Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2023, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (4): 1158-1167.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2022.0707

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Optimal configuration of liquid flow battery energy storage in photovoltaic system

Xiaoyu GUO(), Hao YU, Xin ZHENG, Yujia LIU, Yuanjie ZUO, Miaomiao ZHANG   

  1. Beijing Herui Energy Storage Technology Co. , Ltd, Beijing 102209, China
  • Received:2022-11-30 Revised:2022-12-30 Online:2023-04-05 Published:2023-05-08
  • Contact: Xiaoyu GUO E-mail:guoxiaoyu@spic.com.cn

Abstract:

A liquid flow battery has low long-term energy storage cost and high system security, and thus, it is suitable for large-scale long-term energy storage application scenarios. The intermittency and fluctuation of the new energy power generation system can be suppressed through reasonable planning and configuration of the liquid flow battery system; this is of great significance for ensuring the safe and stable operation of the power grid. At present, there is a lack of research on the new energy system and the optimization configuration method of liquid flow battery based on their technical characteristics and operation characteristics. With the rapid transformation of energy in China, giving importance to the technology and operation characteristics of liquid flow battery and optimizing their capacity in the new energy system play a positive role in establishing a new power system. Thus, this paper examines the local area network (LAN) of photovoltaic and liquid flow battery joint power generation and proposes the optimal configuration method of liquid flow battery energy storage for photovoltaic system. The initial investment, full life operation, maintenance costs of each module system in the liquid flow battery system were assessed through in-depth research and analysis of operation characteristics, based on the characteristics of liquid flow battery system that power and capacity modules are separated. The power and capacity ratio of large-scale liquid flow battery system were optimized. Our results show that the operation strategy of the LAN system for photovoltaic and liquid flow battery combined power generation is optimized. While ensuring the stable operation of the LAN power supply, the optimal configuration scheme of the liquid flow battery was obtained by taking the minimum sum of the initial investment of the liquid flow battery system and the full life operation cost as the objective function. This shows that the proposed method can obtain the optimal solution of the liquid flow battery energy storage configuration of the photovoltaic system, and the sum of the initial investment and the life-cycle operation and maintenance cost is the minimum. The most economical megawatt liquid flow battery module design is when the power and capacity configuration of large-scale liquid flow battery system is 1 MW/8 MWh, and the LCOE for 25 years of operation is 0.292 yuan/kWh. The objective function of energy storage optimization configuration in the LAN applied in this paper achieves the optimal solution when the energy storage configuration is 20 MW/160 MWh.

Key words: photovoltaic energy storage system, liquid flow battery, energy storage configuration, new energy LAN

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