Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to provide a kind of flow battery test platform, to solve the technical matters cannot testing the structural parameters of vanadium cell heap and the relation of electrolytic solution correlation parameter and vanadium cell performance.
For achieving the above object, the invention provides a kind of flow battery test platform, comprise test section, mesuring battary is arranged on test section; Automatically controlled district, comprise control system, power supply and load system and manual debugging panel, control system electrical connection or wireless connections power supply and load system, and control system electrical connection or wireless connections manual debugging panel, power supply is electrically connected with load system or wireless connections test section; Chemical system district, comprises electrolyte circulation system, and chemical system district is electrically connected or wireless connections with automatically controlled district, and electrolyte circulation system is connected by pipeline with test section.
Further, control system comprises man-machine interface, controller and testing apparatus, and controller is electrically connected or wireless connections with man-machine interface and testing apparatus respectively.
Further, the power supply in power supply and load system is direct supply.
Further, in power supply and load system, load is electronic load.
Further, electrolyte circulation system comprises electrolytic solution fluid reservoir, ebullator, measurement instrument, electrolytic solution fluid reservoir is connected with mesuring battary by pipeline, and ebullator and measurement instrument to be arranged on pipeline and to be connected with pipeline, and measurement instrument is electrically connected or wireless connections with automatically controlled district.
Further, chemical system district also comprises heat-exchange system, and heat-exchange system is connected between electrolytic solution fluid reservoir and mesuring battary.
Further, electrolytic solution fluid reservoir liquid level position is in vertical direction higher than the electrolyte inlet position of mesuring battary and ebullator.
Further, electrolyte circulation system also comprises discharge opeing pressure relief device, and discharge opeing pressure relief device is connected with pipeline.
Further, heating and attemperator is provided with in electrolytic solution fluid reservoir.
Further, electrolyte circulation system also comprises inert gas protection device, and the inert gas import of inert gas protection device is connected with electrolytic solution fluid reservoir respectively with inert gas outlet.
Further, set-up of control system has multiple reserved control interface be connected with external unit.
Further, electrolyte circulation system, heat-exchange system and power supply and load system are many covers in parallel.
The present invention has following beneficial effect:
By carrying out zoning design to hardware system by function, be convenient to carry out modular processing and installation, compact overall structure is carefully and neatly done, easy to operate, records the structural parameters of vanadium cell heap and the relation of electrolytic solution correlation parameter and vanadium cell performance more exactly.The design of chemical system and flow process fully ensure that accuracy, the stability of battery testing process to have wider working range.Control system adopts the modular design of layering, and dynamic conditioning speed is fast, and precision is high, good reliability, and security is high, and is convenient to expansion and the upgrading of carrying out system.
Except object described above, feature and advantage, the present invention also has other object, feature and advantage.Below with reference to figure, the present invention is further detailed explanation.
Embodiment
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, embodiments of the invention are described in detail, but the multitude of different ways that the present invention can be defined by the claims and cover is implemented.
See Fig. 2 to Fig. 7, according to flow battery test platform of the present invention, comprising: test section 10, mesuring battary 40 is arranged on test section 10; Automatically controlled district 20, comprise control system 21, power supply and load system 22 and manual debugging panel 23, control system 21 is electrically connected or wireless connections power supply and load system 22, and control system 21 is electrically connected or wireless connections manual debugging panel 23, and power supply is electrically connected or wireless connections test section 10 with load system 22; Chemical system district 30, comprises electrolyte circulation system, and chemical system district 30 is electrically connected or wireless connections with automatically controlled district 20, and electrolyte circulation system is connected by pipeline 50 with test section 10.
The distribution system access external power source of flow battery test platform, as civil power, through changing accordingly, can be the control system 21 of flow battery test platform and testing apparatus and providing direct current needed for it or alternating current.Whole test platform can be made inside and separate cabinet form for multiple separate space, and each subregion occupies a separate space, thus realizes the isolation between subregion; Meanwhile, each region is all reserved with necessary pipeline 50 and line interface, and making between different subregion can contact by chemical pipeline and cable or wireless connections etc. on practical function.After carrying out subregion, fluid reservoir 311 and chemical pipeline 50 etc. are arranged on relative closure and independently in space, the electrolytic solution of chemical pipeline system can be avoided to reveal and damage other equipment such as control element and testing crew, improve security; In the manufacture process of test platform, first can carry out the sharp processing of modules, then carry out integral installation, can working (machining) efficiency be improved like this, reduce manufacturing cost; After subregion, the equipment identical or close due to function is concentrated arrangement, thus the watch-dog such as instrument dial plate, control valve, shift knob, display and keyboard and mouse can be arranged on debugging panel comparatively compactly, and being convenient to testing crew carries out various operation, very convenient and practical; After subregion, the equipment that function is identical or close is concentrated to settle becomes the relatively independent module of structure, and be convenient to installation and removal, can realize the multiple test function for difference object to be measured by the flexible assembling of module, practicality is stronger.By carrying out zoning design to hardware system by function, be convenient to carry out modular processing and installation, compact overall structure is carefully and neatly done, easy to operate, can record the structural parameters of vanadium cell heap and the relation of electrolytic solution correlation parameter and vanadium cell performance more exactly.
See Fig. 3, control system 21 comprises man-machine interface 211, controller 212 and testing apparatus 213, and controller 212 is electrically connected with man-machine interface 211 and testing apparatus 213 respectively.Upper strata man-machine interface 211 is made up of the manual control equipment such as controller display and keyboard and mouse being positioned at automatically controlled district 20, middle level controller 212 is made up of controller and chromacoder, lower floor's testing apparatus 213 is made up of the various testing tool and electric control gear being placed in chemical system district 30, battery pile and power supply and load system 22 place, can realize efficient real-time communication between three-decker.Control system 21 mainly carries out omnibearing management to the charge-discharge test process of vanadium cell; realize the functions such as the real-time data acquisition of whole system, data analysis, process monitoring, alarm and protection, data storing; there is perfect self-detection and control function; best charge-discharge test pattern can be formulated according to the real needs of the characteristic of tested vanadium cell and user; dynamic conditioning speed is fast; precision is high, good reliability.
See Fig. 6, the power supply in power supply and load system 22 is direct supply.In power supply and load system 22, load is electronic load.Direct supply can be used for charging to tested vanadium cell, and electronic load is for simulating the user side of tested battery, and the positive and negative electrode, electrical converter etc. of it and battery pile form closed circuit jointly.Can by the real-time electricity consumption situation regulating electronic load to carry out pseudo-terminal user in test process, also come to match with user side demand by changing the parameters such as flow of electrolyte in battery pile side simultaneously, therefore, this test platform can the various different operating condition of simulated battery, synchronously obtain comprehensive battery performance achievement data by measurement and data acquisition in real time, and best charge-discharge test pattern can be formulated according to the real needs of the characteristic of tested battery and user.
See Fig. 4, electrolyte circulation system comprises electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311, ebullator 312, measurement instrument 313, electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311 is connected with mesuring battary 40 by pipeline 50, ebullator 312 and measurement instrument 313 to be arranged on pipeline 50 and to be connected with pipeline 50, and measurement instrument 313 is electrically connected or wireless connections with automatically controlled district 20.Electrolyte circulation system is made up of electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311, ebullator 312, valve 60, measurement instrument 313, heat-exchange system 33 etc.Electrolytic solution adds entrance 81 from electrolytic solution and adds, when testing, positive and negative electrode electrolytic solution circulates in pipeline 50, electrochemical reaction is there is when flowing through battery pile, electric current is formed in the closed circuit that electrode and electronic load are formed, and then realizing lasting charge and discharge process, measurement instrument 313 and data acquisition equipment will be measured and gather the data such as temperature, pressure, flow, liquid level, voltage, electric current in cell operation simultaneously.
See Fig. 4 and Fig. 5, electrolyte circulation system also comprises inert gas protection device, and the inert gas import 71 of inert gas protection device is connected with electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311 respectively with inert gas outlet 72.Inert gas protection device is mainly used in purging to discharge air to whole piping system before testing, and in battery pile operational process, maintain the inert gas space of fluid reservoir 311 ullage, comprises inert gas import 71 and inert gas outlet 72.Inert gas protection device of the present invention can avoid the oxidation by air of electrolytic solution active component, thus reduces the error of test.Total process protective before inert gas protection device can play test to the electrolytic solution in test platform, in test process and after test.Such as, before test, before add electrolytic solution in electrolytic solution fluid reservoir, corresponding valve on pipeline can be opened, inert gas purge is carried out to whole pipeline, with the air in discharge system.In test process, pass into the larger inert gas of density by fluid reservoir upper space, the density due to inert gas is significantly greater than the density of air, and inert gas will be deposited on liquid level and air will float, thus realizes the basic isolation of air and electrolytic solution.
See Fig. 4, chemical system district 30 also comprises heat-exchange system 33, and heat-exchange system 33 is connected between fluid reservoir 311 and mesuring battary 40.Heat-exchange system 33, for discharging the heat produced in cell operation, maintains the normal working temperature of electrolytic solution.Heat-exchange system 33 of the present invention can in time, the heat that produces of accurate quantitative analysis ground system of discharging, thus accurately regulate the working temperature of electrolytic solution, improve the accuracy of test.Heat-exchange system of the present invention is adjustable, namely can according to the heat production situation of battery pile, the heap outlet temperature of such as electrolytic solution, regulates heat-exchange device access in systems in which and disconnection neatly, and the size of heat exchange amount.By the heat that heat-exchange device is discharged, can directly be discharged in environment, also can carry out recycling.
See Fig. 4, electrolyte circulation system also comprises discharge opeing pressure relief device, and the pipeline 50 of the discharge opeing pressure relief device and electrolyte circulation system that comprise multiple electrolytic solution escape hole 82 is connected.Flow battery test platform of the present invention has discharge opeing pressure relief device, can be used for carrying out pressure release to pipe system or parts and discharging raffinate, and when avoiding detaching equipment or pipeline, raffinate ejection or flow out damages personnel and facility.In addition, test platform of the present invention takes the measure of chemical system Secure isolation, be arranged in relative closure by the chemical industry such as fluid reservoir and pipeline relevant apparatus features and independently in space, the electrolytic solution of chemical system can be avoided to reveal testing crew and other facilities are damaged.The design of these two aspects makes test platform of the present invention have good security.
See Fig. 4, in electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311, be provided with heating and attemperator 311a.Fluid reservoir 311 place, be provided with heating and attemperator 311a, in low temperature environment, can before testing to electrolyte preheating with the startup of accelerated test system, also can the non-test stage in conjunction with Automatic Control Component to electrolytic solution play heating and insulation effect.Heating arrangement of the present invention specifically comprises heat tape, heat exchanger etc., and attemperator is specifically included in coated thermal insulation material such as facility exterior such as fluid reservoir 311 grade, outside fluid reservoir, arranges the forms such as stay-warm case.
See Fig. 5, electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311 liquid level position is in vertical direction higher than the electrolyte inlet position of mesuring battary 40 and ebullator 312.Both be convenient to pump priming like this, obviously can reduce again and carry secretly to the bubble in battery pile with electrolytic solution, and the test error caused by bubble in battery pile.If increase defoaming device in systems in which, then the electrolyte inlet position of electrolytic solution fluid reservoir 311 liquid level position in vertical direction and mesuring battary 40 and ebullator 312 can freely be arranged, but consider economic cause, directly utilize physical principle head it off, economical simple.In test process, electrolytic solution flows to ebullator 312 downwards by fluid reservoir 311 bottom liquid outlet, the bubble now carried secretly in electrolytic solution constantly can move upward along pipeline because density is relatively little under buoyancy, finally there is quite a few bubble can float up to the gas space on fluid reservoir 311 top, so just significantly can reduce and be carried secretly to the bubble in battery pile, and then reduce bubble to the impact of electrochemical reaction in battery pile.Under the prerequisite of not other partial design of influential system and installation, fluid reservoir 311 is designed to cross-sectional area is less, vertical height is larger " elongated " shape and it is vertically installed in system, fluid reservoir 311 liquid level and the difference in height between ebullator 312 and battery pile can be increased, and then be conducive to the bubble coalescence phenomenon improved in battery pile.Electrolytic solution flows through fluid reservoir 311 successively, ebullator 312 and battery pile, in vertical direction, the liquid level position of fluid reservoir 311 is higher than ebullator 312 center place horizontal level and battery pile inlet place horizontal level, corresponding difference in height is respectively h1 and h2, in test process, when electrolytic solution flows in pipeline as shown in the figure, the bubble carried secretly in electrolytic solution can move upward along pipeline because density is relatively little under buoyancy, h1 is larger, and bubble has the more sufficient time to move in fluid reservoir 311 even more than its liquid level, namely continue with electrolyte flow fewer to the bubble of battery pile, with should h2 more hour, then bubble will be less along the probability that pipeline floats up in battery pile.The design of such locus, can greatly reduce the bubble assembled in battery pile, thus improves the flowing of electrolytic solution in battery pile and electrochemical reaction situation.
See Fig. 6, electrolyte circulation system, heat-exchange system 33 and power supply and load system 22 are many covers in parallel.Common control system 21 and manual debugging panel 23, can carry out performance test to the battery of multiple different capacity simultaneously.The same item of hardware system unit of several specifications is devised as fluid reservoir 311, ebullator 312, pipeline 50, power supply and load system 22 etc. in test platform of the present invention, each base part is carried out coupling and integrated according to specifications parameter, makes the range etc. of the electrical specifications of the through-current capacity of pipeline 50, power supply and load system 22, system heat exchange amount, instrument can meet operation and the performance test requirement of the different capacity vanadium cell within the scope of 50W ~ 20kW.Meanwhile, control system of the present invention comprises multiple extendible control program module and control port.For the test request of different capacity battery pile, control system 21 can pass through working procedure module and the isoparametric setting of control port, and then realization runs mesuring battary 40 and the accuracy controlling of test process.In addition, the hardware environment of test platform of the present invention and software environment also can meet multiple battery pile and run simultaneously and test.Therefore, flow battery test platform of the present invention can be tested the performance of different capacity vanadium cell simultaneously.
Control system 21 is provided with multiple reserved control interface be connected with external unit, and external unit comprises measurement instrument, power supply and load system 22, peripheral control unit etc., and adopts modularization programming, is convenient to expansion and the upgrading of carrying out system.
See Fig. 7, the concrete workflow of flow battery test platform of the present invention and major function are described.Test platform mainly comprises test section 10, automatically controlled district 20 and chemical system district 30, concrete configuration controller, a manual debugging panel, the power supply of 3 different sizes and load system 22, corresponding 50W respectively, 3kW, 3 all kinds of chemical industry associated components of 20kW battery pile service requirement (comprise the fluid reservoir 311 of different capabilities, the pipeline 50 of different flow, the ebullator 312 of different flow and pressure head, the instrument etc. of the power supply of different parameters and load system 22 and different range), the comprehensive nargin coefficient of system is 1.2, therefore this test macro can meet 40W ~ 60W, 2.4kW ~ 3.6kW, the operation of the vanadium cell heap in 16kW ~ 24kW power bracket and test request.
Before test, first according to parameters such as the design powers of tested battery, analyze the requirement to aspects such as fluid reservoir 311 capacity, flow of electrolyte, ebullator 312 performance parameter, heat exchange amounts in this cell operation, and carry out the connection of pipeline 50 and system according to the fluid reservoir 311 of the method choice suitable parameter shown in Fig. 6, ebullator 312, instrument, the system unit such as power supply and load system 22.
After connecting line; then whole pipeline that inert gas shielding flow process flows to circulate electrolyte is started and relevant device purges; idiographic flow is: all valves in open system except 619,620,623,624; adjust flux makes inert gas flow fully in pipeline; to drain air wherein; sweeping process carries out complete, closes all valves in time.
Next for electrolytic solution feeds in raw material flow process, need before reinforced to ensure that the inert gas terminal valve 621,622,623,624 of fluid reservoir is all in opening, make to maintain certain pressure and atmosphere of inert gases in tank simultaneously, then open reinforced valve 619,620 and add appropriate electrolytic solution in fluid reservoir, the reinforced complete valve 619,620 that will feed in raw material is closed.
When testing, valve 601 to valve 608 is all in opening, simultaneously two groups of valves 609,610 at heat-exchange system 33 place and valve 611,612 have at least one group to be opening, electrolytic solution circulates along pipeline under the effect of ebullator, electrochemical reaction is there is when flowing through battery pile, electric current is formed, namely lasting charge or discharge process in the closed circuit simultaneously formed at electrode and power supply and load system.In cell operation, the battery operation data such as flow of electrolyte, battery pile out temperature, pressure synchronously can be measured, gather and be recorded to measurement instrument 313, and the electric parameter such as the open-circuit voltage of battery pile, electric current; Supervisory system and tester can send control signal or manually regulate relevant parameters simultaneously, and the response data of register system, sufficient high precision test figure can be obtained by whole test process, just can be made the performance index of tested battery by data analysis and comparatively comprehensively evaluating.
Heat-exchange system in test platform, its mode of operation can carry out automatic or manual adjustment: the first situation, if the design power of tested battery pile is less or the lower system radiating of environment temperature is abundant, in estimation test process, electrolytic solution is when can not significantly heat up, and can the opening and closing of control valve 609,610,611,612 manually or automatically make heat-exchange system 33 be in off-state; Second case, judges whether according to practical operation situation such as the heap outlet temperatures of electrolytic solution the size needing heat exchange and heat exchange amount, carries out automatic or manual adjustment by the opening and closing of respective valves in test process.Such as, when intensification acquires a certain degree, the opening and closing of control valve 609,610,611,612 makes heat-exchange system 33 start working manually or automatically, and regulates and controls according to intensification degree exchange heat.
When testing process terminates to need detaching pipelines; primer liner discharge opeing pressure release flow process: as shown in Figure 4; after shutdown; valve 601,602,603,604 is made to be in closed condition; valve 613 to 618 is all in opening simultaneously; electrolytic solution residual in other pipeline now except fluid reservoir 311 will be collected mouth from discharge opeing and flow out under the effect of internal pressure and gravity, and the electrolytic solution of collection can row relax again.Discharge opeing pressure release carries out pipeline dismounting later again, and the expulsion events of electrolytic solution would not occur, and has ensured the safety of personnel and facility.In addition, when the needs that break down of individual plants in test process carry out dismantling and overhauling, or when needing to change tested battery pile, the pipeline that the opening and closing of respective valves can be regulated to treat near detaching equipment carries out discharge opeing pressure release, and do not need the electrolytic solution that drains in whole system, operation of being more convenient for like this.When test platform needs to stop transport the long period, for safety, preferably keeping is carried out in the electrolytic solution discharge in whole system after shutting down.
In test platform described in this embodiment, performance test can be carried out to the vanadium cell heap of 3 different capacities simultaneously.Each base part in system is undertaken mating by specification and is combined into 3 test cells, corresponding control port and passage in control system are set simultaneously, call corresponding program module, just can carry out above-described test process to 3 vanadium cells of design power respectively within the scope of 40W ~ 60W, 2.4kW ~ 3.6kW, 16kW ~ 24kW simultaneously.
The present invention can also carry out performance test to vanadium cell system: comprise flow of electrolyte, temperature, pressure, voltage, electric current etc.; By flow battery test platform of the present invention for vanadium cell system access to be measured, first start the control system of test platform and select corresponding pattern, then starting mesuring battary system and start test.In mesuring battary system operation, control system by measurement, gather various desired data, correlation parameter to be regulated, and corresponding data after the adjustment of register system simultaneously, the comprehensive performance data of tested vanadium cell system can be obtained by test.
The present invention can also demarcate or performance test vanadium cell system unit: system unit to be measured can be ebullator, flowmeter, heat-exchanger rig, power supply and load etc.By the corresponding circulate electrolyte loop of UUT flow battery test platform of the present invention as ebullator accesses.Start the control system of test platform and select corresponding pattern, then starting electrolyte circulation system, in operational process, the service data such as flow, pressure head, power consumption of tested ebullator be measured and be gathered to control system will; Correlation parameter is regulated simultaneously, and the corresponding data of register system.The performance data of unit under test can be obtained by test or it is demarcated.
As can be seen from the above description, the above embodiments of the present invention achieve following technique effect:
Hardware system carries out zoning design by function, is convenient to carry out modular processing and installation, and compact overall structure is carefully and neatly done, easy to operate.The design of chemical system and flow process fully ensure that accuracy, the stability of battery testing process, there is wider working range, possess the diversified performance test function for monocell, vanadium cell heap, vanadium cell system and system unit etc., can measured power wider range, practical; Reduce systematic error by inert gas shielding, the measure such as heat exchange, fluid reservoir insulation in time, ensure reliability and the accuracy of test result; Carry out concentrating and close setting to electrolytic solution flow passage components, and the setting of discharge opeing pressure release flow process, possess good security; Control system adopts the modular design of layering, and dynamic conditioning speed is fast, and precision is high, good reliability, and security is high, and is convenient to expansion and the upgrading of carrying out system.
The foregoing is only the preferred embodiments of the present invention, be not limited to the present invention, for a person skilled in the art, the present invention can have various modifications and variations.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any amendment done, equivalent replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.