Battery energy storage, battery energy storage system, method, computer program and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9257870-B2
Application number	US-201414535805-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 7, 2014
Priority date	May 16, 2012
Publication date	Feb 9, 2016
Grant date	Feb 9, 2016

Abstract

A battery energy storage arranged to be connected to a capacitor link, which is connected in parallel to a power converter. The battery energy storage includes a battery module and a direct current energy source connected in series with a voltage source converter. The voltage source converter is adapted to insert a positive voltage when the voltage of the battery module falls below a first threshold value, and to insert a negative voltage when the voltage of the battery module exceeds a second threshold value. The direct current energy source is adapted to be either charged or discharged during the voltage insertion by the voltage source converter. The disclosure also provides a battery energy storage system including such battery energy storage.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A battery energy storage arranged to be connected to a capacitor link, which is connected in parallel to a power converter, the battery energy storage comprising a battery module and characterized by a direct current energy source connected in series with a voltage source converter, wherein the voltage source converter is adapted to insert a positive voltage when the voltage of the battery module falls below a first threshold value, and to insert a negative voltage when the voltage of the battery module exceeds a second threshold value, and wherein the direct current energy source is adapted to be either charged or discharged during the voltage insertion by the voltage source converter.

2. The battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 , comprising a direct current to direct current converter, a primary side of which is connected to the battery module and a secondary side of which is connected to the direct current energy source.

3. The battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the energy storage capacity of the direct current energy source is less than 30% of the energy storage capacity of the battery module.

4. The battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the voltage source converter comprises an H-bridge converter or a cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter.

5. The battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the direct current energy source comprises a supercapacitor or an electro-chemical battery.

6. The battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 , comprising two or more direct current energy sources.

7. A battery energy storage system comprising a power converter, a capacitor link connected in parallel with the power converter and a battery energy storage as claimed in claim 1 connected in parallel to the capacitor link.

8. The battery energy storage system as claimed in claim 7 , comprising a control device adapted to control the power converter and/or the voltage source converter.

9. A method for controlling a battery energy storage system comprising a power converter, a capacitor link connected in parallel with the power converter and a battery energy storage connected in parallel to the capacitor link, the battery energy storage comprising a battery module and a direct current energy source connected in series with a voltage source converter, the method comprising:
determining that the battery module voltage falls below a first threshold value, or that the battery module voltage exceeds a second threshold value, and
controlling the voltage source converter to insert a positive voltage when the voltage of the battery module falls below the first threshold value, and to insert a negative voltage when the voltage of the battery module exceeds the second threshold value.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a computer program for a control device controlling a battery energy storage arranged to be connected to a capacitor link, which is connected in parallel to a power converter, the battery energy storage comprising a battery module and a direct current energy source connected in series with a voltage source converter, the computer program comprising computer program code which when run on the control device cause the control device to:
determine that the battery module voltage falls below a first threshold value, or that the battery module voltage exceeds a second threshold value, and
control the voltage source converter to insert a positive voltage when the voltage of the battery module falls below the first threshold value, and to insert a negative voltage when the voltage of the battery module exceeds the second threshold value.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the computer program is part of a computer program product.

Assignees

• Abb Research Ltd

Inventors

• Tengner Tomas

Classifications

• H02J7/64

  against overvoltage · CPC title

• H02J3/32

  using batteries or super capacitors with converting means · CPC title

• Y10T307/527

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H01M10/4264

  with capacitors · CPC title

• H02M3/07

  using capacitors charged and discharged alternately by semiconductor devices with control electrode {, e.g. charge pumps} · CPC title