + 1198962119871minus1
[119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886]
(19)
Applying relation (11)
V (119905) = 1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)+ 1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
(20)
The response in the time domain to a unit step input isobtained
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
332 Solution to a Generic Input The response can beextended to any input For this purpose the superpositionof steps displaced by the sampling period of the input signalhas been used Thus for the first input signal the temporalresponse matches the response obtained by (20) So for thefirst time interval
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
0 le 119905 le 119879
(21)
As the input signal changes in the second period its responsecan be obtained by superposing to the previous response asecond step delayed in time a period 119879 resulting in
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
+ (119894 (119879) minus 119894 (0)) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962(119905 minus 119879)
120572
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
119879 le 119905 le 2119879
(22)
Generalizing (22) for a generic time interval 119873 the followingis obtained
V (119905) =
119873
sum
119896=0
(119894 (119896119879) minus 119894 ((119896 minus 1) 119879))
sdot [
[
1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+ 1198962(119905 minus 119896119879)
120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
]
]
119873119879 le 119905 le (119873 + 1) 119879
(23)
where the initial conditions are zero
4 Experimental Results Identificationand Discussion
41 Instruments The experimental data have been obtainedin the laboratory making a test circuit and recording the
V
A
DC +minus
5Ω
DischargeChargeEDLC
Figure 2 Schematic diagram of the experimental circuit
electrical variables of the EDLC The analyzed EDLC man-ufactured by ELNA has a capacity of 47 F and a voltage of25 V
Figure 2 shows the electric circuit for the charge-dis-charge control A Crouzet Millenium III PLC has controlledthe charge and discharge switches Voltage and current datahave been recorded through a NI USB-6009 data logger byNational Instruments
42 Experimental Results Several tests have been performedto the EDLC in order to monitor voltage and current signalsBecause EDLC have memory effect just before each test theyhave been short-circuited for 24 hours to ensure zero initialconditions
The testswere performed as follows In a first phase lastinga few minutes was charged at a constant current between20mA and 09A until the voltage reached 24V in the secondphase the current is cut off and left to rest for 8 hours toallow the voltage stabilization and finally in the third phaseis discharged through a resistance of 5 ohm until it was fullydischarged
Although the sampling period of voltage and currenthas been recorded at 01 s sfor identification purposes ithas been considered a 5 s sampling time Figure 3 showsthe experimental data obtained The evolution of voltagein the EDLC throughout the process can be appreciated inFigure 3(a) while the current supplied at Figure 3(b) Theyare observed perfectly the three stages described above
43 Identification The coefficients for the proposed modelhave been defined according to transfer function (18) andimplemented using (23)
For identification the MATLAB simulation software wasused The function created has as input parameters 120572 119886 119896
1
and 1198962 Using (23) the voltage response is generated taking
all the current samples as input The voltage is comparedwith the experimental data through standard deviation (24)generating the output of the function Using this function inthe command fminsearch of MATLAB sought parametersare obtained For implementing (23) the terms 119895 of the summay be truncated without causing significant errors
The index chosen in this paper is the standard deviationdefined as
120590119889=
radicsum119873
119894=1(119910119894exp minus 119910
119894cal)2
119873 minus 1
(24)
where 119873 is the number of samples and subindexes whichrepresent the values obtained experimentally and calculatedaccording to the model
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
Volta
ge (V
)
Time (s)
2
15
1
05
0
minus05
times104
0 05 15 2 25 31
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(a)
0 05 15 2 25 3
Time (s)1
05
0
minus05
minus15
minus1Curr
ent (
A)
times104
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(b)
Figure 3 Charge-rest-discharge at 20mA
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 817
19
21
23
25
27
Time (h)
Volta
ge (V
)
Charge (09A)-rest (best identification with
Calculated values
Experimental data
120572 = 1)
Figure 4 Fitting in the resting phase using integer derivatives
Table 1 Charge + rest identification parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 002A 0941 5974119864 minus 08 0239 0202 2079119864 minus 02
2 01 A 0952 8671119864 minus 08 0261 0187 1297119864 minus 02
3 05 A 0950 102119864 minus 07 0267 0170 1354119864 minus 02
4 05 A 0950 1020119864 minus 07 0250 0169 1338119864 minus 02
5 09 A 0953 9917119864 minus 08 0228 0164 1096119864 minus 02
The EDLC identification has been carried out calculatingthe parameters 120572 119886 119896
1 and 119896
2in (18) and has consisted
of two parts first from the beginning until just beforedischarged and second from the discharge onwards Thisis because the internal processes in the EDLC are different[22 23]
The data obtained for the charge and rest phases areshown in Table 1
Considering relation (15) between the parameters cal-culated with the resistors and the capacity in Figure 1 theparameters obtained for the charge are in Table 2
In order to compare the adjustment with traditionalmodel (14) in which the fractional index is an integer Table 3and Figure 4 show the best fit to the data of test number 5setting 120572 = 1
Table 2 Charge + rest electrical parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 002A 0941 495 0239 3382119864 + 06
2 01 A 0952 535 0261 2155119864 + 06
3 05 A 0950 589 0267 1660119864 + 06
4 05 A 0950 591 0250 1660119864 + 06
5 09 A 0953 608 0228 1658119864 + 06
Table 3 Parameters calculated for test number 5 setting 120572 = 1
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 1000 900 1262 2191119864 + 04
Table 4 Discharge identification parameters
Test 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 0975 9600119864 minus 08 0235 0187 1391119864 minus 02
2 0981 9282119864 minus 08 0244 0185 1281119864 minus 02
3 0978 8427119864 minus 08 0267 0192 2068119864 minus 02
4 0976 1556119864 minus 07 0251 0202 2338119864 minus 02
5 0982 1032119864 minus 07 0240 0171 1285119864 minus 02
Table 5 Discharge electrical parameters
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 0975 534 0235 1950119864 + 06
2 0981 540 0244 1996119864 + 06
3 0978 521 0267 2278119864 + 06
4 0976 495 0251 1297119864 + 06
5 0982 585 0240 1656119864 + 06
Operating in a similar way the parameters for thedischarge through the 5Ω resistor are in Table 4
Of which the following electric parameters are obtainedin Table 5
The following figures show graphically the fit of theproposed model with experimental data Figure 5 shows thatthe model has a good precision all over the time range testedFigures 6 and 8 display the model and the experimentaldata in the charging and discharging phases Figures 4 and 7show the fit when using transfer functions with integer and
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
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[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
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2 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
derivatives This equation has been solved by means ofthe Laplace transform and in order to obtain the timedomain solution used the Mittag-Leffler function 119864
120572120573(119911)
The solution has been obtained for a unitary step input andfor a generic input This model has been applied to an EDLCfor its identification in long time periods obtaining verysatisfactory results
This paper is organized as follows Section 2 shows a briefreview of fractional calculus in Section 3 the fractionalmodelof the EDLC is deduced Section 4 expounds the experimentaldata and the discussion finally in Section 5 the conclusionsare presented
2 Brief Review of Fractional Calculus
In this section is exposed a brief mathematical backgroundof the fractional calculus [3] for understanding methodsresults and conclusions presented in this paper The fol-lowing are some of the most popular functions definitionsand properties of the fractional calculus
21 Riemann-Liouville Derivative Definition Riemann-Liou-ville definition expresses the fractional derivative as a timeconvolution integral
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) =
1
Γ (119899 minus 120572)
119889119899
119889119905119899int
119905
119886
119891 (120591)
(119905 minus 120591)120572minus119899+1
119889120591
(119899 minus 1 lt 120572 lt 119899)
(1)
where 119899 is an integer and 120572 is a real number and the frac-tional derivative order
22 CaputoDerivativeDefinition Caputo definition of a frac-tional derivative of a function is
119862
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) =
1
Γ (119899 minus 120572)int
119905
119886
119891(119899)
(120591)
(119905 minus 120591)120572+1minus119899
119889120591
(119899 minus 1 le 120572 lt 119899)
(2)
where 119899 is an integer and 120572 is a real number and the frac-tional derivative order
23 Grunwald-Letnikov Derivative Definition Grunwald-Letnikov definition is a numerical form of the fractionalderivative
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) = lim
ℎrarr0
1
ℎ120572
[(119905minus119886)ℎ]
sum
119895=0
(minus1)119895
(120572
119895)119891 (119905 minus 119895ℎ) (3)
24 Laplace Transform of the Fractional Derivative An inter-esting property of the fractional derivative operator is itsLaplace transform
119871 [0119863120572
119905119891 (119905)] = int
infin
0
119890minus119904119905
119886119863120572
119905119891 (119905) 119889119905
= 119904120572
119865 (119904) minus
119899minus1
sum
119896=0
119904119896
119886119863120572minus119896minus1
119905119891 (119905)
1003816100381610038161003816119905=0
(119899 minus 1 lt 120572 le 119899)
(4)
where if initial conditions are null it yields
119871 [0119863120572
119905119891 (119905)] = 119904
120572
119865 (119904) (5)
25 Mittag-Leffler Function The two-parameter function oftheMittag-Leffler type 119864
120572120573(119911) plays a very important role in
the fractional calculus and is defined as
119864120572120573
(119911) =
infin
sum
119896=0
119911119896
Γ (120572119896 + 120573)(120572 gt 0 120573 gt 0) (6)
The exponential function 119890119911 is a particular case of theMittag-
Leffler function
11986411
(119911) =
infin
sum
119896=0
119911119896
Γ (119896 + 1)= 119890119911
(7)
One of the main uses of the Mittag-Leffler function comesfrom the following Laplace transform
119871 [119905120572119896+120573minus1
119864(119896)
120572120573(plusmn119886119905120572
)] = int
infin
0
119890minus119904119905
119905120572119896+120573minus1
119864(119896)
120572120573(plusmn119886119905120572
) 119889119905
=119896119904120572minus120573
(119904120572 ∓ 119886)
119896+1
(8)
where 119896 indicates the order of the derivative of the Mittag-Leffler function
119864(119896)
120572120573(119911) =
119889119896
119889119911119896119864120572120573
(119911) (9)
Considering the specific case for 119896 = 0 yields
119871 [119905120573minus1
119864120572120573
(plusmn119886119905120572
)] =119904120572minus120573
119904120572 ∓ 119886 (10)
And by substituting theMittag-Leffler function the followingis obtained
119871[119905120573minus1
infin
sum
119896=0
(plusmn119886119905120572
)119896
Γ (120572119896 + 120573)] =
119904120572minus120573
119904120572 ∓ 119886 (11)
Which will be the relation used for calculating the solution inthe time domain
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
3 Dynamic Model of EDLC
Electric modeling of supercapacitors is an active line ofinvestigation with numerous contributions in the last fewyears [13ndash15] There are not yet totally satisfactory modelsapplicable to any operating mode of the EDLC allowing theEDLC behavior to be observed and simulated That is thereason why models based on heuristic techniques are mainlyused [14] Models based on the physics processes occurringin EDLC are also used [15] Most of the models obtainedmake use of a considerable number of variables either of ahigh number of passive elements or of fractional variablesmodels [16ndash18] Either way testing these devices during longtime periods has allowed observing their behavior and theirapplicability to energy storage systems Charge and dischargeare rapid processes occurring in a short time interval sincehigh currents are used
Due to diffusion processes resulting after the chargingphase The evolution of the processes occurring inside theEDLC generates a nonreversing thermal dissipation whichmakes the assessment of losses in the device possible Thisprocess would occur in both the EDLC charge and dischargephases
The model of EDLC has been considered as single input(current) single output (voltage) system The electric modelused comes from the model applied to ideal capacitors usinginteger-order differential equations Subsequently a modelbased on fractional order differential equations is proposed
31 Electric Model of a Conventional Capacitor The mathe-matical equation relating the current and the voltage at theterminals of a real capacitor can be deduced from an electriccircuit made of an ideal capacitor and two parasitic resistors[9 19]
Naming the series resistor as 1198771and the parallel one
as 1198772and operating the following equation is obtained
1198772sdot 119862
119889V (119905)119889119905
+ V (119905) = (1198771+ 1198772) sdot 119894 (119905) + 119877
1sdot 1198772sdot 119862
119889119894 (119905)
119889119905
(12)
with V(119905) being the voltage at the terminals of the EDLCand 119894(119905) its current The transfer function or impedance inthe Laplace domainwill be calculated as the quotient betweenvoltage and current
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= 1198771(
119904
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
+1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
(1
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
(13)
Gathering the constants of the transfer function the followingis obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904
119904 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904 + 119886) (14)
where
1198961= 1198771 119896
2=
1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
119886 =1
1198772sdot 119862
(15)
(t)
i(t)
C EPR (R2)
ESR (R1)
Figure 1 Equivalent circuit of a real capacitor
The differential equation resulting from the transfer functioncan be solved for simple and complex signals using theexisting simulation programs
32 Electric Model of EDLC The model obtained for realcapacitor (12) fits well to the behavior of real capacitors in awide range of frequencies However if applied to an EDLCthe adjustment is unsatisfactory especially when long timeperiods are analyzed
Many papers [3 10 20] exposed the fractional behaviorof EDLC Thus by changing the ideal capacitor in the modelin Figure 1 for a fractional one the voltage and the currentacross such fractional capacitor are given by
119862 sdot 119863120572V (119905) = 119894 (119905) (16)
Applying this relation to the circuit of Figure 1 it gives adifferential equation of the form
0119863120572
119905V (119905) + 119886 sdot V (119905) = 119896
1sdot0119863120572
119905119894 (119905) + 119896
2sdot 119894 (119905) (17)
Applying Laplace transform (5) and assuming that the initialconditions are zero the following is obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904120572
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904120572 + 119886) (18)
This transfer function is similar to (14) differing only inthe fractional aspect of the capacitor In this case differ-ential equation (17) is of fractional order being definedby variable 120572 This equation can be solved for simple andcomplex signals input using Mittag-Leffler functions [3 21]
33 Solution to the Fractional Equation of EDLC In thissection the solution to (18) will be deduced in the timedomain for a variable input over time
331 Solution to a Unitary Step Input Multiplying transferfunction (18) by the unit step input 119894(119904) = 1119904 the responseof the system to this signal is obtained
V (119904) = 1198961
119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886
997904rArr V (119905) = 1198961119871minus1
[119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886] + 1198962119871minus1
[119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886]
(19)
Applying relation (11)
V (119905) = 1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)+ 1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
(20)
The response in the time domain to a unit step input isobtained
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
332 Solution to a Generic Input The response can beextended to any input For this purpose the superpositionof steps displaced by the sampling period of the input signalhas been used Thus for the first input signal the temporalresponse matches the response obtained by (20) So for thefirst time interval
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
0 le 119905 le 119879
(21)
As the input signal changes in the second period its responsecan be obtained by superposing to the previous response asecond step delayed in time a period 119879 resulting in
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
+ (119894 (119879) minus 119894 (0)) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962(119905 minus 119879)
120572
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
119879 le 119905 le 2119879
(22)
Generalizing (22) for a generic time interval 119873 the followingis obtained
V (119905) =
119873
sum
119896=0
(119894 (119896119879) minus 119894 ((119896 minus 1) 119879))
sdot [
[
1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+ 1198962(119905 minus 119896119879)
120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
]
]
119873119879 le 119905 le (119873 + 1) 119879
(23)
where the initial conditions are zero
4 Experimental Results Identificationand Discussion
41 Instruments The experimental data have been obtainedin the laboratory making a test circuit and recording the
V
A
DC +minus
5Ω
DischargeChargeEDLC
Figure 2 Schematic diagram of the experimental circuit
electrical variables of the EDLC The analyzed EDLC man-ufactured by ELNA has a capacity of 47 F and a voltage of25 V
Figure 2 shows the electric circuit for the charge-dis-charge control A Crouzet Millenium III PLC has controlledthe charge and discharge switches Voltage and current datahave been recorded through a NI USB-6009 data logger byNational Instruments
42 Experimental Results Several tests have been performedto the EDLC in order to monitor voltage and current signalsBecause EDLC have memory effect just before each test theyhave been short-circuited for 24 hours to ensure zero initialconditions
The testswere performed as follows In a first phase lastinga few minutes was charged at a constant current between20mA and 09A until the voltage reached 24V in the secondphase the current is cut off and left to rest for 8 hours toallow the voltage stabilization and finally in the third phaseis discharged through a resistance of 5 ohm until it was fullydischarged
Although the sampling period of voltage and currenthas been recorded at 01 s sfor identification purposes ithas been considered a 5 s sampling time Figure 3 showsthe experimental data obtained The evolution of voltagein the EDLC throughout the process can be appreciated inFigure 3(a) while the current supplied at Figure 3(b) Theyare observed perfectly the three stages described above
43 Identification The coefficients for the proposed modelhave been defined according to transfer function (18) andimplemented using (23)
For identification the MATLAB simulation software wasused The function created has as input parameters 120572 119886 119896
1
and 1198962 Using (23) the voltage response is generated taking
all the current samples as input The voltage is comparedwith the experimental data through standard deviation (24)generating the output of the function Using this function inthe command fminsearch of MATLAB sought parametersare obtained For implementing (23) the terms 119895 of the summay be truncated without causing significant errors
The index chosen in this paper is the standard deviationdefined as
120590119889=
radicsum119873
119894=1(119910119894exp minus 119910
119894cal)2
119873 minus 1
(24)
where 119873 is the number of samples and subindexes whichrepresent the values obtained experimentally and calculatedaccording to the model
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
Volta
ge (V
)
Time (s)
2
15
1
05
0
minus05
times104
0 05 15 2 25 31
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(a)
0 05 15 2 25 3
Time (s)1
05
0
minus05
minus15
minus1Curr
ent (
A)
times104
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(b)
Figure 3 Charge-rest-discharge at 20mA
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 817
19
21
23
25
27
Time (h)
Volta
ge (V
)
Charge (09A)-rest (best identification with
Calculated values
Experimental data
120572 = 1)
Figure 4 Fitting in the resting phase using integer derivatives
Table 1 Charge + rest identification parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 002A 0941 5974119864 minus 08 0239 0202 2079119864 minus 02
2 01 A 0952 8671119864 minus 08 0261 0187 1297119864 minus 02
3 05 A 0950 102119864 minus 07 0267 0170 1354119864 minus 02
4 05 A 0950 1020119864 minus 07 0250 0169 1338119864 minus 02
5 09 A 0953 9917119864 minus 08 0228 0164 1096119864 minus 02
The EDLC identification has been carried out calculatingthe parameters 120572 119886 119896
1 and 119896
2in (18) and has consisted
of two parts first from the beginning until just beforedischarged and second from the discharge onwards Thisis because the internal processes in the EDLC are different[22 23]
The data obtained for the charge and rest phases areshown in Table 1
Considering relation (15) between the parameters cal-culated with the resistors and the capacity in Figure 1 theparameters obtained for the charge are in Table 2
In order to compare the adjustment with traditionalmodel (14) in which the fractional index is an integer Table 3and Figure 4 show the best fit to the data of test number 5setting 120572 = 1
Table 2 Charge + rest electrical parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 002A 0941 495 0239 3382119864 + 06
2 01 A 0952 535 0261 2155119864 + 06
3 05 A 0950 589 0267 1660119864 + 06
4 05 A 0950 591 0250 1660119864 + 06
5 09 A 0953 608 0228 1658119864 + 06
Table 3 Parameters calculated for test number 5 setting 120572 = 1
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 1000 900 1262 2191119864 + 04
Table 4 Discharge identification parameters
Test 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 0975 9600119864 minus 08 0235 0187 1391119864 minus 02
2 0981 9282119864 minus 08 0244 0185 1281119864 minus 02
3 0978 8427119864 minus 08 0267 0192 2068119864 minus 02
4 0976 1556119864 minus 07 0251 0202 2338119864 minus 02
5 0982 1032119864 minus 07 0240 0171 1285119864 minus 02
Table 5 Discharge electrical parameters
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 0975 534 0235 1950119864 + 06
2 0981 540 0244 1996119864 + 06
3 0978 521 0267 2278119864 + 06
4 0976 495 0251 1297119864 + 06
5 0982 585 0240 1656119864 + 06
Operating in a similar way the parameters for thedischarge through the 5Ω resistor are in Table 4
Of which the following electric parameters are obtainedin Table 5
The following figures show graphically the fit of theproposed model with experimental data Figure 5 shows thatthe model has a good precision all over the time range testedFigures 6 and 8 display the model and the experimentaldata in the charging and discharging phases Figures 4 and 7show the fit when using transfer functions with integer and
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
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[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
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Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 3
3 Dynamic Model of EDLC
Electric modeling of supercapacitors is an active line ofinvestigation with numerous contributions in the last fewyears [13ndash15] There are not yet totally satisfactory modelsapplicable to any operating mode of the EDLC allowing theEDLC behavior to be observed and simulated That is thereason why models based on heuristic techniques are mainlyused [14] Models based on the physics processes occurringin EDLC are also used [15] Most of the models obtainedmake use of a considerable number of variables either of ahigh number of passive elements or of fractional variablesmodels [16ndash18] Either way testing these devices during longtime periods has allowed observing their behavior and theirapplicability to energy storage systems Charge and dischargeare rapid processes occurring in a short time interval sincehigh currents are used
Due to diffusion processes resulting after the chargingphase The evolution of the processes occurring inside theEDLC generates a nonreversing thermal dissipation whichmakes the assessment of losses in the device possible Thisprocess would occur in both the EDLC charge and dischargephases
The model of EDLC has been considered as single input(current) single output (voltage) system The electric modelused comes from the model applied to ideal capacitors usinginteger-order differential equations Subsequently a modelbased on fractional order differential equations is proposed
31 Electric Model of a Conventional Capacitor The mathe-matical equation relating the current and the voltage at theterminals of a real capacitor can be deduced from an electriccircuit made of an ideal capacitor and two parasitic resistors[9 19]
Naming the series resistor as 1198771and the parallel one
as 1198772and operating the following equation is obtained
1198772sdot 119862
119889V (119905)119889119905
+ V (119905) = (1198771+ 1198772) sdot 119894 (119905) + 119877
1sdot 1198772sdot 119862
119889119894 (119905)
119889119905
(12)
with V(119905) being the voltage at the terminals of the EDLCand 119894(119905) its current The transfer function or impedance inthe Laplace domainwill be calculated as the quotient betweenvoltage and current
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= 1198771(
119904
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
+1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
(1
119904 + (1 (1198772sdot 119862))
)
(13)
Gathering the constants of the transfer function the followingis obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904
119904 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904 + 119886) (14)
where
1198961= 1198771 119896
2=
1198771+ 1198772
1198772sdot 119862
119886 =1
1198772sdot 119862
(15)
(t)
i(t)
C EPR (R2)
ESR (R1)
Figure 1 Equivalent circuit of a real capacitor
The differential equation resulting from the transfer functioncan be solved for simple and complex signals using theexisting simulation programs
32 Electric Model of EDLC The model obtained for realcapacitor (12) fits well to the behavior of real capacitors in awide range of frequencies However if applied to an EDLCthe adjustment is unsatisfactory especially when long timeperiods are analyzed
Many papers [3 10 20] exposed the fractional behaviorof EDLC Thus by changing the ideal capacitor in the modelin Figure 1 for a fractional one the voltage and the currentacross such fractional capacitor are given by
119862 sdot 119863120572V (119905) = 119894 (119905) (16)
Applying this relation to the circuit of Figure 1 it gives adifferential equation of the form
0119863120572
119905V (119905) + 119886 sdot V (119905) = 119896
1sdot0119863120572
119905119894 (119905) + 119896
2sdot 119894 (119905) (17)
Applying Laplace transform (5) and assuming that the initialconditions are zero the following is obtained
119866 (119904) =119881 (119904)
119868 (119904)= (1198961
119904120572
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
1
119904120572 + 119886) (18)
This transfer function is similar to (14) differing only inthe fractional aspect of the capacitor In this case differ-ential equation (17) is of fractional order being definedby variable 120572 This equation can be solved for simple andcomplex signals input using Mittag-Leffler functions [3 21]
33 Solution to the Fractional Equation of EDLC In thissection the solution to (18) will be deduced in the timedomain for a variable input over time
331 Solution to a Unitary Step Input Multiplying transferfunction (18) by the unit step input 119894(119904) = 1119904 the responseof the system to this signal is obtained
V (119904) = 1198961
119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886+ 1198962
119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886
997904rArr V (119905) = 1198961119871minus1
[119904120572minus1
119904120572 + 119886] + 1198962119871minus1
[119904minus1
119904120572 + 119886]
(19)
Applying relation (11)
V (119905) = 1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)+ 1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
(20)
The response in the time domain to a unit step input isobtained
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
332 Solution to a Generic Input The response can beextended to any input For this purpose the superpositionof steps displaced by the sampling period of the input signalhas been used Thus for the first input signal the temporalresponse matches the response obtained by (20) So for thefirst time interval
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
0 le 119905 le 119879
(21)
As the input signal changes in the second period its responsecan be obtained by superposing to the previous response asecond step delayed in time a period 119879 resulting in
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
+ (119894 (119879) minus 119894 (0)) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962(119905 minus 119879)
120572
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
119879 le 119905 le 2119879
(22)
Generalizing (22) for a generic time interval 119873 the followingis obtained
V (119905) =
119873
sum
119896=0
(119894 (119896119879) minus 119894 ((119896 minus 1) 119879))
sdot [
[
1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+ 1198962(119905 minus 119896119879)
120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
]
]
119873119879 le 119905 le (119873 + 1) 119879
(23)
where the initial conditions are zero
4 Experimental Results Identificationand Discussion
41 Instruments The experimental data have been obtainedin the laboratory making a test circuit and recording the
V
A
DC +minus
5Ω
DischargeChargeEDLC
Figure 2 Schematic diagram of the experimental circuit
electrical variables of the EDLC The analyzed EDLC man-ufactured by ELNA has a capacity of 47 F and a voltage of25 V
Figure 2 shows the electric circuit for the charge-dis-charge control A Crouzet Millenium III PLC has controlledthe charge and discharge switches Voltage and current datahave been recorded through a NI USB-6009 data logger byNational Instruments
42 Experimental Results Several tests have been performedto the EDLC in order to monitor voltage and current signalsBecause EDLC have memory effect just before each test theyhave been short-circuited for 24 hours to ensure zero initialconditions
The testswere performed as follows In a first phase lastinga few minutes was charged at a constant current between20mA and 09A until the voltage reached 24V in the secondphase the current is cut off and left to rest for 8 hours toallow the voltage stabilization and finally in the third phaseis discharged through a resistance of 5 ohm until it was fullydischarged
Although the sampling period of voltage and currenthas been recorded at 01 s sfor identification purposes ithas been considered a 5 s sampling time Figure 3 showsthe experimental data obtained The evolution of voltagein the EDLC throughout the process can be appreciated inFigure 3(a) while the current supplied at Figure 3(b) Theyare observed perfectly the three stages described above
43 Identification The coefficients for the proposed modelhave been defined according to transfer function (18) andimplemented using (23)
For identification the MATLAB simulation software wasused The function created has as input parameters 120572 119886 119896
1
and 1198962 Using (23) the voltage response is generated taking
all the current samples as input The voltage is comparedwith the experimental data through standard deviation (24)generating the output of the function Using this function inthe command fminsearch of MATLAB sought parametersare obtained For implementing (23) the terms 119895 of the summay be truncated without causing significant errors
The index chosen in this paper is the standard deviationdefined as
120590119889=
radicsum119873
119894=1(119910119894exp minus 119910
119894cal)2
119873 minus 1
(24)
where 119873 is the number of samples and subindexes whichrepresent the values obtained experimentally and calculatedaccording to the model
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
Volta
ge (V
)
Time (s)
2
15
1
05
0
minus05
times104
0 05 15 2 25 31
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(a)
0 05 15 2 25 3
Time (s)1
05
0
minus05
minus15
minus1Curr
ent (
A)
times104
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(b)
Figure 3 Charge-rest-discharge at 20mA
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 817
19
21
23
25
27
Time (h)
Volta
ge (V
)
Charge (09A)-rest (best identification with
Calculated values
Experimental data
120572 = 1)
Figure 4 Fitting in the resting phase using integer derivatives
Table 1 Charge + rest identification parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 002A 0941 5974119864 minus 08 0239 0202 2079119864 minus 02
2 01 A 0952 8671119864 minus 08 0261 0187 1297119864 minus 02
3 05 A 0950 102119864 minus 07 0267 0170 1354119864 minus 02
4 05 A 0950 1020119864 minus 07 0250 0169 1338119864 minus 02
5 09 A 0953 9917119864 minus 08 0228 0164 1096119864 minus 02
The EDLC identification has been carried out calculatingthe parameters 120572 119886 119896
1 and 119896
2in (18) and has consisted
of two parts first from the beginning until just beforedischarged and second from the discharge onwards Thisis because the internal processes in the EDLC are different[22 23]
The data obtained for the charge and rest phases areshown in Table 1
Considering relation (15) between the parameters cal-culated with the resistors and the capacity in Figure 1 theparameters obtained for the charge are in Table 2
In order to compare the adjustment with traditionalmodel (14) in which the fractional index is an integer Table 3and Figure 4 show the best fit to the data of test number 5setting 120572 = 1
Table 2 Charge + rest electrical parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 002A 0941 495 0239 3382119864 + 06
2 01 A 0952 535 0261 2155119864 + 06
3 05 A 0950 589 0267 1660119864 + 06
4 05 A 0950 591 0250 1660119864 + 06
5 09 A 0953 608 0228 1658119864 + 06
Table 3 Parameters calculated for test number 5 setting 120572 = 1
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 1000 900 1262 2191119864 + 04
Table 4 Discharge identification parameters
Test 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 0975 9600119864 minus 08 0235 0187 1391119864 minus 02
2 0981 9282119864 minus 08 0244 0185 1281119864 minus 02
3 0978 8427119864 minus 08 0267 0192 2068119864 minus 02
4 0976 1556119864 minus 07 0251 0202 2338119864 minus 02
5 0982 1032119864 minus 07 0240 0171 1285119864 minus 02
Table 5 Discharge electrical parameters
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 0975 534 0235 1950119864 + 06
2 0981 540 0244 1996119864 + 06
3 0978 521 0267 2278119864 + 06
4 0976 495 0251 1297119864 + 06
5 0982 585 0240 1656119864 + 06
Operating in a similar way the parameters for thedischarge through the 5Ω resistor are in Table 4
Of which the following electric parameters are obtainedin Table 5
The following figures show graphically the fit of theproposed model with experimental data Figure 5 shows thatthe model has a good precision all over the time range testedFigures 6 and 8 display the model and the experimentaldata in the charging and discharging phases Figures 4 and 7show the fit when using transfer functions with integer and
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
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[1] A Burke ldquoUltracapacitors why how and where is the technol-ogyrdquo Journal of Power Sources vol 91 no 1 pp 37ndash50 2000
[2] B Conway Electrochemical Supercapacitors Scientific Funda-mentals and Technological Applications Kluwer Academic NewYork NY USA 1999
[3] I Podlubny Fractional Differential Equations vol 198 ofMath-ematics in Science and Engineering Academic Press San DiegoCalif USA 1999
[4] K B Oldham and J SpanierThe Fractional Calculus vol 1047Academic Press New York NY USA 1974
[5] K S Miller and B Ross An Introduction to the FractionalCalculus and Fractional Differential Equations John Wiley ampSons New York NY USA 1993
[6] A Oustaloup A Ballouk and B Bansard ldquoPartial differentialequations and non integer derivationrdquo in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics pp166ndash173 October 1993
[7] B Mbodje and G Montseny ldquoBoundary fractional derivativecontrol of the wave equationrdquo IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl vol 40 no 2 pp 378ndash382 1995
[8] G Montseny J Audounet and B Mbodje ldquoOptimal model offractional integrators and application to systems with fadingmemoryrdquo in Proceedings of the International Conference onSystems Man and Cybernetics pp 65ndash70 October 1993
[9] S Westerlund and L Ekstam ldquoCapacitor theoryrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol 1 no 5 pp826ndash839 1994
[10] N Bano and R A Hashmi ldquoElectrical studies of leaves overwide frequency rangerdquo IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation vol 3 no 2 pp 229ndash232 1996
[11] G E Carlson and C A Halijak ldquoSimulation of the fractionalderivate operator and the fractional integral operator radic119904rdquo inProceedings of the Central State Simulation Council Meeting vol45 no 7 Kansas State University May 1961
[12] T C Haba M Martos G Ablart and P Bidan ldquoComposantselectroniques a impedance fractionnairerdquo in Proceedings of theESAIM conferece on Fractional Differential Systems ModelsMethods and Applications vol 5 pp 99ndash109 1998
[13] J J Quintana A Ramos and I Nuez ldquoIdentificaction of thefractional impedance of ultracapacitorsrdquo in Proceedings of theIFACWorkshop (FDArsquo06) Oporto Portugal 2006
[14] L Zubieta and R Bonert ldquoCharacterization of double-layercapacitors for power electronics applicationsrdquo IEEE Transac-tions on Industry Applications vol 36 no 1 pp 199ndash205 2000
[15] N Bertrand J Sabatier O Briat and J-M Vinassa ldquoEmbeddedfractional nonlinear supercapacitor model and its parametricestimation methodrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electron-ics vol 57 no 12 pp 3991ndash4000 2010
[16] R Martın J J Quintana A Ramos and I de la Nuez ldquoMod-eling of electrochemical double layer capacitors by means offractional impedancerdquo Journal of Computational and Nonlinear
Dynamics vol 3 no 2 Article ID 021303 pp 21303ndash214002008
[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
4 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
332 Solution to a Generic Input The response can beextended to any input For this purpose the superpositionof steps displaced by the sampling period of the input signalhas been used Thus for the first input signal the temporalresponse matches the response obtained by (20) So for thefirst time interval
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
0 le 119905 le 119879
(21)
As the input signal changes in the second period its responsecan be obtained by superposing to the previous response asecond step delayed in time a period 119879 resulting in
V (119905) = 119894 (0) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962sdot 119905120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot 119905120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
+ (119894 (119879) minus 119894 (0)) sdot (1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+1198962(119905 minus 119879)
120572
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886(119905 minus 119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1))
119879 le 119905 le 2119879
(22)
Generalizing (22) for a generic time interval 119873 the followingis obtained
V (119905) =
119873
sum
119896=0
(119894 (119896119879) minus 119894 ((119896 minus 1) 119879))
sdot [
[
1198961
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 1)
+ 1198962(119905 minus 119896119879)
120572
sdot
infin
sum
119895=0
(minus119886 sdot (119905 minus 119896119879)120572
)119895
Γ (120572 sdot 119895 + 120572 + 1)
]
]
119873119879 le 119905 le (119873 + 1) 119879
(23)
where the initial conditions are zero
4 Experimental Results Identificationand Discussion
41 Instruments The experimental data have been obtainedin the laboratory making a test circuit and recording the
V
A
DC +minus
5Ω
DischargeChargeEDLC
Figure 2 Schematic diagram of the experimental circuit
electrical variables of the EDLC The analyzed EDLC man-ufactured by ELNA has a capacity of 47 F and a voltage of25 V
Figure 2 shows the electric circuit for the charge-dis-charge control A Crouzet Millenium III PLC has controlledthe charge and discharge switches Voltage and current datahave been recorded through a NI USB-6009 data logger byNational Instruments
42 Experimental Results Several tests have been performedto the EDLC in order to monitor voltage and current signalsBecause EDLC have memory effect just before each test theyhave been short-circuited for 24 hours to ensure zero initialconditions
The testswere performed as follows In a first phase lastinga few minutes was charged at a constant current between20mA and 09A until the voltage reached 24V in the secondphase the current is cut off and left to rest for 8 hours toallow the voltage stabilization and finally in the third phaseis discharged through a resistance of 5 ohm until it was fullydischarged
Although the sampling period of voltage and currenthas been recorded at 01 s sfor identification purposes ithas been considered a 5 s sampling time Figure 3 showsthe experimental data obtained The evolution of voltagein the EDLC throughout the process can be appreciated inFigure 3(a) while the current supplied at Figure 3(b) Theyare observed perfectly the three stages described above
43 Identification The coefficients for the proposed modelhave been defined according to transfer function (18) andimplemented using (23)
For identification the MATLAB simulation software wasused The function created has as input parameters 120572 119886 119896
1
and 1198962 Using (23) the voltage response is generated taking
all the current samples as input The voltage is comparedwith the experimental data through standard deviation (24)generating the output of the function Using this function inthe command fminsearch of MATLAB sought parametersare obtained For implementing (23) the terms 119895 of the summay be truncated without causing significant errors
The index chosen in this paper is the standard deviationdefined as
120590119889=
radicsum119873
119894=1(119910119894exp minus 119910
119894cal)2
119873 minus 1
(24)
where 119873 is the number of samples and subindexes whichrepresent the values obtained experimentally and calculatedaccording to the model
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
Volta
ge (V
)
Time (s)
2
15
1
05
0
minus05
times104
0 05 15 2 25 31
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(a)
0 05 15 2 25 3
Time (s)1
05
0
minus05
minus15
minus1Curr
ent (
A)
times104
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(b)
Figure 3 Charge-rest-discharge at 20mA
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 817
19
21
23
25
27
Time (h)
Volta
ge (V
)
Charge (09A)-rest (best identification with
Calculated values
Experimental data
120572 = 1)
Figure 4 Fitting in the resting phase using integer derivatives
Table 1 Charge + rest identification parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 002A 0941 5974119864 minus 08 0239 0202 2079119864 minus 02
2 01 A 0952 8671119864 minus 08 0261 0187 1297119864 minus 02
3 05 A 0950 102119864 minus 07 0267 0170 1354119864 minus 02
4 05 A 0950 1020119864 minus 07 0250 0169 1338119864 minus 02
5 09 A 0953 9917119864 minus 08 0228 0164 1096119864 minus 02
The EDLC identification has been carried out calculatingthe parameters 120572 119886 119896
1 and 119896
2in (18) and has consisted
of two parts first from the beginning until just beforedischarged and second from the discharge onwards Thisis because the internal processes in the EDLC are different[22 23]
The data obtained for the charge and rest phases areshown in Table 1
Considering relation (15) between the parameters cal-culated with the resistors and the capacity in Figure 1 theparameters obtained for the charge are in Table 2
In order to compare the adjustment with traditionalmodel (14) in which the fractional index is an integer Table 3and Figure 4 show the best fit to the data of test number 5setting 120572 = 1
Table 2 Charge + rest electrical parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 002A 0941 495 0239 3382119864 + 06
2 01 A 0952 535 0261 2155119864 + 06
3 05 A 0950 589 0267 1660119864 + 06
4 05 A 0950 591 0250 1660119864 + 06
5 09 A 0953 608 0228 1658119864 + 06
Table 3 Parameters calculated for test number 5 setting 120572 = 1
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 1000 900 1262 2191119864 + 04
Table 4 Discharge identification parameters
Test 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 0975 9600119864 minus 08 0235 0187 1391119864 minus 02
2 0981 9282119864 minus 08 0244 0185 1281119864 minus 02
3 0978 8427119864 minus 08 0267 0192 2068119864 minus 02
4 0976 1556119864 minus 07 0251 0202 2338119864 minus 02
5 0982 1032119864 minus 07 0240 0171 1285119864 minus 02
Table 5 Discharge electrical parameters
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 0975 534 0235 1950119864 + 06
2 0981 540 0244 1996119864 + 06
3 0978 521 0267 2278119864 + 06
4 0976 495 0251 1297119864 + 06
5 0982 585 0240 1656119864 + 06
Operating in a similar way the parameters for thedischarge through the 5Ω resistor are in Table 4
Of which the following electric parameters are obtainedin Table 5
The following figures show graphically the fit of theproposed model with experimental data Figure 5 shows thatthe model has a good precision all over the time range testedFigures 6 and 8 display the model and the experimentaldata in the charging and discharging phases Figures 4 and 7show the fit when using transfer functions with integer and
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
References
[1] A Burke ldquoUltracapacitors why how and where is the technol-ogyrdquo Journal of Power Sources vol 91 no 1 pp 37ndash50 2000
[2] B Conway Electrochemical Supercapacitors Scientific Funda-mentals and Technological Applications Kluwer Academic NewYork NY USA 1999
[3] I Podlubny Fractional Differential Equations vol 198 ofMath-ematics in Science and Engineering Academic Press San DiegoCalif USA 1999
[4] K B Oldham and J SpanierThe Fractional Calculus vol 1047Academic Press New York NY USA 1974
[5] K S Miller and B Ross An Introduction to the FractionalCalculus and Fractional Differential Equations John Wiley ampSons New York NY USA 1993
[6] A Oustaloup A Ballouk and B Bansard ldquoPartial differentialequations and non integer derivationrdquo in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics pp166ndash173 October 1993
[7] B Mbodje and G Montseny ldquoBoundary fractional derivativecontrol of the wave equationrdquo IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl vol 40 no 2 pp 378ndash382 1995
[8] G Montseny J Audounet and B Mbodje ldquoOptimal model offractional integrators and application to systems with fadingmemoryrdquo in Proceedings of the International Conference onSystems Man and Cybernetics pp 65ndash70 October 1993
[9] S Westerlund and L Ekstam ldquoCapacitor theoryrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol 1 no 5 pp826ndash839 1994
[10] N Bano and R A Hashmi ldquoElectrical studies of leaves overwide frequency rangerdquo IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation vol 3 no 2 pp 229ndash232 1996
[11] G E Carlson and C A Halijak ldquoSimulation of the fractionalderivate operator and the fractional integral operator radic119904rdquo inProceedings of the Central State Simulation Council Meeting vol45 no 7 Kansas State University May 1961
[12] T C Haba M Martos G Ablart and P Bidan ldquoComposantselectroniques a impedance fractionnairerdquo in Proceedings of theESAIM conferece on Fractional Differential Systems ModelsMethods and Applications vol 5 pp 99ndash109 1998
[13] J J Quintana A Ramos and I Nuez ldquoIdentificaction of thefractional impedance of ultracapacitorsrdquo in Proceedings of theIFACWorkshop (FDArsquo06) Oporto Portugal 2006
[14] L Zubieta and R Bonert ldquoCharacterization of double-layercapacitors for power electronics applicationsrdquo IEEE Transac-tions on Industry Applications vol 36 no 1 pp 199ndash205 2000
[15] N Bertrand J Sabatier O Briat and J-M Vinassa ldquoEmbeddedfractional nonlinear supercapacitor model and its parametricestimation methodrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electron-ics vol 57 no 12 pp 3991ndash4000 2010
[16] R Martın J J Quintana A Ramos and I de la Nuez ldquoMod-eling of electrochemical double layer capacitors by means offractional impedancerdquo Journal of Computational and Nonlinear
Dynamics vol 3 no 2 Article ID 021303 pp 21303ndash214002008
[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
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Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
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Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 5
Volta
ge (V
)
Time (s)
2
15
1
05
0
minus05
times104
0 05 15 2 25 31
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(a)
0 05 15 2 25 3
Time (s)1
05
0
minus05
minus15
minus1Curr
ent (
A)
times104
Charge (002A)-rest-discharge
(b)
Figure 3 Charge-rest-discharge at 20mA
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 817
19
21
23
25
27
Time (h)
Volta
ge (V
)
Charge (09A)-rest (best identification with
Calculated values
Experimental data
120572 = 1)
Figure 4 Fitting in the resting phase using integer derivatives
Table 1 Charge + rest identification parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 002A 0941 5974119864 minus 08 0239 0202 2079119864 minus 02
2 01 A 0952 8671119864 minus 08 0261 0187 1297119864 minus 02
3 05 A 0950 102119864 minus 07 0267 0170 1354119864 minus 02
4 05 A 0950 1020119864 minus 07 0250 0169 1338119864 minus 02
5 09 A 0953 9917119864 minus 08 0228 0164 1096119864 minus 02
The EDLC identification has been carried out calculatingthe parameters 120572 119886 119896
1 and 119896
2in (18) and has consisted
of two parts first from the beginning until just beforedischarged and second from the discharge onwards Thisis because the internal processes in the EDLC are different[22 23]
The data obtained for the charge and rest phases areshown in Table 1
Considering relation (15) between the parameters cal-culated with the resistors and the capacity in Figure 1 theparameters obtained for the charge are in Table 2
In order to compare the adjustment with traditionalmodel (14) in which the fractional index is an integer Table 3and Figure 4 show the best fit to the data of test number 5setting 120572 = 1
Table 2 Charge + rest electrical parameters
Test 119868 (A) 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 002A 0941 495 0239 3382119864 + 06
2 01 A 0952 535 0261 2155119864 + 06
3 05 A 0950 589 0267 1660119864 + 06
4 05 A 0950 591 0250 1660119864 + 06
5 09 A 0953 608 0228 1658119864 + 06
Table 3 Parameters calculated for test number 5 setting 120572 = 1
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 1000 900 1262 2191119864 + 04
Table 4 Discharge identification parameters
Test 120572 119886 1198961
1198962
120590119889
1 0975 9600119864 minus 08 0235 0187 1391119864 minus 02
2 0981 9282119864 minus 08 0244 0185 1281119864 minus 02
3 0978 8427119864 minus 08 0267 0192 2068119864 minus 02
4 0976 1556119864 minus 07 0251 0202 2338119864 minus 02
5 0982 1032119864 minus 07 0240 0171 1285119864 minus 02
Table 5 Discharge electrical parameters
Test 120572 119862 1198771
1198772
1 0975 534 0235 1950119864 + 06
2 0981 540 0244 1996119864 + 06
3 0978 521 0267 2278119864 + 06
4 0976 495 0251 1297119864 + 06
5 0982 585 0240 1656119864 + 06
Operating in a similar way the parameters for thedischarge through the 5Ω resistor are in Table 4
Of which the following electric parameters are obtainedin Table 5
The following figures show graphically the fit of theproposed model with experimental data Figure 5 shows thatthe model has a good precision all over the time range testedFigures 6 and 8 display the model and the experimentaldata in the charging and discharging phases Figures 4 and 7show the fit when using transfer functions with integer and
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
References
[1] A Burke ldquoUltracapacitors why how and where is the technol-ogyrdquo Journal of Power Sources vol 91 no 1 pp 37ndash50 2000
[2] B Conway Electrochemical Supercapacitors Scientific Funda-mentals and Technological Applications Kluwer Academic NewYork NY USA 1999
[3] I Podlubny Fractional Differential Equations vol 198 ofMath-ematics in Science and Engineering Academic Press San DiegoCalif USA 1999
[4] K B Oldham and J SpanierThe Fractional Calculus vol 1047Academic Press New York NY USA 1974
[5] K S Miller and B Ross An Introduction to the FractionalCalculus and Fractional Differential Equations John Wiley ampSons New York NY USA 1993
[6] A Oustaloup A Ballouk and B Bansard ldquoPartial differentialequations and non integer derivationrdquo in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics pp166ndash173 October 1993
[7] B Mbodje and G Montseny ldquoBoundary fractional derivativecontrol of the wave equationrdquo IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl vol 40 no 2 pp 378ndash382 1995
[8] G Montseny J Audounet and B Mbodje ldquoOptimal model offractional integrators and application to systems with fadingmemoryrdquo in Proceedings of the International Conference onSystems Man and Cybernetics pp 65ndash70 October 1993
[9] S Westerlund and L Ekstam ldquoCapacitor theoryrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol 1 no 5 pp826ndash839 1994
[10] N Bano and R A Hashmi ldquoElectrical studies of leaves overwide frequency rangerdquo IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation vol 3 no 2 pp 229ndash232 1996
[11] G E Carlson and C A Halijak ldquoSimulation of the fractionalderivate operator and the fractional integral operator radic119904rdquo inProceedings of the Central State Simulation Council Meeting vol45 no 7 Kansas State University May 1961
[12] T C Haba M Martos G Ablart and P Bidan ldquoComposantselectroniques a impedance fractionnairerdquo in Proceedings of theESAIM conferece on Fractional Differential Systems ModelsMethods and Applications vol 5 pp 99ndash109 1998
[13] J J Quintana A Ramos and I Nuez ldquoIdentificaction of thefractional impedance of ultracapacitorsrdquo in Proceedings of theIFACWorkshop (FDArsquo06) Oporto Portugal 2006
[14] L Zubieta and R Bonert ldquoCharacterization of double-layercapacitors for power electronics applicationsrdquo IEEE Transac-tions on Industry Applications vol 36 no 1 pp 199ndash205 2000
[15] N Bertrand J Sabatier O Briat and J-M Vinassa ldquoEmbeddedfractional nonlinear supercapacitor model and its parametricestimation methodrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electron-ics vol 57 no 12 pp 3991ndash4000 2010
[16] R Martın J J Quintana A Ramos and I de la Nuez ldquoMod-eling of electrochemical double layer capacitors by means offractional impedancerdquo Journal of Computational and Nonlinear
Dynamics vol 3 no 2 Article ID 021303 pp 21303ndash214002008
[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
6 Mathematical Problems in Engineering
01 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge (09A)-rest-discharge
Figure 5 Experimental data of test number 5 versus proposedmodel
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 2000
05
1
15
2
25
3
Time (s)
Vol
tage
(V)
Charge at 09 A
Experimentaldata
Calculatedvalues
Figure 6 Detail of fitting in charging phase
fractional indices showing that the fit with the traditionalmodel gives unsatisfactory results In summary it can beobserved that the voltage deduced through the fractionalmodel adjusts very close to the real data even in long timeperiods
44 Discussion The self-discharge adjustment of EDLC aftercharging and after long time resting phases is a complex phe-nomenon which is not easily applicable to modeling throughinteger-order transfer functions In this work the EDLC hasbeenmodeledmaking use of the fractional derivative Takingthe electric circuit in Figure 1 as starting point and assumingthat the capacitor has a fractional index 120572 fractional transferfunction (18) has been deduced This function has beensolved in the time domain usingMittag-Leffler functions andimplemented in a simulation program through (23)
First of all considering Figure 5 it can be observed thatthe proposed transfer function adjusts well to the real datamodeling satisfactorily the self-discharge phenomenon
Unlike the traditional capacitor model which is definedby the value of two resistors and the capacity the proposedmodel adds a new parameter that is the fractional index 120572 ofthe fractional capacitor This new parameter models to agreater extent the self-discharging phenomenon
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 818
19
2
21
22
23
24
25
26
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Resting phase
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 7 Fitting in the resting phase using the proposed model
8 8250
05
1
15
2
Time (h)
Vol
tage
(V)
Discharge
Calculatedvalues
Experimentaldata
Figure 8 Fitting in the discharging phase
Although constants in Tables 1 and 4 have been taken forthe identification of equations constants in Tables 2 and 5willprovide the data related to the value of the electric elements
In all cases the adjustment has been very precise with thetypical deviation being less than 003
The constancy of 1198771 1198772 and 119862 values for both charge
and discharge is especially noteworthyAt last the most significant difference in terms of charge
and discharge is given by the value of the fractional index 120572which is around 095 in the charge and around 098 in thedischarge
5 Conclusions
This work has consisted of EDLC modeling by implement-ing a simple fractional model allowing a very satisfac-tory response for long time periods Traditional modelsbased on transfer functions with integer coefficients yieldgood results in those cases when there is no self-dischargephenomenon Applying fractional mathematics implies anadditional parameter to the already necessary parameters inorder to define the basic model shown in Figure 1 which isthe fractional index 120572 According to the tests this index hasdifferent values for the charge and the discharge with those
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
References
[1] A Burke ldquoUltracapacitors why how and where is the technol-ogyrdquo Journal of Power Sources vol 91 no 1 pp 37ndash50 2000
[2] B Conway Electrochemical Supercapacitors Scientific Funda-mentals and Technological Applications Kluwer Academic NewYork NY USA 1999
[3] I Podlubny Fractional Differential Equations vol 198 ofMath-ematics in Science and Engineering Academic Press San DiegoCalif USA 1999
[4] K B Oldham and J SpanierThe Fractional Calculus vol 1047Academic Press New York NY USA 1974
[5] K S Miller and B Ross An Introduction to the FractionalCalculus and Fractional Differential Equations John Wiley ampSons New York NY USA 1993
[6] A Oustaloup A Ballouk and B Bansard ldquoPartial differentialequations and non integer derivationrdquo in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics pp166ndash173 October 1993
[7] B Mbodje and G Montseny ldquoBoundary fractional derivativecontrol of the wave equationrdquo IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl vol 40 no 2 pp 378ndash382 1995
[8] G Montseny J Audounet and B Mbodje ldquoOptimal model offractional integrators and application to systems with fadingmemoryrdquo in Proceedings of the International Conference onSystems Man and Cybernetics pp 65ndash70 October 1993
[9] S Westerlund and L Ekstam ldquoCapacitor theoryrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol 1 no 5 pp826ndash839 1994
[10] N Bano and R A Hashmi ldquoElectrical studies of leaves overwide frequency rangerdquo IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation vol 3 no 2 pp 229ndash232 1996
[11] G E Carlson and C A Halijak ldquoSimulation of the fractionalderivate operator and the fractional integral operator radic119904rdquo inProceedings of the Central State Simulation Council Meeting vol45 no 7 Kansas State University May 1961
[12] T C Haba M Martos G Ablart and P Bidan ldquoComposantselectroniques a impedance fractionnairerdquo in Proceedings of theESAIM conferece on Fractional Differential Systems ModelsMethods and Applications vol 5 pp 99ndash109 1998
[13] J J Quintana A Ramos and I Nuez ldquoIdentificaction of thefractional impedance of ultracapacitorsrdquo in Proceedings of theIFACWorkshop (FDArsquo06) Oporto Portugal 2006
[14] L Zubieta and R Bonert ldquoCharacterization of double-layercapacitors for power electronics applicationsrdquo IEEE Transac-tions on Industry Applications vol 36 no 1 pp 199ndash205 2000
[15] N Bertrand J Sabatier O Briat and J-M Vinassa ldquoEmbeddedfractional nonlinear supercapacitor model and its parametricestimation methodrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electron-ics vol 57 no 12 pp 3991ndash4000 2010
[16] R Martın J J Quintana A Ramos and I de la Nuez ldquoMod-eling of electrochemical double layer capacitors by means offractional impedancerdquo Journal of Computational and Nonlinear
Dynamics vol 3 no 2 Article ID 021303 pp 21303ndash214002008
[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
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Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering
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Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
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Applied MathematicsJournal of
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Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
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Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
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OptimizationJournal of
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CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
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Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
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Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
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The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
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Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Mathematical Problems in Engineering 7
values being apparently independent of the EDLC chargingcurrent
Thanks to the proposed transfer function and theMittag-Leffler functions it is possible to estimate the voltage at theEDLC terminals after a long time taking into account thecharging current and the way it has been charged
References
[1] A Burke ldquoUltracapacitors why how and where is the technol-ogyrdquo Journal of Power Sources vol 91 no 1 pp 37ndash50 2000
[2] B Conway Electrochemical Supercapacitors Scientific Funda-mentals and Technological Applications Kluwer Academic NewYork NY USA 1999
[3] I Podlubny Fractional Differential Equations vol 198 ofMath-ematics in Science and Engineering Academic Press San DiegoCalif USA 1999
[4] K B Oldham and J SpanierThe Fractional Calculus vol 1047Academic Press New York NY USA 1974
[5] K S Miller and B Ross An Introduction to the FractionalCalculus and Fractional Differential Equations John Wiley ampSons New York NY USA 1993
[6] A Oustaloup A Ballouk and B Bansard ldquoPartial differentialequations and non integer derivationrdquo in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Systems Man and Cybernetics pp166ndash173 October 1993
[7] B Mbodje and G Montseny ldquoBoundary fractional derivativecontrol of the wave equationrdquo IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl vol 40 no 2 pp 378ndash382 1995
[8] G Montseny J Audounet and B Mbodje ldquoOptimal model offractional integrators and application to systems with fadingmemoryrdquo in Proceedings of the International Conference onSystems Man and Cybernetics pp 65ndash70 October 1993
[9] S Westerlund and L Ekstam ldquoCapacitor theoryrdquo IEEE Trans-actions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol 1 no 5 pp826ndash839 1994
[10] N Bano and R A Hashmi ldquoElectrical studies of leaves overwide frequency rangerdquo IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics andElectrical Insulation vol 3 no 2 pp 229ndash232 1996
[11] G E Carlson and C A Halijak ldquoSimulation of the fractionalderivate operator and the fractional integral operator radic119904rdquo inProceedings of the Central State Simulation Council Meeting vol45 no 7 Kansas State University May 1961
[12] T C Haba M Martos G Ablart and P Bidan ldquoComposantselectroniques a impedance fractionnairerdquo in Proceedings of theESAIM conferece on Fractional Differential Systems ModelsMethods and Applications vol 5 pp 99ndash109 1998
[13] J J Quintana A Ramos and I Nuez ldquoIdentificaction of thefractional impedance of ultracapacitorsrdquo in Proceedings of theIFACWorkshop (FDArsquo06) Oporto Portugal 2006
[14] L Zubieta and R Bonert ldquoCharacterization of double-layercapacitors for power electronics applicationsrdquo IEEE Transac-tions on Industry Applications vol 36 no 1 pp 199ndash205 2000
[15] N Bertrand J Sabatier O Briat and J-M Vinassa ldquoEmbeddedfractional nonlinear supercapacitor model and its parametricestimation methodrdquo IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electron-ics vol 57 no 12 pp 3991ndash4000 2010
[16] R Martın J J Quintana A Ramos and I de la Nuez ldquoMod-eling of electrochemical double layer capacitors by means offractional impedancerdquo Journal of Computational and Nonlinear
Dynamics vol 3 no 2 Article ID 021303 pp 21303ndash214002008
[17] V Musolino L Piegari and E Tironi ldquoNew full-frequency-range supercapacitormodel with easy identification procedurerdquoIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics vol 60 no 1 pp112ndash120 2013
[18] Y Wang T Hartley C Lorenzo and J AdamsModeling Ultra-capacitors as Fractional-Order Systems New Trends in Nan-otechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications 2010
[19] R L Spyker ldquoClassical equivalent circuit parameters for adouble-layer capacitorrdquo IEEE Transactions on Aerospace andElectronic Systems vol 36 no 3 pp 829ndash836 2000
[20] A Dzielinski G Sarwas and D Sierociuk ldquoTime domain vali-dation of ultracapacitor fractional order modelrdquo in Proceedingsof the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC rsquo10)pp 3730ndash3735 December 2010
[21] T J Freeborn B Maundy and A S Elwakil ldquoMeasurementof supercapacitor fractional-order model parameters fromvoltage-excited step responserdquo IEEE Journal on Emerging andSelected Topics in Circuits and Systems vol 3 no 3 pp 416ndash4242013
[22] R de Levie ldquoOn porous electrodes in electrolyte solutions ICapacitance effectsrdquo Electrochimica Acta vol 8 no 10 pp 751ndash780 1963
[23] M Kaus J Kowal and D U Sauer ldquoModelling the effects ofcharge redistribution during self-discharge of supercapacitorsrdquoElectrochimica Acta vol 55 no 25 pp 7516ndash7523 2010
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of
Submit your manuscripts athttpwwwhindawicom
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Differential EquationsInternational Journal of
Volume 2014
Applied MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Probability and StatisticsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Mathematical PhysicsAdvances in
Complex AnalysisJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
OptimizationJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
CombinatoricsHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Operations ResearchAdvances in
Journal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Function Spaces
Abstract and Applied AnalysisHindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
The Scientific World JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation httpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Algebra
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Decision SciencesAdvances in
Discrete MathematicsJournal of
Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom
Volume 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporationhttpwwwhindawicom Volume 2014
Stochastic AnalysisInternational Journal of