Mission Profile Emulator for MMC-based Battery Energy Storage Systems

William Caires Silva Amorim; Joao Victor Guimarães França; Allan Fagner Cupertino; Victor Flores Mendes; Heverton Augusto Pereira

doi:10.18618/REP.2022.2.0035

Authors

William Caires Silva Amorim Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Joao Victor Guimarães França Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Allan Fagner Cupertino Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Victor Flores Mendes Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Heverton Augusto Pereira Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18618/REP.2022.2.0035

Keywords:

Design Validation, Mission Profile Emulators (MPE), MMC-based BESS, Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC), Testing Scheme

Abstract

In recent years, Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) have been widely used in medium/high voltage applications, such as high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, and pointed out as a promising solution for battery energy storage systems (BESS) and static synchronous compensators (STATCOM), according to recent research. Especially, in BESS application, the current and voltage conditions in the battery bank are fundamental to evaluate thermal dynamic, reliability, and lifetime. However, depending on the voltage and power levels, MMC is based on hundreds of SMs. Thus, the full MMC system implementation can be costly and complex for operational and reliability tests. In this sense, the so-called mission profile emulators (MPE), have been developed to emulate the voltage and current in an SM and batteries. The MPE eliminates the need to implement the full converter and contributes to more agile tests of the MMC dynamics, resulting in the design of more reliable converters. In addition, the MPE can be used to obtain battery current and arm current spectrum similar to those obtained in MMC. This work presents a detailed design and implementation of the MPE for an MMC-based BESS. The MPE is validated in simulations and in a reduced-scale prototype.

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Author Biographies

William Caires Silva Amorim, Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidade Federal de Vic¸osa (UFV), Vic¸osa, Brazil, in 2018. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2019. In this institution, he carried out research in the area of information theory, with emphasis on Coding Theory by the PICME Program. He has been an EBTT Professor with the Advanced Campus Itabirito, IFMG, since 2022. He was a Substitute Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering in UFV and a Researcher Assistant with Gerencia de Especialistas em Eletrônica de Potência (GESEP). His research interests include power electronics and electrical power systems, with focus in the modular multilevel cascade converters and BESS.

Joao Victor Guimarães França, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

Graduating in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Vic¸osa (UFV). He has high school and technical education in Electrotechnics at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG). He is currently a Researcher Assistant with Gerencia de Especialistas em Eletrônica de Potência (GESEP). He held an internal internship in the Materials Strength laboratory of the civil engineering department for a year, where he developed prototypes for practical classes using electrical strain gauges and Arduino plates.

Allan Fagner Cupertino, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil, in 2013, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. He was a guest Ph.D. with the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University from 2018 to 2019. Since 2014, he has been with the Electric Engineering Department, Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the area of electric machines and power electronics. His main research interests include renewable power generation systems, multifunctional inverters, MMC and reliability of power electronics based systems. Dr. Cupertino was the recipient of the President Bernardes Silver Medal in 2013. He is a member of the Brazilian Power Electronics Society, IEEE Power Energy, IEEE Power Electronics, and IEEE Industry Applications Society

Victor Flores Mendes, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

received the B.E.E. degree in control and automation engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2008, and the M.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from UFMG in 2009 and 2013, respectively. In 2010, he developed part of his thesis with the Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. He is currently a Professor with UFMG. His main research interests include wind and photovoltaic energy conversion systems, applications and control of power electronics, and power quality aspects of distributed generation grid integration.

Heverton Augusto Pereira, Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil

received the B.S. degree from the Federal Federal University of Vic¸osa (UFV), Vic¸osa, Brazil, in 2007, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2015, all in electrical engineering. He was a visiting Researcher from the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2014. He has been an Adjunct Professor with the Electric Engineering Department, UFV, since 2009. His main research interests include grid-connected converters for PV and wind power systems, and high-voltage dc/flexible ac transmission systems.

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