An advanced battery energy storage control system for predictive maintenance

据估计，到2020年，即将到来的电动革命仅在英国就会产生4000吨电池垃圾(DFT 2014)。到2030年，在大多数工业化国家，能源储存和可再生能源预计将超过化石燃料发电，所有主要汽车制造商预计将主要生产电动或混合动力乘用车。在处置时，这些电池中的大多数至少还有70%的剩余寿命。为了应对气候危机，迫切需要提供负担得起的电池系统的解决方案和改进的电池废物处理方法。对此，ALP设计并测试了一种低成本、易于维护的锂离子电池系统，该系统采用非传统架构和创新的电子设备和传感器，使这些电池能够重复使用于分布式发电。该项目将专注于提高锂离子电池的利用率，由于开发了一种先进的系统来收集和分析数据以进行预测性维护(软件)，提高了电池的价值并在回收之前延长了使用时间。这一创新与我们现有的由旧电池组成的电池系统相结合，有可能降低80%的能量存储成本，同时回收否则被丢弃的废物。可负担性的提高可以极大地促进可再生资源丰富的非洲和东南亚发展中国家采用可再生能源，但成本是系统部署的一个重大障碍。

The upcoming electric revolution is estimated to generate 4,000 tonnes of battery waste in the UK alone by 2020 (DfT 2014). By 2030, energy storage coupled with renewables are expected to overtake fossil fuel based electricity generation in most industrialized countries and all major car manufacturers are expected to make mostly electric or hybrid passenger vehicles. At the point of disposal, most of these batteries have at least 70% remaining life. Solutions for affordable battery system and improved ways to deal with battery wastes are urgently needed to deal with climate crisis.In response, Alp has designed and tested a low-cost and easy to maintain li-ion battery system using unconventional architecture and innovative electronics and sensors, which allow these batteries to be reused for distributed generation.This project will focus on the improved utilization of Li-ion cells, increasing cell-value and extending use prior to recycle thanks to the development of an advanced system to collect and analyse the data for predictive maintenance (software).The combination of this innovation with our existing battery system made of used cells has the potential to reduce energy storage cost by 80% while recycling otherwise discarded waste. The increase affordability could greatly facilitate the adoption of renewable energy in developing countries in Africa and South East Asia where renewable resources are abundant, but cost is a significant barrier to system deployment.