Design and investigation of a modular battery simulator system

Andreas Thanheiser, Wolfgang Meyer, Dominik Buecherl, Hans Georg Herzog

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Abstract

The topic of vehicular hybrid drive systems gains more and more in importance because of the increasing scarcity of fossil energy sources. A major focus of development in this area is improving the integration of electrical energy storage systems in the existing powertrain. The necessary developments require complex test benches to evaluate the results. To decrease the costs for testing large battery systems, the electric behavior of the storage is emulated by a power electronic circuit. Thus, the influence of different energy storage systems on the real testbench can be verified. This work presents and analyses an approach on simulating an electrochemical energy storage, which avoids the disadvantages of available systems on the market, such as high costs, large space consumption and low flexibility in power range. In addition to the modeling of the storage, it includes a draft of a multi-phase dc/dcconverter which acts as a link between the simulation model and the real test environment. The multiphase configuration of the dc/dc-converter requires a special control concept which was developed and successfully verified on an experimental setup consisting of three parallel phases. Furthermore, the multiphase approach offers the possibility of a modular system design to provide the most flexible simulation platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09
Pages1525-1528
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09 - Dearborn, MI, United States
Duration: 7 Sep 200910 Sep 2009

Publication series

Name5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09

Conference

Conference5th IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, VPPC '09
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDearborn, MI
Period7/09/0910/09/09

Keywords

  • Battery system
  • Decentralized control
  • Modeling
  • Multiphase dc/dc-converter
  • Simulation

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