Energy storage system for renewable energy source

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9793788-B2
Application number	US-201314136018-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2013
Priority date	Dec 20, 2013
Publication date	Oct 17, 2017
Grant date	Oct 17, 2017

Abstract

An energy storage system for use in a renewable energy power system is provided. More particularly, an energy storage system can be coupled to the DC bus of a power converter in a renewable energy power system. A switching power supply can be coupled between the energy storage device and the DC bus of the power converter. The switching power supply can include a bi-directional resonant DC to DC converter. The bi-directional resonant converter can include a plurality of switching elements, a resonant circuit coupled to the at least one switching element, and a filtering circuit coupled to the resonant circuit. The bi-directional resonant converter can be configured to accommodate power flow in at least two directions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A bi-directional resonant DC to DC power converter comprising:
a first transistor having a gate, a collector, and an emitter;
a second transistor having a gate, a collector, and an emitter, the collector of the second transistor being coupled to the emitter of the first transistor;
a resonant circuit coupled to a node between the first transistor and the second transistor, the resonant circuit having a first inductor and a first capacitor, the resonant circuit configured such that a resonant current flowing through the first inductor goes below zero in every resonant cycle;
a filtering circuit coupled to a node between the first inductor and the first capacitor, the filtering circuit comprising a second inductor and a second capacitor, the filtering circuit configured to filter the resonant current flowing through the first inductor to provide a substantially DC output.

2. The bi-directional resonant DC to DC converter of claim 1 , wherein the collector of the first transistor is coupled to a positive terminal of a DC source and the emitter of the second transistor is coupled to a negative terminal of the DC source.

3. The bi-directional resonant DC to DC converter of claim 2 , wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled to the negative terminal of the DC source.

4. The bi-directional resonant DC to DC converter of claim 2 , wherein the first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled to the positive terminal of the DC source.

Assignees

• Gen Electric

Inventors

• Wagoner Robert Gregory
• Schnetzka Harold Robert

Classifications

• H02J2101/28

  Wind energy · CPC title

• H02J7/35

  with light sensitive cells · CPC title

• H02M3/158

  including plural semiconductor devices as final control devices for a single load · CPC title

• H02M7/217

  using semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• H02J7/34

  Parallel operation in networks using both storage and other DC sources, e.g. providing buffering (H02J7/14 takes precedence) · CPC title