A practical digital VRB simulator for power system and smart grid applications

Author

Junwen Xie ; Jiming Lu ; Chengxiong Mao ; Dan Wang ; Yang Yi ; Changsong Yi ; Yong Luo ; Jie Zeng ; Xun Chen

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Adv. Electromagn. Eng. & Technol. (AEET), Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

There is a growing interest in using battery energy storage system (BESS), especially Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRB), in power system and smart grid. Usually, the usage of real VRB brings many problems. This paper looks into modeling VRB and designing a digital VRB simulator which is capable of simulating V-I characteristics of VRB with high accuracy. It has many advantages, such as low cost, easy to use, convenience to adjust VRB parameters and so on. Simulation and experimental results showed good performance and satisfied effect.

Keywords

battery management systems; energy storage; power system simulation; smart power grids; BESS; V-I characteristics; battery energy storage system; digital VRB simulator; power system; smart grid applications; vanadium redox flow battery; Batteries; Discharges (electric); Power conversion; Power system stability; System-on-chip; Voltage control; VRB; VSC; model; power electronics; simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering and Automation Conference (PEAM), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1599-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEAM.2012.6612431

Filename

6612431