Energy storage system and photovoltaic energy storage system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12322975-B2
Application number	US-202318397752-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2023
Priority date	Jan 23, 2020
Publication date	Jun 3, 2025
Grant date	Jun 3, 2025

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses an energy storage converter, wherein a first end of the energy storage converter is coupled to at least one of the Q cell strings, and second end of the energy storage converter is configured to connect to a power grid. The first energy storage converter includes a DC/AC conversion unit and at least one DC/DC conversion unit. The DC/DC conversion unit is configured to perform adaptation between a voltage of the DC/AC conversion unit and a voltage of a cell string. Therefore, a cell capacity is fully used, and a waste of the cell capacity is reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An energy storage converter, wherein a first end of the energy storage converter is coupled to at least one of Q cell strings, a second end of the energy storage converter is configured to connect to a power grid, and Q is an integer greater than 0;
the energy storage converter comprises a direct current to alternating current (DC to AC) conversion unit and at least one direct current to direct current (DC to DC) conversion unit; and
a first DC to DC conversion unit is coupled to the at least one of the Q cell strings using the first end of the energy storage converter, the first DC to DC conversion unit is coupled to the DC to AC conversion unit, the DC to AC conversion unit is coupled to the power grid by using the second end of the energy storage converter, and the first DC to DC conversion unit is any one of the at least one DC to DC conversion unit, wherein
the first DC to DC conversion unit is configured to perform adaptation between a voltage of the DC t AC conversion unit and a voltage of the at least one of the Q cell strings, and
wherein both ends of any one of the at least one DC to DC conversion unit are connected in parallel to a switch, and the energy storage converter is configured to detect voltages of the at least one of the Q cell strings, and in response to a voltage of any one of the at least one of the Q cell strings being greater than or equal to a first voltage threshold, a switch connected in parallel to a DC to DC conversion unit coupled to the cell string whose voltage is greater than or equal to the first voltage threshold is closed; and
in response to a voltage of any one of the at least one of the Q cell strings being less than or equal to a second voltage threshold, a switch connected in parallel to a DC to DC conversion unit coupled to the cell string whose voltage is less than or equal to the second voltage threshold is open, wherein the first voltage threshold is greater than or equal to the second voltage threshold.

2. The energy storage converter according to claim 1 , wherein the second end of the energy storage converter is coupled to the power grid using a first transformer.

3. The energy storage converter according to claim 1 , wherein the second end of the energy storage converter is coupled to output ends of Y photovoltaic inverters, Y is an integer greater than 0.

4. The energy storage converter according to claim 3 , wherein the energy storage converter further comprises a controller, the controller is coupled to each of the Y photovoltaic inverters, and the controller is configured to communicate with the Y photovoltaic inverters.

5. The energy storage converter according to claim 4 , wherein the controller is further configured to obtain grid feed-in power, and when the controller detects that total power of the Y photovoltaic inverters is greater than or equal to the grid feed-in power, the controller controls the energy storage converter to charge the at least one of the Q cell strings; and
in response to the controller detecting that the total power of the Y photovoltaic inverters is less than the grid feed-in power, the controller controls the at least one of the Q cell strings to discharge.

6. The energy storage converter according to claim 4 , wherein in response to an output voltage frequency of the energy storage converter or the Y photovoltaic inverters being greater than a first preset voltage frequency threshold, each of the Y photovoltaic inverters performs output with reduced power based on a preset power curve of the photovoltaic inverter, and the energy storage converter charges the at least one of the Q cell strings; and
in response to an output end voltage frequency of any one of the energy storage converter or the Y photovoltaic inverters being less than a second preset voltage frequency threshold, each of the Y photovoltaic inverters performs output with increased power based on a preset power curve of the photovoltaic inverter, and the energy storage converter controls the at least one of the Q cell strings to discharge, wherein the first preset voltage frequency threshold is greater than a preset power grid voltage normal frequency value, and the second preset voltage frequency threshold is less than the preset power grid voltage normal frequency value.

7. The energy storage converter according to claim 4 , wherein the controller is configured to obtain a quantity of electricity of each of the at least one of the Q cell strings;
in response to the energy storage converter charging the at least one of the Q cell strings, the controller controls the energy storage converter to preferentially charge a cell string with a small quantity of electricity in the at least one of the Q cell strings; and
in response to the at least one of the Q cell strings discharging, the controller preferentially controls a cell string with a large quantity of electricity in the at least one of the Q cell strings to discharge.

8. The energy storage converter according to claim 1 , wherein any one of the at least one DC to DC conversion unit is coupled to the at least one of the Q cell strings.

9. A direct current to direct current (DC to DC) power conversion device, wherein a first end of the DC to DC power conversion device is coupled to at least one of Q cell strings, a second end of the DC to DC power conversion device is coupled to a first end of a direct current to alternating current (DC to AC) power conversion device, and Q is an integer greater than 0;
the DC to DC power conversion device comprises at least one DC to DC conversion unit;
a first DC to DC conversion unit is coupled to the at least one of the Q cell strings using the first end of the DC to DC power conversion device, the first DC to DC conversion unit is coupled to the first end of the DC to AC power conversion device using the second end of the DC to DC power conversion device, and the first DC to DC conversion unit is any one of the at least one DC to DC conversion unit; and
the first DC to DC conversion unit is configured to perform adaptation between a voltage of the DC to AC power conversion device and a voltage of the at least one of the q cell strings, and
wherein both ends of any one of the at least one DC to DC conversion unit are connected in parallel to a switch, and the energy storage converter is configured to detect voltages of the at least one of the Q cell strings, and in response to a voltage of any one of the at least one of the Q cell strings being greater than or equal to a first threshold, a switch connected in parallel to a DC to DC conversion unit coupled to the cell string whose voltage is greater than or equal to the first voltage threshold is closed; and
in response to a voltage of any one of the at least one of the Q cell strings being less than or equal to a second voltage threshold, a switch connected in parallel to a DC to DC conversion unit coupled to the cell string whose voltage is less than or equal to the second voltage threshold is open, wherein the first voltage threshold is greater than or equal to the second voltage threshold.

10. The DC to DC power conversion device according to claim 9 , wherein the DC to DC power conversion device further comprises a controller, the controller is coupled to each of Y photovoltaic inverters, and the controller is configured to communicate with the Y photovoltaic inverters, wherein Y is an integer greater than 0.

11. The DC to DC power conversion device according to claim 10 , wherein the controller is further configured to obtain grid feed-in power, and in response to the controller detecting that total power of the Y photovoltaic inverters is greater than or equal to the grid feed-in pow

Assignees

• Huawei Digital Power Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Yanzhong
• Wang Xun

Classifications

• H02J2101/24

  Photovoltaics · CPC title

• H02J7/80

  including monitoring or indicating arrangements · CPC title

• H02J7/54

  Passive balancing, e.g. using resistors or parallel MOSFETs · CPC title

• H02J7/56

  Active balancing, e.g. using capacitor-based, inductor-based or DC-DC converters · CPC title

• H02J3/381

  Dispersed generators · CPC title