This non-provisional application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) on Patent Application No(s). 110135575 filed in Taiwan, ROC on Sep. 24, 2021, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), and more particular to a BESS capable of providing the electricity with the maximal power and operation method thereof.
In order to balance the demand of carbon reduction and industrial development, more and more renewable energy sources, such as solar power, wind power, are utilized in the existing electricity grid. However, renewable energy cannot be completely controlled by humans. When the ratio of the electricity provided by renewable energy to the overall electricity provided by the electricity grid increases, it is easy to cause shortage in the supplied power of the electricity grid, thereby increasing the risk of power tripping.
The fast charging and discharging characteristics of the BESS can provide a variety of services for the electricity grid, effectively reducing the impact when the renewable energy is integrated into the electricity grid. However, improper operation methods will seriously affect the efficiency and service life of the BESS. Therefore, there is a dire need for a control method for optimizing the input and output of the BESS.
In view of this, the present disclosure proposes a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and operation method thereof. Under the condition that the total input and output of the energy storage system remain unchanged, the present disclosure may perform a fast and appropriate power distribution to ensure that the BESS can have maximized input and output.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an operation method of BESS applicable to a BESS, wherein the BESS comprises a plurality of energy storage units connected in parallel and a processor, each of the plurality of energy storage units comprises a Power Conversion System (PCS) and a battery module, and the operation method comprises following operations performed by the processor: obtaining at least one of a specified operation power and a specified State of Charge (SOC) of the BESS; calculating an available operation period of each of the plurality of the energy storage units according to a maximal operation power of the PCS of each of the plurality of energy storage units and a remaining power of each of the battery module of each of the plurality of energy storage units; determining an operational order corresponding to the plurality of energy storage units at least according to the available operation period of each of the plurality of energy storage units and the specified operation power of the BESS; and controlling an operation of each of the plurality of energy storage units according to the operational order.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a BESS comprising: an input interface configured to obtain a specified operation power of the BESS; a plurality of energy storage units connected in parallel, wherein each of the plurality of energy storage unit comprises a PCS and a battery module, and the PCS is electrically connected to the battery module for charging the battery module or discharging the battery module; and a processor electrically connected to the input interface and the plurality of energy storage unit, wherein the processor is configured to perform following operations: calculating an available operation period of each of the plurality of the energy storage units according to a maximal operation power of each of the plurality of PCS and a remaining power of each of the plurality of battery module; determining an operational order corresponding to the plurality of energy storage units at least according to the available operation period of each of the plurality of energy storage units and the specified operation power of the BESS; and controlling an operation of each of the plurality of energy storage units according to the operational order.
In view of the above, the present disclosure provides a BESS and an operation method thereof. Through the optimization of the input/output power configuration, the present disclosure avoids the following situation: some energy storage units discharge all the energy or be fully charged in advance since each battery module has a different SOC, this situation will reduce the overall maximal input/output capacity of the BESS. The present disclosure allows the BESS to extend the duration of maximal power input/output, and to meet the requirements of the specified operation power or the specified SOC.
The present disclosure will become more fully understood from the detailed description given herein below and the accompanying drawings which are given by way of illustration only and thus are not limitative of the present disclosure and wherein:
In the following detailed description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the disclosed embodiments. According to the description, claims and the drawings disclosed in the specification, one skilled in the art may easily understand the concepts and features of the present invention. The following embodiments further illustrate various aspects of the present invention, but are not meant to limit the scope of the present invention.
The structures of the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 are identical basically. For example, the energy storage unit may be a rack or a container, however, the present disclosure is not limited thereof. The energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 comprise PCS 31, 41 and 51 and battery modules 32, 42, and 52. The PCS 31, 41 and 51 are electrically connected to the battery modules 32, 42, and 52 respectively, for charging or discharging their own battery module 32, 42, and 52.
The input interface 1 is configured to obtain a specified operation power of the BESS 100. In practice, the user may use the input interface 1 to enter the specified operation power of the BESS 100. It should be noted that the upper bound of the specified operation power does not greater than a sum of the input/output power of all energy storage units. In addition, the present disclosure does not limit that the implementation of the input interface 1 is a software or a hardware. For example, the input interface 1 may be an application loaded to a computing device such as a desktop computer, a laptop, or a smart phone. In another example, the input interface 1 may be a physical operation interface with a monitor and a keyboard device.
The processor 2 is electrically connected to the input interface 1 and the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5. The processor 2 is configured to perform the following steps: calculating an available operation period of each of energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 according to a maximal operation power of each of the PCS 31, 41 and 51 and a remaining power of each of the battery modules 32, 42, and 52; at least according to the available operation periods of the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 and the specified operation power of the BESS 100, determining an operational order corresponding to the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5; and controlling the operation of each of the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 according to the operational order.
Step S1 represents “obtaining at least one of the specified operation power of the BESS and the specified SOC”. Specifically, when the BESS 100 performs the discharging operations, the specified operation power represents the overall discharging power of the BESS 100. When the BESS 100 performs the charging operation, the specified operation power is viewed as the overall charging power of the BESS 100, and the specified SOC is viewed as the expected value of the charging power of the entire BESS 100. The expected value of the charging power represents the total SOC the BESS expects to maintain, i.e., the percentage of the total energy stored by all battery modules to the total capacity of all battery modules in the BESS. For example, the SOC may be set as 60% (i.e. SOCtotal=60%), so that the BESS is capable of charging or discharging. In practice, the expected value of charging power is set according to the actual needs.
Step S2 represents “calculating an available operation period of each energy storage unit”. Specifically, when the BESS 100 performs discharging operations, the available operation period may be viewed as an available dischargeable period; and when the BESS 100 performs charging operations, the available operation period may be viewed as a remaining chargeable period.
Step S3 represents “determining an operational order of the energy storage unit”. Specifically,
On the other hand, when the BESS 100 is in the charging state, the processor 2 may set high to low operational priorities for long to short remaining chargeable periods, respectively, as shown in Step S33. The principle of the above method is to make the energy storage unit with less remaining power returning to the power enough to operate for a long time as soon as possible.
It should be noticed that when two of all available operation periods are equal, the processor 2 determines the operational order of these two energy storage units according to parameters of the two energy storage unit corresponding to two identical available operation periods, wherein the parameters comprise at least one of the maximal operation power of the PCS, the conversion efficiency of the PCS, and the State of Health (SOH) of the battery module. In other words, in addition to adjusting the operational order of charging and discharging according to the available operation period, other parameters can also be used as auxiliary references. On the whole, the processor 2 determines the operational order corresponding to these energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 at least according to multiple available operation periods of energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 and the specified operation power.
The maximal operation power described in the above may be a rated power of the PSC or a specified power defined by the user. For example, the rated power of the PCS may be 3 megawatts (MW), but the BESS may set the maximal output of the PCS as 2 MW according to actual needs, however.
Step S4 represents “controlling the operation of each energy storage unit according to operational order”. Specifically,
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Referring to Table 1, the processor 2 may calculate the maximal operation power of the BESS 100, i.e., 2+1+3=6 MW, as well as the current stored energy of battery modules 32, 42, and 52, i.e., “4*50%=2 MWh”, “2*20%=0.4 MWh”, and “8*40%=3.2 MWh”.
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If there are more than two energy storage units whose available dischargeable period tmax are identical, the processor 2 may determine the operational order according to the maximal operation power Prated of the PCS. If there are still two or more energy storage units with the same maximal operation power Prated, the processor 2 will determine the operational order according to the conversion efficiency of the PCS or the SOH of the battery module.
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From the numbers of the examples listed in Table 1 to Table 4, it can be seen that the operation method of the BESS proposed by the present disclosure is to conditionally select specific energy storage units 5 and 3 for discharging operations. If all energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 are used to evenly distribute the specified operation power Ptot_target for the discharging operation, the energy storage unit 4 with the smallest SOC of the battery module is bound to exhaust all the power in advance. Once the BESS 100 is required to provide the operation power of 6 MW, the BESS 100 that has exhausted the energy of the energy storage unit 4 will not be able to meet the demand. On the other hand, the operation method of the BESS proposed by the present disclosure can avoid the above problem. In addition, for the electricity grid whose adjustment requirement occurs at any time interval (such as every second or every minute), the present disclosure can be adjusted to optimize the BESS 100 according to the requirements of the specified operation power Ptot_target.
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In Step S2, the processor 2 calculates the available dischargeable period tmax of each of the energy storage units 3, 4 and 5, according to Equation 1. Moreover, the processor 2 further uses Equation 2 below to calculate the required target charging time ttarget that each of the PCS 31, 41 and 51 starts charging with the maximal operating power from the SOC of 0% until the battery modules 32, 42, and 52 meet the specified SOCtot_target.
The following Table 5 lists the target charging time ttarget and the remaining chargeable period Δt of each of the energy storage units 3, 4, and 5. The remaining chargeable period Δt is a difference value between the target charging time ttarget and the available dischargeable period tmax.
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Supposed that there are more than two energy storage units whose remaining chargeable periods Δt are identical, the processor 2 will determines the operational order according to the maximal operation power Prated of the PCS. If there are still two or more energy storage units with the same maximal operation power Prated, the processor 2 will determine the operational order according to the conversion efficiency of the PCS or the SOH of the battery module.
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From the numbers of the examples listed in Table 5 to Table 6, it can be seen that the operation method of the BESS proposed by the present disclosure is to conditionally select specific energy storage units 4 and 5 for charging operation. If all energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 perform the charging operations concurrently, the overall charging efficiency will be affected by battery modules with lower SOC in an undesired way. Once the BESS 100 is required to provide 6 MW of operation power, the power supply time of the BESS that uses all energy storage units 3, 4 and 5 to charge at the same time is less than the power supply time of the BESS 100 that uses the operation method proposed by the present disclosure. In addition, for the adjustment requirements of the electricity grid at any time interval (such as every second or every minute), the present disclosure can optimize the BESS 100 according to the requirements of the specified SOCtot_target, and repeated correction of the power dispatch can make the BESS 100 maintain the state of maximal output time with maximum power.
In view of the above, the present disclosure provides a BESS and an operation method thereof. Through the optimization of the input/output power configuration, the present disclosure can avoid the following situation: some energy storage units are fully discharged or fully charged in advance since each battery module has a different SOC, this situation will reduce the overall maximal input/output capacity of the BESS. The present disclosure allows the BESS to extend the duration of maximal power input/output, and to meet the requirements of the specified operation power or the specified SOC.
The present disclosure is applicable to energy storage application fields with rapidly changing output, such as automatic frequency adjustment auxiliary services, applications for smoothing the output of renewable energy, and can also be applied to general energy storage application fields referred to as “peak cut” that adjusts the power load. The present disclosure can be implemented to provide high technical feasibility, easy commercialization and low cost without using complex statistical analytical methods and related software.
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110135575 | Sep 2021 | TW | national |