Control unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10554045-B2
Application number	US-201715807729-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2017
Priority date	Dec 20, 2016
Publication date	Feb 4, 2020
Grant date	Feb 4, 2020

Abstract

A control unit includes a power supply device with a battery store including at least one battery unit; a first energy conversion device that converts nonelectrical energy into electrical energy; and a connecting unit configured such that a summed energy for the electrical energy of the energy conversion device and battery store is deliverable. The control unit receives an instantaneous output power or a future output power requirement of the first energy conversion device and further receives a predicted power of the first energy conversion device for at least one future time. The instantaneous output power or the future output power requirement and the predicted power are used to ascertain a required power at the future time. At least one battery unit is switched on in response to the threshold value being exceeded by the required power.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control unit for a power supply device, the power supply device including
a battery store including at least one battery unit with a startup time and a battery power,
a first energy conversion device to convert nonelectrical energy into electrical energy,
a connecting unit, connected to the battery store and the first energy conversion device, configured such that a summed energy for the electrical energy of the first energy conversion device and of the battery store is deliverable at its output, the control unit being configured to:
receive an instantaneous output power of the first energy conversion device or a future output power requirement,

receive a predicted power of the first energy conversion device for at least one future time, wherein the at least one future time is greater than or equal to a sum of the present time and the startup time;
use firstly the instantaneous output power or the future output power requirement, and secondly the predicted power, to ascertain a required power at the at least one future time;
compare the required power with a first threshold value; and
switch at least one battery unit on, in response to the comparing indicating that the required power exceeds the first threshold value.

2. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to
receive a planned output power of the power supply device as future output power requirement, and wherein the control unit is further configured such that the planned output power and the predicted power are useable to ascertain the required power at the at least one future time.

3. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured to
receive an instantaneous output power of the first energy conversion device, and wherein the control unit is configured such that the instantaneous output power is usable to ascertain a computed output power for the at least one future time, the computed output power and the predicted power being usable to ascertain the required power for the at least one future time.

4. The control unit of claim 3 , wherein the control unit is configured such that the required power is a difference between computed output power as a minuend and a predicted power as a subtrahend.

5. The control unit of claim 3 , wherein the control unit is configured such that the computed output power is a difference between the instantaneous output power as a minuend and a safety reduction as a subtrahend.

6. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein the first energy conversion device is configured to convert renewable energy into electrical energy.

7. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein the first power supply device is connectable to a load that has a load power with a load power tolerance, the first energy conversion device includes a rated power at least equal to or greater than the load power, and wherein the control unit is configured to receive a predicted load power, which is a load power for at least one future time, as a predicted power, and wherein the control unit is configured such that the rated power and the predicted load power are usable to ascertain the required power at the at least one future time.

8. The control unit of claim 7 , wherein the control unit is configured such that the required power is a difference between predicted load power as a minuend and rated power as a subtrahend.

9. The control unit of claim 7 , wherein the first energy conversion device is configured to convert nonrenewable energy into electrical energy.

10. The control unit of claim 9 , further comprising:
a second energy conversion device, configured to convert renewable energy into electrical energy, with a rated power variance, wherein the control unit is configured such that the required power is ascertainable via the rated power, predicted power and rated power variance.

11. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein, upon the battery store including multiple battery units, the control unit is configured such that a number of the multiple battery units to be switched on is ascertainable using a quotient, rounded up to an integer, of required power as a dividend and battery power of the battery unit as a divisor.

12. The control unit of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is further configured such that switching on the at least one battery unit at the present time is delayed by an offset time upon the at least one future time being greater than a sum of the present time and the startup time.

13. A power supply device comprising the control unit of claim 1 .

14. A method for a power supply device including a battery store including at least one battery unit including a startup time and a battery power, a first energy conversion device to convert nonelectrical energy into electrical energy, and a connecting unit, connected to the battery store and the first energy conversion device, configured to deliver a summed energy for electrical energy of the first energy conversion device and of the battery store at its output, the method comprising:
using an instantaneous output power of the first energy conversion device or a future output power requirement and a predicted power of the first energy conversion device for at least one future time, to ascertain a required power for the at least one future time, wherein at least one the future time is greater than or equal to a sum of the present time and the startup time;
comparing the required power with a first threshold value; and
switching on at least one battery unit in response to the comparing indicating that the required power exceeds the first threshold value.

15. The control unit of claim 2 , wherein the required power is ascertainable using a difference between planned output power as a minuend and predicted power as a subtrahend.

16. The control unit of claim 2 , wherein the control unit is further configured to
receive an instantaneous output power of the first energy conversion device, and wherein the control unit is configured such that the instantaneous output power is usable to ascertain a computed output power for the at least one future time, the computed output power and the predicted power being usable to ascertain the required power for the at least one future time.

17. The control unit of claim 16 , wherein the control unit is configured such that the required power is a difference between computed output power as a minuend and a predicted power as a subtrahend.

18. The control unit of claim 4 , wherein the control unit is configured such that the computed output power is a difference between the instantaneous output power as a minuend and a safety reduction as a subtrahend.

19. The control unit of claim 5 , wherein the safety reduction is a product of a rise per unit time and a time difference between future time and present time.

20. The control unit of claim 8 , wherein the first energy conversion device is configured to convert nonrenewable energy into electrical energy.

21. The control unit of claim 12 , wherein a maximum offset time is obtainable from a difference between the at least one future time as a minuend and a sum of the present time and the startup time as a subtrahend.

Assignees

• Siemens Ag

Inventors

• Bamberger Joachim
• Szabo Andrei

Classifications

• H02J3/003

  Load forecast, e.g. methods or systems for forecasting future load demand · CPC title

• H02J3/381

  Dispersed generators · CPC title

• Y02E70/30

  Systems combining energy storage with energy generation of non-fossil origin · CPC title

• H02J3/38

  Arrangements for feeding a single network from two or more generators or sources in parallel; Arrangements for feeding already energised networks from additional generators or sources in parallel · CPC title

• H02J3/382

  Electricity · mapped topic