Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications

Boles, Jessica D.; Ma, Yiwei; Wang, Jingxin; Osipov, Denis; Tolbert, Leon M.; Wang, Fred

doi:10.1109/TIA.2019.2914421

Title: Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications

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Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) tend to be too costly, restrictive, and require high maintenance for experimental use, but power system tests often need their representation. As a solution, we propose an all-in-one, reconfigurable BESS emulation tool for grid applications that only requires one three-phase voltage-source converter. This emulator provides chemistry-specific battery behavior like previous work, but it also includes the BESS's power electronics interface and control as well as automatic frequency and voltage support functions for the attached power system. Thus, it allows simple, plug-and-play BESS emulation for grid applications. Here, this paper details the construction, verification, and use of the BESS emulator in an existing grid testbed and concludes that it provides an inexpensive, easy-to-use alternative to using real BESSs in power system experiments.

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^[1]; Wang, Fred ^[1]

Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

Publication Date:: Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1559622

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0093-9994

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 25 ENERGY STORAGE; batteries; battery energy storage systems (BESSs); emulation; hardware-in-the-loop; power systems; test equipment; voltage-source converters (VSCs)

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                    Boles, Jessica D., Ma, Yiwei, Wang, Jingxin, Osipov, Denis, Tolbert, Leon M., and Wang, Fred. Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Boles, Jessica D., Ma, Yiwei, Wang, Jingxin, Osipov, Denis, Tolbert, Leon M., & Wang, Fred. Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2019.2914421

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                    Boles, Jessica D., Ma, Yiwei, Wang, Jingxin, Osipov, Denis, Tolbert, Leon M., and Wang, Fred. Wed .  
"Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2019.2914421.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1559622.

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@article{osti_1559622,

  title        = {Converter-Based Emulation of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) for Grid Applications},

  author       = {Boles, Jessica D. and Ma, Yiwei and Wang, Jingxin and Osipov, Denis and Tolbert, Leon M. and Wang, Fred},

  abstractNote = {Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) tend to be too costly, restrictive, and require high maintenance for experimental use, but power system tests often need their representation. As a solution, we propose an all-in-one, reconfigurable BESS emulation tool for grid applications that only requires one three-phase voltage-source converter. This emulator provides chemistry-specific battery behavior like previous work, but it also includes the BESS's power electronics interface and control as well as automatic frequency and voltage support functions for the attached power system. Thus, it allows simple, plug-and-play BESS emulation for grid applications. Here, this paper details the construction, verification, and use of the BESS emulator in an existing grid testbed and concludes that it provides an inexpensive, easy-to-use alternative to using real BESSs in power system experiments.},

  doi          = {10.1109/TIA.2019.2914421},

  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications},

  number       = 4,

  volume       = 55,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019},

  month        = {Wed May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2019}

}

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