State-of-charge dynamic balancing strategy for distributed energy storage system in DC shipboard microgrid

Abstract

In this paper, a State-of-Charge (SoC) dynamic balancing control strategy considering system communication failure and energy storage capacity difference is proposed to reach the SoC balancing and proper current sharing for distributed energy storage units (DESUs) in DC shipboard microgrid. Firstly, the distributed equalization algorithm is applied in the DESU’s controller when the system communication is normal, each DESU exchanges their SoC information through low bandwidth communication (LBC) and dynamically adjusts the droop coefficient according to the change of their SoC, so as to realize the SoC dynamic balance of the energy storage system. Secondly, the DESU’s controller is switched to the decentralized equalization algorithm with communication failure, each DESU can reach SoC balancing and load current reasonable distribution only according to the local information. After that, a DC bus voltage compensation method is introduced to solve the problem of bus voltage deviation caused by the proposed SoC equalization. Finally, the simulation model comprised of three DESUs is implemented and the results show that the proposed control strategy can make each DESU reach SoC equilibrium state quickly and effectively reduce the bus voltage deviation under the normal and failure communication conditions.