Power system, power management method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9917473-B2
Application number	US-201414771259-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2014
Priority date	Mar 1, 2013
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

A power system 10 is provided with a power conversion device 110 connected to an input power supply 200 , a battery 120 and a load 130 connected in parallel with each other to the output side of the power conversion device 110 , and a control device 140 controlling charging/discharging of the battery 120 , wherein the control device 140 receives output power of the power conversion device 110 , determines, based on the received output power, charge or discharge power of the battery 120 such that the output power becomes close to a first value, and charges or discharges the battery 120 based on the determined charge or discharge power.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A power system comprising;
a power conversion device configured to perform power conversion between a power source and a load that is connected to an output side of the power conversion device and that consumes an electric power;
a battery configured to perform a charging operation and a discharging operation, wherein the battery is connected to the output side of the power conversion device in parallel with the load; and
a controller configured to receive an output power of the power conversion device and to control the charging operation or the discharging operation of the battery, such that output power of the power conversion device comes close to a rated value that maximizes a power conversion efficiency of the power conversion device,
wherein when the output power of the power conversion device is smaller than the rated value, the controller determines a charging power to the battery based on a difference between the output power of the power conversion device and the rated value, and starts the charging operation of the battery based on the determined charging power, and
wherein when the output power of the power conversion device is larger than the rated value, the controller determines a discharging power from the battery based on a difference between the output power of the power conversion device and the rated value, and starts the discharging operation of the battery based on the determined discharging power.

2. The power system according to claim 1 , wherein the power conversion device comprises:
a first bidirectional inverter to which a first battery and a first load are connected in parallel with each other at an output side of the first bidirectional inverter;
a second bidirectional inverter to which a second battery and a second load are connected in parallel with each other at an output side of the second bidirectional inverter; and
a third bidirectional inverter to which the first bidirectional inverter and the second bidirectional inverter are connected in parallel with each other at an output side of the third bidirectional inverter via a bus, and a power supply source at an input side of the third bidirectional inverter,
wherein the controller receives an output power of each of the first bidirectional inverter, the second bidirectional inverter, and the third bidirectional inverter, and controls a charging operation or a discharging operation of each of the first battery and the second battery based on the output power of each of the first bidirectional inverter, the second bidirectional inverter, and the third bidirectional inverter, such that the output power of each of the first bidirectional inverter, the second bidirectional inverter, and the third bidirectional inverter comes close to the rated value of each of the first bidirectional inverter, the second bidirectional inverter, and the third bidirectional inverter, respectively, and
wherein a value of the output power of the third bidirectional inverter is a total value of the output powers of the first bidirectional inverter and the second bidirectional inverter.

3. A power system, comprising:
a first power conversion device and a second power conversion device, each of the first and the second power conversion devices being connected to different power supply source, and each of the first and second power conversion devices being connected to each other and configured to exchange power with each other;
a battery and a load connected in parallel with each other between the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, and configured to use the output power of each of the first and second power conversion devices; and
a controller configured to receive the output power of each of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, and to control a charging operation or a discharging operation of the battery based on the output power of each of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, such that the output power of each of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device comes close to a respective rated value that maximizes a power conversion efficiency of each of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device.

4. The power system according to claim 3 , wherein when the load consumes power from the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, the controller charges or discharges the battery based on a difference value between a consumption power of the load and respective rated values of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, such that each of the output values of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device comes close to respective rated values that maximize a power conversion efficiency of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device.

5. The power system according to claim 3 , wherein when the power is exchanged between the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, the controller charges or discharges the battery based on a difference value between an exchanged power and respective rated values of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device, such that each of the output values of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device comes close to respective rated values that maximize a power conversion efficiency of the first power conversion device and the second power conversion device.

6. A power management method for a power system comprising a power conversion device that performs power conversion between a power source and a load that is connected to an output side of the power conversion device, a battery connected to the output side of the power conversion device in parallel with the load, and a controller to control a charging operation or a discharging operation of the battery, the method comprising:
receiving an output power of the power conversion device;
determining a charging power to the battery based on a difference between the output power of the power conversion device and a rated value that maximizes a power conversion efficiency of the power conversion device, and starting the charging operation of the battery based on the determined charging power when the output power of the power conversion device is smaller than the rated value; and
determining a discharging power from the battery based on a difference between the output power of the power conversion device and the rated value, and starting the discharging operation of the battery based on the determined discharging power when the output power of the power conversion device is larger than the rated value.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Okabe Toshiya

Classifications

• H02J7/865

  Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply (H02J7/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02J7/007

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02J7/0068

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02J7/34 Primary

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

• H02M7/68

  by static converters · CPC title