Battery Management Systems

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Expertise in battery management systems including the ability to monitor temperature, state-of-charge, and maintain the system within safe operating limits to improve battery life.

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Competitive advantage

  • Cooperative state of charge balancing
  • Advanced state-of-charge, state-of-health estimation algorithms
  • Monotonic charging/discharging of battery packs
  • Temperature monitoring using limited number of temperature sensors
  • Reduction of battery current variation

Impact

  • Extended lifetime of batteries
  • More efficient and reliable battery products

Successful applications

  • Direct AC linked hybrid (battery/ultracapacitor) energy storage system with second order harmonic current reduction
  • Distributed cooperative balancing system for reconfigurable battery systems
  • Modular multilevel battery storage system with second order harmonic current reduction
  • Temperature monitoring system for ultracapacitor strings using limited number of temperature sensors

Capabilities and facilities

  • Power Electronics Laboratory
  • Arbin Instruments battery tester
  • Prototypes of hybrid (battery/ultracapacitor) energy storage system, reconfigurable (hybrid) energy storage system and temperature monitoring system for supercapacitors strings

Our partners

  • ABB