Laboratory Validation of Battery Energy Storage System as STATCOM (BESS-STATCOM) for Critical Induction Motor Stabilization
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Abstract
Stalling of critical induction motors in process control industries can bring significant financial losses to industrial facilities. Static Synchronous (STATCOMs) and Static Var Compensators (SVCs) are typically used for stabilizing such motors. With the tremendous growth of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) it is quite likely that BESS will be installed in distribution networks where such critical motors are connected. This paper presents the laboratory implementation of a new cost-effective control of a BESS as STATCOM, termed BESS-STATCOM, to stabilize a critical induction motor which may be connected either locally at BESS terminals or remotely from it in a distribution network. The hardware results of the performance of BESS-STATCOM are compared with PSCAD software simulation results of the same system. Motor stabilization is successfully demonstrated during both charging and discharging modes of BESS operation. The BESS-STATCOM can provide dynamic voltage control utilizing the entire BESS converter capacity for reactive power modulation. The proposed technique opens a new revenue making opportunity for BESS to provide a 24/7 dedicated critical motor stabilization service through reactive power control while performing its normal active power based ancillary services. The proposed BESS-STATCOM control will soon be field demonstrated in the network of Elexicon Energy, Canada.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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