CN211127176U - Active equalization device for battery of energy storage power station - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an active battery equalization device for an energy storage power station, which includes a battery unit, a load switch group, a bypass bus, a main bus, and a feedback unit; a plurality of battery units are connected in series to the positive and negative electrodes of the main bus, and each battery unit is positive and negative. The negative terminal is connected to the positive and negative poles of the bypass busbar through a load switch, and the main busbar is connected to the bypass busbar through a feedback unit. The utility model can realize the operation of charging, discharging and bypassing the battery energy storage unit independently under the uninterrupted state, greatly improving the operation reliability of the energy storage battery; Volume high frequency transformer isolation, high reliability and low cost.

Description

A battery active equalization device for energy storage power station

technical field

The utility model relates to an active battery equalization device and method for an energy storage power station, belonging to the field of battery energy storage.

Background technique

Among many forms of energy storage, battery energy storage has developed rapidly and has become the energy storage technology with the most potential applications. The advantages of the device form that is easy to integrate are suitable for improving the output characteristics of large-scale renewable energy, improving the consumption of distributed renewable energy on the user side, demand-side response, and peak shaving and valley filling. The basic energy storage unit of the battery energy storage power station is the battery, and the energy storage power station is composed of a large number of batteries in series and parallel. In the battery manufacturing process, due to process problems and material inhomogeneity, differences in the temperature, ventilation conditions, internal resistance and capacity of each battery pack, or failures, the uneven voltage of the energy storage battery occurs during operation, which not only affects the battery pack. The damage to the unit cell also affects other energy storage units in the series circuit. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the operating status of the battery and take countermeasures for failures.

Utility model patent documents 201711332294.8 and 201810674729.5 disclose two battery pack active balance maintenance methods. A large number of semiconductor switches such as MOS tubes are used in this method, which is suitable for small-capacity energy storage battery packs such as electric vehicles. For MW/MWh-level energy storage power stations, this method has high power level of semiconductor switches, not only cost high, and the extensive use of high-power semiconductor switches can seriously reduce operational reliability.

Utility model content

The purpose of the present invention is to overcome the above-mentioned deficiencies in the prior art, and to provide an active balancing device for batteries in an energy storage power station. For this reason, the utility model adopts the following technical solutions:

An active battery equalization device for an energy storage power station, which is characterized in that it includes a battery unit, a load switch group, a bypass bus, a main bus, and a feedback unit; a plurality of battery units are connected in series to the positive and negative electrodes of the main bus, and each battery unit is positive and negative. The terminals are connected to the positive and negative poles of the bypass busbar through a load switch, and the main busbar is connected to the bypass busbar through a feedback unit.

Further, the feedback unit includes a high-frequency transformer, a series power switch, a diode, a capacitor, a load switch, a resistor, and a parallel power switch; the load switch and the series power switch in the feedback unit are connected in series to the high-frequency transformer high-voltage side; the parallel connection After the power switch is connected in series with the resistor, it is connected in parallel with the capacitor, and is connected to the low-voltage side of the high-frequency transformer through the diode. The power switches may be IGBTs or IGCTs or GTOs.

The battery unit is a basic battery module formed by several batteries in series and parallel.

For the above-mentioned active battery equalization device of the energy storage power station of the present invention, the feedback unit may, when the load switch of the battery unit is turned on, either consume the power of the battery unit or supply power to the battery based on the power supply of the main bus according to different fault states of the battery. The unit is charged, and its control method is as follows:

The battery management system monitors each battery unit. When each battery unit is normal, all load switches are off;

When it is detected that the ith battery cell voltage U _i is higher than the first threshold value, wherein the first threshold value is higher than the battery cell voltage rated value U _N , the following steps are adopted:

(1-1) Close the load switch corresponding to the battery unit, connect the battery unit to the bypass bus, and send a pulse width modulation control signal with a duty ratio of D to the parallel power switch at this time:

k ₁ is the amplification factor. At this time, the average power P _k of the faulty battery unit consumed by the resistor R is:

(1-2) When the voltage U _i of the faulty battery unit drops below the second threshold, disconnect the load switch corresponding to the battery unit, stop sending control signals to the parallel power switch, the battery unit is put into the series circuit again, the second The threshold is between the battery cell voltage rating _UN and the first threshold value, and is closer to the battery cell voltage rating _UN ; by setting different resistor resistance values R, the fault battery discharge power rate can be changed.

When it is detected that the i-th battery cell voltage Ui is lower than a third threshold, wherein the third threshold is lower than the battery cell voltage rating U _N , the following steps are used:

(2-1) Close the load switch corresponding to the battery unit, and connect the battery unit to the bypass bus; close the load switch, and send a pulse width modulation control signal with a duty ratio of D to the series power switch

k ₂ is the amplification factor. At this time, the main bus is charging the faulty battery unit through the feedback unit and the bypass bus. The output voltage U _f of the feedback unit is:

Among them, M is the number of battery cells in series in each string, N ₁ and N ₂ are the turns of the primary and secondary windings of the high-frequency transformer, respectively, and k ₂ is the amplification factor; further, the charging power is:

(2-2) When the voltage U _i of the faulty battery unit recovers to a value greater than the fourth threshold, disconnect the load switch corresponding to the battery unit, stop sending control signals to the series power switch, and put the battery unit back into the series circuit, the fourth The threshold is between the cell voltage rating _UN and the third threshold value, and is closer to the cell voltage rating _UN .

Further, the first threshold is 110% of the battery cell voltage rating _UN ; the second threshold is 103% battery cell voltage rating _UN ; the third threshold is the battery cell voltage rating _UN 90% of ; the fourth threshold is 97% of the cell voltage rating _UN .

Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the following advantages and effects: the battery energy storage unit can be independently charged, discharged, bypassed and other operations in the uninterrupted state, and the operation reliability of the energy storage battery is greatly improved; A power switch device, the main busbar and the bypass busbar are isolated by a small-sized high-frequency transformer, with high reliability and low cost.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic circuit diagram of an active battery equalization device for an energy storage power station according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a working circuit diagram of the device of the present invention when the voltage of the faulty battery unit is high.

FIG. 3 is a working circuit diagram of the device of the present invention when the voltage of the faulty battery unit is low.

Detailed ways

The present utility model will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and the embodiments. The following embodiments are the explanations of the present utility model and the present utility model is not limited to the following embodiments.

Referring to FIG. 1 , an active battery equalization device for an energy storage power station of the present invention includes a battery unit 1 , a load switch group 2 , a bypass bus 3 , a main bus 4 , and a feedback unit 5 .

The battery unit is a basic battery module composed of 20 batteries in series and 3 parallels with 60 batteries, and the rated voltage of each battery unit is 50V. 12 battery cells are connected in series to form a battery cluster.

The load switch group 2 is composed of 24 load switches, and the positive and negative electrodes of each battery unit are respectively connected to the bypass bus 3 .

The feedback unit includes a high frequency transformer 5.1, a series power switch 5.2, a diode 5.3, a capacitor 5.4, a load switch 5.5, a resistor 5.6, and a parallel power switch 5.7. The power switch is an IGBT. The load switch 5.5 and the series power switch 5.2 are connected in series to the high voltage side of the high frequency transformer 5.1; the parallel power switch 5.7 is connected in series with the resistor 5.6, and then connected in parallel with the capacitor 5.4, and is connected to the low voltage side of the high frequency transformer 5.1 through the diode 5.3 .

During operation, the battery management system monitors each battery unit, and when each battery unit is normal, all load switches are off;

When it is detected that the voltage U _i of the i-th battery unit is 60V, the load switch corresponding to the unit is closed, and the battery unit is connected to the bypass bus 3. At this time, a pulse width modulation with a duty ratio of D is sent to the parallel power switch 5.7. control signal:

The amplification factor is 2, and the resistance value of the resistor is 2Ω. At this time, the average power P _k of the faulty battery unit consumed by the resistor is:

When the voltage U _i of the faulty battery unit drops to <51.5V, the closed load switch is disconnected, the control signal to the power switch is stopped, and the battery unit is put into the series circuit again.

When it is detected that the voltage U _i of the i-th battery unit is 40V, the load switch corresponding to the unit is closed, and the faulty battery unit is bypassed; the feedback loop load switch 5.5 is closed, and a pulse with a duty ratio of D is sent to the series power switch 5.2 Width Modulation Control Signal

The amplification factor k ₂ is set to 1.6, the number of turns on the primary side of the high-frequency transformer is N1=120 turns, and the number of turns on the secondary side is N2=20 turns. At this time, the main bus will charge the faulty battery, and the output voltage U _f of the feedback unit is:

Further, the charging power is (the internal resistance of the battery unit is about 0.1Ω):

When the voltage U _i of the faulty battery unit is higher than 48.5V, the previously closed load switch is disconnected, the control signal to the power switch is stopped, and the battery unit is put into the series circuit again.

During the period from closing to disconnection of the load switch corresponding to the ith battery unit, the operation of other battery units in the series circuit where the ith battery unit is located is not affected.

The above embodiment is only a preferred technical solution of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should understand that the technical solutions or parameters in the embodiments can be modified or replaced without departing from the principle and essence of the present invention. , all should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention.

Claims (2)

1. The utility model provides an energy storage power station battery initiative balancing unit which characterized in that: the system comprises a battery unit, a load switch group, a bypass bus, a main bus and a feedback unit; the battery units are connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the main bus in series, the positive and negative ends of each battery unit are connected to the positive and negative electrodes of the bypass bus through the load switches, and the main bus is connected with the bypass bus through the feedback unit.

2. The active energy storage power station battery equalization apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the feedback unit comprises a high-frequency transformer, a series power switch, a diode, a capacitor, a load switch, a resistor and a parallel power switch; a load switch and a series power switch in the feedback unit are connected in series to the high-voltage side of the high-frequency transformer; the parallel power switch is connected with the resistor in series, then connected with the capacitor in parallel and connected to the low-voltage side of the high-frequency transformer through the diode.

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