The Monitoring and Management of an Operating Environment to Enhance the Safety of a Container-Type Energy Storage
Hye-Yeon Park1, Jin-Wook Lee1, Sung-Won Park2
1Department of Next Generation Smart Energy System Convergence, Gachon University, Seongnam-si 13120, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
The implementation of an energy storage system (ESS) as a container-type package is common due to its ease of installation, management, and safety. The control of the operating environment of an ESS mainly considers the temperature rise due to the heat generated through the battery operation. However, the relative humidity of the container often increases by over 75% in many cases because of the operation of the air conditioner which pursues temperature-first control. Humidity is a major factor which can cause safety issues such as fires owing to insulation breakdown caused by condensation. However, the importance of humidity control in ESS is underestimated compared to temperature control. In this study, temperature and humidity monitoring and management issues were addressed for a container-type ESS by building sensor-based monitoring and control systems. Furthermore, a rule-based air conditioner control algorithm was proposed for temperature and humidity management. A case study was conducted to compare the conventional and proposed control algorithms and verify the feasibility of the proposed algorithm. The results showed that the proposed algorithm reduced the average humidity by 11.4% compared to the value achieved with the existing temperature control method while also maintaining the temperature.
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