Battery Pack Power Scheduling for Reliable Energy Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing energy storage systems face challenges in providing reasonable power scheduling, leading to inefficiencies and potential failures in supporting various functional services within electric power systems.

Innovation Solution

An energy storage system comprising a plurality of battery packs, a converter, and a controller that communicates with user equipment to obtain information and control the converter and battery packs based on user scheduling powers, ensuring reasonable power allocation and scheduling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the energy storage system provides functional services without reasonable power scheduling, then the system can operate, but the output power and remaining stored energy cannot support the functional services, leading to system failure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem reliabilityVSAvoidpower scheduling capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The controller obtains information about user equipment in advance and determines actual user scheduling powers before the energy storage system provides functional services. This preliminary power scheduling ensures that the output power and remaining stored energy can support the intended functional services, preventing system failure while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the energy storage system operates without obtaining user equipment information, then the system structure remains simple, but the system cannot provide reasonable power scheduling, leading to inability to support functional services

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepower scheduling adaptabilityVSAvoidcontroller complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The controller is designed to perform multiple functions: obtaining user equipment information, determining actual user scheduling powers, and controlling the converter and battery packs. This multi-functional controller enables the energy storage system to adapt to different user equipment and provide reasonable power scheduling without requiring separate dedicated devices for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If the controller controls the converter and battery packs without obtaining user equipment information, then the control process is simple, but the power allocation is unreasonable, leading to system failure

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenergy storage utilizationVSAvoidinformation acquisition time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The controller obtains user equipment information and determines actual user scheduling powers before controlling the converter and battery packs. This preliminary action ensures reasonable power allocation and maximizes energy storage utilization, while the time required for information acquisition is minimized through efficient communication protocols and processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The proposed solution enables efficient and reasonable power scheduling, improving the utilization of the energy storage system, ensuring reliable functional services, and preventing system failures.

Implementation Method 1

a converter, and a controller, where the battery packs are connected to a grid through the converter

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectromagnetic induction: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentEP4089871B1Energy storage system and related method
Publication Date: 2025.01.29 HUAWEI DIGITAL POWER TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of this application provide an energy storage system and a related method. In the energy storage system provided in the embodiments of this application, a controller obtains information about user equipment, and then controls a converter and a battery group based on the information about the user equipment, to supply electric energy to an electric device or receive electric energy from a power sourcing device. This embodiment of this application can provide reasonable power scheduling, thereby improving utilization of the energy storage system.