Title :
Experimental assessment of a BESS control system for reducing fuel consumption and maintenance cost of diesel-hybrid mini-grids
Author :
Singh, Monika ; Lopes, Luiz A. C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
A battery energy storage system (BESS) was conceived to reduce fuel consumption and maintenance costs of diesel-hybrid mini-grids [1]. It operates in 2 different modes. In the genset support mode, it balances the load and maintains a unity PF for genset, and it supplies/absorbs power to force the genset to operate in a desired power range. In the grid forming mode, it provides a balanced voltage to a possibly highly unbalanced load, common in small autonomous power systems (mini-grids). In this paper, this theoretical study is taken to the next level by implementing it in the laboratory to assess its performance.
Keywords :
battery storage plants; cost reduction; diesel-electric power stations; power generation control; power generation economics; power grids; thermal energy storage; BESS control system; balanced voltage; battery energy storage system; diesel power plant; diesel-hybrid mini-grids; fuel consumption reduction; genset support mode; grid forming mode; load balancing; local electrical network; maintenance cost reduction; power range; small autonomous power systems; unbalanced load; unity PF maintains; BESS; diesel genset; diesel-hybrid mini-grid; grid forming mode; grid support mode;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2014), 7th IET International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manchester
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-815-8
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2014.0515
