Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery

The long-term operation of the vanadium redox flow battery is accompanied by ion diffusion across the separator and side reactions, which can lead to electrolyte imbalance and capacity loss. The accurate online monitoring of capacity loss is therefore valuable for the reliable and efficient operatio...

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Main Authors: Wei, Zhongbao, Bhattarai, Arjun, Zou, Changfu, Meng, Shujuan, Lim, Tuti Mariana, Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria
Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141210
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author Wei, Zhongbao
Bhattarai, Arjun
Zou, Changfu
Meng, Shujuan
Lim, Tuti Mariana
Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria
author2 School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
author_facet School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wei, Zhongbao
Bhattarai, Arjun
Zou, Changfu
Meng, Shujuan
Lim, Tuti Mariana
Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria
author_sort Wei, Zhongbao
collection NTU
description The long-term operation of the vanadium redox flow battery is accompanied by ion diffusion across the separator and side reactions, which can lead to electrolyte imbalance and capacity loss. The accurate online monitoring of capacity loss is therefore valuable for the reliable and efficient operation of vanadium redox flow battery system. In this paper, a model-based online monitoring method is proposed to detect capacity loss in the vanadium redox flow battery in real time. A first-order equivalent circuit model is built to capture the dynamics of the vanadium redox flow battery. The model parameters are online identified from the onboard measureable signals with the recursive least squares, in seeking to keep a high modeling accuracy and robustness under a wide range of working scenarios. Based on the online adapted model, an observer is designed with the extended Kalman Filter to keep tracking both the capacity and state of charge of the battery in real time. Experiments are conducted on a lab-scale battery system. Results suggest that the online adapted model is able to simulate the battery behavior with high accuracy. The capacity loss as well as the state of charge can be estimated accurately in a real-time manner.
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spelling ntu-10356/1412102021-01-14T07:18:44Z Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery Wei, Zhongbao Bhattarai, Arjun Zou, Changfu Meng, Shujuan Lim, Tuti Mariana Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N) Engineering::Civil engineering Battery Modeling Parameter Identification The long-term operation of the vanadium redox flow battery is accompanied by ion diffusion across the separator and side reactions, which can lead to electrolyte imbalance and capacity loss. The accurate online monitoring of capacity loss is therefore valuable for the reliable and efficient operation of vanadium redox flow battery system. In this paper, a model-based online monitoring method is proposed to detect capacity loss in the vanadium redox flow battery in real time. A first-order equivalent circuit model is built to capture the dynamics of the vanadium redox flow battery. The model parameters are online identified from the onboard measureable signals with the recursive least squares, in seeking to keep a high modeling accuracy and robustness under a wide range of working scenarios. Based on the online adapted model, an observer is designed with the extended Kalman Filter to keep tracking both the capacity and state of charge of the battery in real time. Experiments are conducted on a lab-scale battery system. Results suggest that the online adapted model is able to simulate the battery behavior with high accuracy. The capacity loss as well as the state of charge can be estimated accurately in a real-time manner. 2020-06-05T02:22:08Z 2020-06-05T02:22:08Z 2018 Journal Article Wei, Z., Bhattarai, A., Zou, C., Meng, S., Lim, T. M., & Skyllas-Kazacos, M. (2018). Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery. Journal of Power Sources, 390, 261-269. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.04.063 0378-7753 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141210 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.04.063 2-s2.0-85046022142 390 261 269 en Journal of Power Sources © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
spellingShingle Engineering::Civil engineering
Battery Modeling
Parameter Identification
Wei, Zhongbao
Bhattarai, Arjun
Zou, Changfu
Meng, Shujuan
Lim, Tuti Mariana
Skyllas-Kazacos, Maria
Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title_full Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title_fullStr Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title_full_unstemmed Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title_short Real-time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
title_sort real time monitoring of capacity loss for vanadium redox flow battery
topic Engineering::Civil engineering
Battery Modeling
Parameter Identification
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141210
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