Storage battery system

• US 10,044,200 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2013
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tmeic Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsurumaru, Daisuke, Hanada, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Mohammed
• Application Number:
  US14/914,195
• Publication Number:
  US 20160211681A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,783 Days
• Field of Search: 320112
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00302 Overcharge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00306 Overdischarge protection
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0031 using battery or load disconnect circuits H02J9/002 takes precedence

Abstract

A storage battery system connected to a power system includes: a storage battery; a BMU which monitors a state of the storage battery; a PCS which converts AC power of the power system into DC power to charge the storage battery with the DC power and converts DC power of the storage battery into AC power to discharge the AC power to the power system; and a control device. The control device receives a charge/discharge request from an EMS and storage battery information supplied from the BMU and controls the PCS based on the charge/discharge request and the storage battery information. The control device includes a charge/discharge command unit which calculates chargeable/dischargeable electric power based on the storage battery information and determines a charge/discharge command to the PCS based on the charge/discharge request by using the chargeable/dischargeable electric power as a constraint condition.

Claims

1. A storage battery system connected to a power system and operative based on a charge/discharge request from an energy management system that manages electric power supply/demand of the power system, the storage battery system comprising:

a plurality of storage battery modules connected in parallel;

a plurality of storage battery management units that are provided to each of the plurality of storage battery modules and are configured to monitor charge states of the plurality of storage battery modules;

a power conditioning system having a function of converting AC power of the power system into DC power and charging the plurality of storage battery modules with the DC power and a function of converting DC power of the plurality of storage battery modules into AC power and discharging the AC power to the power system; and

a control device configured to receive the charge/discharge request and storage battery information including cell voltage information supplied from the plurality of storage battery management units and to control the power conditioning system based on the charge/discharge request and the storage battery information including the cell voltage information, wherein

the control device includes a charge/discharge command unit configured to calculate chargeable/dischargeable electric power based on the storage battery information including the cell voltage information and to determine a charge/discharge command to the power conditioning system based on the charge/discharge request by using the chargeable/dischargeable electric power as a constraint condition.

2. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the control device further includes an interlock processing unit configured to perform interlock processing upon detection of abnormality of the storage battery system, the interlock processing corresponding to a content of the detected abnormality.

3. The storage battery system according to claim 2, wherein

the interlock processing unit is configured to detect abnormality of the storage battery system based on the storage battery information.

4. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to calculate the chargeable/dischargeable electric power based on the voltage of the storage battery.

5. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the storage battery includes a plurality of storage battery modules connected in parallel, each of the plurality of storage battery modules including a plurality of storage battery cells connected in series, and

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to calculate the chargeable/dischargeable electric power based on the voltage of the storage battery and the number of the storage battery modules connected in parallel.

6. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to determine the charge/discharge command so as to maximize charge/discharge electric power of the storage battery.

7. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

one PCS group includes one power conditioning system, one or more storage batteries, and one or more battery management units,

one control device is assigned to the plurality of PCS groups, and

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to determine the charge/discharge command for each of the PCS groups in accordance with the chargeable/dischargeable electric power calculated for each of the PCS groups.

8. The storage battery system according to claim 7, wherein

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to adjust the charge/discharge command among the plurality of PCS groups so that charge/discharge electric power of the entire plurality of PCS groups meets the charge/discharge request.

9. The storage battery system according to claim 7, wherein

the charge/discharge command unit is configured to calculate a SOC for each of the PCS groups and to determine the charge/discharge command for each of the PCS groups so that the SOCs of the PCS groups become uniform.

10. The storage battery system according to claim 1, wherein

the control device further includes an overdischarge prevention unit configured to automatically output a charge command to the power conditioning system regardless of the charge/discharge request to prevent the storage battery from reaching an overdischarging state, when the storage battery is close to the overdischarging state.

11. The storage battery system according to claim 10, wherein

the overdischarge prevention unit is configured to compare the voltage of the storage battery with a specified lower limit voltage and to detect that the storage battery is close to the overdischarging state when the voltage of the storage battery is equal to or below the lower limit voltage.

12. The storage battery system according to claim 10, wherein

the storage battery includes a plurality of storage battery modules connected in parallel, each of the plurality of storage battery modules including a plurality of storage battery cells connected in series, and

the overdischarge prevention unit is configured to compare a voltage of each of the storage battery cells with a specified lower limit cell voltage and to detect that the storage battery is close to the overdischarging state when the voltage of any one of the storage battery cells is equal to or below the lower limit cell voltage.