A Novel Power Flow Control Strategy for Heterogeneous Battery Energy Storage Systems Based on Prognostic Algorithms for Batteries

This work focuses on a novel power flow control strategy (PFCS) for a heterogeneous multiple battery energy storage system (BESS) based on prognostic algorithms for batteries and the selection of proper prediction horizons for such algorithms. Unlike existing PFCS, the proposed control strategy copes with the transition between power balancing and state of charge balancing regardless of the scenario, the system configuration or the objective of the operator due to the adaptability of the prediction horizons. MATLAB/Simulink is used to conduct a simulation study based on a heterogeneous multiple BESS. Therefore, the novel PFCS is implemented in a validated simulation model to prove its advantages in terms of the performance and efficiency target indicator in different scenarios and system configurations. The results show, the performance can be enhanced regardless of the scenario or system configuration and the efficiency is at least as high as for the reference PFCS.