Battery Energy Storage Test (BEST) Facility: second progress report, December 1979

Technical Report · Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6743206· OSTI ID:6743206

Pivec, A.; Hyman, E. A.

The Battery Energy Storage Test (BEST) Facility will be a national center for testing and evaluating battery energy storage systems, including associated electrical conversion equipment, developed for use on electric power grids. The BEST Facility program consists of four phases: design, construction, testing and acceptance, and operation. This interim progress report covers a middle period (July 1978 to December 1979) in construction of the facility, in procurement of major items of operating equipment, in developing plans for testing and acceptance of the facility prior to its use, and also in developing the plans for testing of advanced batteries during the subsequent operating life of the facility. Approximately one year remains to completion and acceptance. The building is now 90% complete. The power conversion system was completed and successfully factory tested. The station lead-acid battery modules were built, and the factory tests, completed. The station computer (monitor and control system) hardware was completed and software programming was begun. A startup and acceptance test manual was drafted. It will encompass the four-phase test program: factory testing, construction verification testing, operational testing, and acceptance testing. A Developers Users Group was convened several times, for the purpose of advising on the nature of the test programs and on compiling a Test Programs Guidelines document. Detail planning was also well along for test data processing equipment and procedures. A demonstration of some online computer procedures was given at the annual review meeting, using simulated battery performance data in a data base management system. Planning for the installation of a zinc chloride battery in 1981 in the second test bay was begun. 20 figures.

• Research Organization: Public Service Electric and Gas Research Corp., Newark, NJ (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76ET29368
• OSTI ID: 6743206
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-1514
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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25 ENERGY STORAGE
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EQUIPMENT INTERFACES
LEAD-ACID BATTERIES
OFF-PEAK ENERGY STORAGE
ON-LINE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS
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PLANNING
STORAGE
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