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Energy Storage Test Facility (ESTF)
October 19, 2011
David Rose, Michael Montoya and Summer Ferreira
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation,
a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s
National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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Energy Storage Test Facility
Motivation
• Unbiased, third party evaluation is a helpful step to bring new technologies to
market
• Thorough independent testing can provide data for evaluating business cases and
comparing technologies.
• The equipment needed to perform systems tests at the Megawatt (MW) level can
be prohibitively expensive
Some Barriers to Energy Storage Proliferation
• There is some uncertainty in the business cases for energy storage
• Companies see risk in designing and building energy storage systems so the
markets for them are hindered
• New technologies are held back form their potential applications
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Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP) (April 2010)
SNL Energy Storage System Analysis Laboratory Providing reliable, independent, third party testing and verification of
advanced energy technologies for cell to MW systems • Testing capabilities for supercapacitors, primary and secondary storage from cells to MW systems.
• Testing programs are designed to evaluate and validate battery performance.
System Testing
• New Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP) expands
testing capabilities to include megawatt (MW)
scale energy storage. This versatile facility is
capable of testing in several configurations for
many different applications.
• Temperature chambers for thermal control
Testing capabilities include:
Cell Testing
• 100 cell and battery testing channels:
– 72 V 1000 A Bitrode (2 Channels)
– 60 V 200 A Arbin (2 Channels)
– 36 V 100 A Bitrode (3 Channels)
– 36 V 25 A Bitrode (5 Channels)
– 10 V 10 A Arbin (48 Channels)
72 V 1000 A Bitrode (2 Parallel Channels)
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Energy Storage Test Pad (ESTP)
• Commissioned in April 2011
• Expands testing capabilities to include megawatt (MW) energy storage
• Testing at ESTP will increase industry confidence in large scale energy
storage systems
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ESTP
750 KVA Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) Under Test
• Validates and Demonstrates High Power Testing Equipment
• Helps Streamline Future Testing Activities
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Thermal Imaging
Charge Discharge
Baseline Battery Banks
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Operational Capabilities of the ESTP
The ESTP is a modular, dynamic testing facility. It can be
reconfigured to test different characteristics of an energy storage
system.
Three main configurations:
1. Frequency Regulation and Energy Shifting Applications
2. Islanded Load Following & Power Quality Applications
3. Grid Tied Reactive Power Support Applications
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Configuration One
Grid Tied Transformer
1 MW Energy Storage
Bidirectional Inverter
Controller
Testing: Frequency Regulation and Energy Shifting Applications
Sandia Side
Vendor Side
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Configuration Two
Load Bank1 MW Real
1 MVAR Reactive
1 MW Energy Storage
Bidirectional Inverter
Controller
Grid Tied Transformer
Testing: Grid Tied Reactive Power Support Applications
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Configuration Three
Load Bank1 MW Real
1 MVAR Reactive
1 MW Energy Storage
Bidirectional Inverter
Controller
Testing: Islanded Load Following & Power Quality Applications
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RedFlow Testing
RedFlow SDK
• 5kW, 10kWh Flow Battery
• Zinc-Bromine Chemistry
• To be tested in two phases
• Phase 1: Characterization
• Phase 2: Applications
System Development Kit (SDK)
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Summary of Present Systems Testing
• The ESTP is commissioned and ready to test MW
level energy storage systems in a variety of
applications
• The RedFlow system has arrived at SNL and will
begin testing shortly
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Future Work
• Support Third Party and Collaborative Testing of Energy Storage Systems
– Boeing Flywheel (in negotiations for May 2012)
• Automate Control and Telemetry of the Megawatt Loadbank at the ESTP
with a Process Logic Controller (PLC)
• Advancement of Sandia energy storage testing methodologies
Boeing Flywheel Loadbank at ESTP
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Advanced Testing Methodologies
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Dynamic Frequency - PJM (03/19/2011)
http://www.pjm.com/markets-and-operations/ancillary-services/mkt-based-regualtion.aspx
Picture by KEMA
ES meant for frequency
regulation are tested
using a very simplistic
charge discharge profiles.
When ES is used
for frequency
regulation they see
a complex,
stochastic profile
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Advanced Testing Methodologies
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– Thank you to Dr. Imre Gyuk and the ESS OE for funding energy
storage testing.
– Thank you to collaborating battery manufacturers
Summer Ferreira David Rose
[email protected] [email protected]
SNL Energy Storage System Analysis Laboratory
Contact Information
Acknowledgments
Providing reliable, independent, third party testing and verification of advanced energy technologies for cell to MW systems