Systems and Method for Developing and Testing Hybrid Energy Storage Devices

• Main Author: HOFMANN MARKUS
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.06.2015
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TOTRANSPORTATION; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MEASURING; MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; REGULATING; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A system for developing, optimizing, and testing hybrid energy storage devices includes a test arrangement and a simulation device. The test arrangement has an emulator of a hybrid energy storage device connected to a driving operation emulator for receiving and outputting energy. The emulator includes a first energy storage device emulator, a second energy storage device emulator, and a power electronics unit controlling a supply of energy into the first and second energy storage device emulator and controlling a draw of energy from the first and second energy storage device emulator. The energy storage device emulators emulate different classes of energy storage devices and different operating states of an energy storage device by varying energy storage device parameters. A control device controls the power electronics unit. The simulation device simulates the operation of hybrid energy storage devices for different configurations of the control device and different energy storage device parameters.