Title :
A battery node for power plant monitoring systems
Author :
Bizouard, Jean ; Schneider, Victor ; Boost, Mike
Author_Institution :
C&D Technol., Tucson, AZ, USA
Abstract :
Valve regulated lead acid batteries have become the dominant battery for outside plant power system applications. As the usage mushroomed due to tremendous advantages over flooded cells, complaints about short life, unexpected failures, unplanned service calls and general capacity loss have surfaced. This paper presents a “battery node” proposal which strategically monitors and controls up to four strings of batteries. The battery node is targeted to be “online” with full time data acquisition, status calculations and reserve time and life prediction, yet maintain a minimal cost impact by design to the user
Keywords :
battery storage plants; battery testers; computerised monitoring; lead acid batteries; power engineering computing; reliability; battery capacity loss; battery failure; battery life; battery node; battery power plant monitoring systems; battery strings; data acquisition; life prediction; reserve time prediction; status calculations; valve-regulated Pb-acid batteries; Automatic testing; Batteries; Condition monitoring; Costs; Data acquisition; Electronic equipment testing; Power generation; Power systems; Proposals; Valves;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications Energy Conference, 1998. INTELEC. Twentieth International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5069-3
DOI :
10.1109/INTLEC.1998.793607
