Control of second-life hybrid battery energy storage system based on modular boost-multilevel buck converter

Nilanjan Mukherjee, Dani Strickland

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Abstract

To fully utilize second-life batteries on the grid system, a hybrid battery scheme needs to be considered for several reasons: the uncertainty over using a single source supply chain for second-life batteries, the differences in evolving battery chemistry and battery configuration by different suppliers to strive for greater power levels, and the uncertainty of degradation within a second-life battery. Therefore, these hybrid battery systems could have widely different module voltage, capacity, and initial state of charge and state of health. In order to suitably integrate and control these widely different batteries, a suitable multimodular converter topology and an associated control structure are required. This paper addresses these issues proposing a modular boost-multilevel buck converter based topology to integrate these hybrid second-life batteries to a grid-tie inverter. Thereafter, a suitable module-based distributed control architecture is introduced to independently utilize each converter module according to its characteristics. The proposed converter and control architecture are found to be flexible enough to integrate widely different batteries to an inverter dc link. Modeling, analysis, and experimental validation are performed on a single-phase modular hybrid battery energy storage system prototype to understand the operation of the control strategy with different hybrid battery configurations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1034-1046
Number of pages13
JournalIEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Volume62
Issue number2
Early online date24 Jul 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2015

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Funding: EPSRC, Grant EP/1008764/1

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