Online control of energy storage system

• Main Author: Lim, Kenneth Wei Kiat.
• Other Authors: Gooi Hoay Beng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electric power::Auxiliaries, applications and electric industries
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53334
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Laboratory for Clean Energy Research (LaCER) is equipped with lithium-ion batteries and ultra-capacitors. In order to ward the batteries against excessive charging/ discharging and also unbalanced voltage across each battery, a suitable energy storage hardware configuration of these energy storage devices, a form of balancing circuit and their protection would have to be proposed and designed. As a final year student embarking on his epitome of his studies, I would have to strategise and incorporate a charge/discharge control scheme in Labview software to control a 5-kVA bi-directional energy storage controller, otherwise encapsulated as a smart battery management system, as the core component of my final year project. The energy storage hardware configuration and the charge/discharge software control scheme should be implemented for control plus operation of Micro-grid Energy Management System (MG-EMS) at the LaCER lab.