ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

• US 20150372511A1
• Filed: 06/11/2015
• Published: 12/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: TSUCHIYA, SHIZUO, MISE, ATSUSHI
• Granted Patent: US 9,641,005 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2207/20 Charging or discharging characterised by the power electronics converter
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0013 acting upon several batteries simultaneously or sequentially H02J7/1423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0048 Detection of remaining charge capacity or state of charge [SOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/005 Detection of state of health [SOH]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/061 for DC powered loads
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/70 Hybrid systems, e.g. uninterruptible or back-up power supplies integrating renewable energies
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/10 Applications of fuel cells in buildings

Abstract

An electric power supply system is provided. The electric power supply system includes charge and discharge devices capable of performing a system interconnection to charge and discharge a power system. At least one of the charge and discharge devices is capable of performing a simulated system operation of supplying electric power of constant power and constant frequency to the power system when an abnormality occurs in a commercial power supply. According to a check result on a state of charge of an electricity storage, electric power supplied from a distributed power supply, and consumption power in a load, the electric power supply system can simultaneously charge or discharge electricity storages of the charge and discharge devices, and preferentially charges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation, and preferentially discharges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the system interconnection.

Claims

1. An electric power supply system comprising:

a distributed power supply capable of supplying electric power to a power system that is also supplied with electric power from a commercial power supply and is capable of supplying electric power to a load;

a plurality of charge and discharge devices each including a chargeable and dischargeable electricity storage and capable of performing a system interconnection of performing a charging and discharging operation on the power system;

a switch device for connecting the commercial power supply to the power system when the commercial power supply is normal, and for disconnecting the commercial power supply from the power system when the commercial power supply has an abnormality; and

a control unit for controlling the charge and discharge devices,

wherein at least one of the plurality of charge and discharge devices is capable of performing a simulated system operation of supplying the electric power with a constant power and a constant frequency to the power system when the abnormality occurs in the commercial power supply,

the control unit including;

a charge state obtaining section for obtaining states of charge of the electricity storages;

a state checking section for performing a state check based on the states of charge of the electricity storages when the abnormality occurs in the commercial power supply; and

a charge and discharge control section capable of simultaneously charging and discharging the electricity storages of the plurality of charge and discharge devices in accordance with a check result of the state checking section, the electric power supplied from the distributed power supply, and consumption power in the load, wherein the charge and discharge control section preferentially charges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation and preferentially discharges the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the system interconnection.

2. The electric power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

at least two of the charge and discharge devices are each capable of performing the simulated system operation, and

the control unit further includes a switch section for, every switch period, switching over the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation.

3. The electric power supply system according to claim 2, wherein

a lower limit value related to the state of charge of the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation is set as a first lower limit value and a lower limit value related to the state of charge of the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device performing the system interconnection is set to a second lower limit value smaller than the first lower limit value,

the control unit further includes a lower-limit-value changing section,

at a predetermined timing before a switching timing of switching over the charge and discharge device performing the simulated system operation, the lower limit value related to the state of charge of the electricity storage of the charge and discharge device that performs the simulated system operation after the switching over is changed from the second lower limit value to the first lower limit value by the lower-limit-value changing section.

4. The electric power supply system according to claim 1, wherein

the control unit further includes a check cycle changing section,

the check cycle changing section sets a check cycle of the state check to be longer than a normal check cycle when the number of state transitions, which is the number of times the state of charge of the electricity storage traverses a state check threshold related to the state check in a predetermined period, is equal to or greater than a predetermined number of times and a change amount of the state of charge of the electricity storage in the predetermined period is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

5. The electric power supply system according to claim 4, wherein

the control unit further includes an obtain cycle changing section for setting an obtain cycle, which is a cycle of obtaining the state of charge of the electricity storage, to be shorter than a normal obtain cycle when the state of charge of the electricity storage is within a monitor cycle changing range including the state check threshold.