Modular design of cascaded H-bridge for community energy storage systems by using secondary traction batteries

This paper proposed a Community Energy Storage System (CES) by using reclaimed tractions batteries. The cascaded H-Bridge topology is selected for this application after reviewing all possible solutions. Control strategies to have independent control of each H-Bridge are reviewed and existing control strategies are all centralized control. To have modular design and independent control of each module, a new control strategy is proposed for cascaded H-Bridge converter. With this control strategy, each H-Bridge module will have its own controller and there is no connection between the controllers. All the control strategies are implemented in the local controllers and no central controller is needed. A small scale CES system is built to verify the proposed control strategy with great success.