METHOD FOR MEASURING AC IMPEDANCE OF BATTERY IN COMPOSITE POWER SUPPLY POWER SYSTEM

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for measuring the AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system, comprising the following steps: determining the AC disturbance signal amplitude, operating the DC/DC voltage converter to generate the AC disturbance signal, collecting the output signals of the fuel cell and the lithium battery, calculating the output power of the fuel cell and the lithium battery; calculating the demand power of the load, and when the demand power is stable, calculating the impedance of the lithium battery and the fuel cell separately, otherwise, only the impedance of the fuel cell is calculated.

Claims

1. A method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system, wherein the impedance of a fuel cell and a lithium battery is measured based on an AC impedance measurement device, comprising the steps of: S1: determining the amplitude of the AC disturbance signal, the control system controlling the DC/DC voltage converter to work to generate the AC disturbance signal, the output signal of the fuel cell changing, and the output signal of the lithium battery changing accordingly, said output signal including the current signal and the voltage signal; S2: real-time acquisition of the current signal and voltage signal of the fuel cell, real-time acquisition of the current signal and voltage signal of the lithium battery, and calculation of the real-time output power of the fuel cell and the lithium battery, respectively; S3: calculating the real-time demand power P.sub.loaddemand of the load according to the real-time output power of the fuel cell and the lithium battery, and calculating the real-time change rate of P.sub.loaddemand, and if the real-time change rate of P.sub.loaddemand is less than the preset stability threshold, executing step S4, otherwise, calculating the impedance of the fuel cell, and waiting for the preset time length T1 before executing step S5; S4: calculating the impedance of the fuel cell and the lithium battery respectively, waiting for the preset time length T2 and then executing step S5; S5: the control system obtains the impedance measurement control signal, and if the control signal is an end signal, ends the impedance measurement, otherwise, executes step S1.

2. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, wherein in said step S1, the magnitude size of the AC disturbance signal is determined according to the disturbance signal magnitude of the fuel cell and the disturbance signal magnitude of the lithium battery, comprising the steps of: S11: determining the amplitude range [λ1, λ2] of the disturbance signal of the fuel cell based on the impedance measurement accuracy demand and the DC output signal of the fuel cell; S12: determining the amplitude range [λ3, λ4] of the lithium battery perturbation signal based on the impedance measurement accuracy demand and the DC output signal of the lithium battery; S13: If there is no intersection between [λ1, λ2] and [λ3, λ4], the DC/DC voltage converter works to adjust the DC output signals of the fuel cell and the lithium battery, and repeat step S11, otherwise, the value is selected from the intersection of [λ1, λ2] and [λ3, λ4] as the amplitude of the AC perturbation signal.

3. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 2, wherein in step S11, the amplitude range [λ1, λ2] of the fuel cell perturbation signal is [a*2%, a*10%], wherein ‘a’ represents the DC output signal of the fuel cell.

4. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 2, wherein in step S12, the amplitude range [λ3, λ4] of the lithium battery perturbation signal is [b*2%, b*10%], wherein represents the DC output signal of the lithium battery.

5. The method for measuring AC impedance a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, wherein in said step S2, the real-time acquisition of the current signal and the voltage signal of the fuel cell is specifically: the current signal I.sub.fuelcell and the overall voltage signal V.sub.fuelcell of the fuel cell are acquired, the voltage signal V.sub.fuelcellp of the single cell is measured, 0<p<n+1, n is the number of single fuel cell; The current signal and voltage signal of the lithium battery are collected in real time as follows: the current signal I.sub.lithium and the overall voltage signal V.sub.lithium of the lithium battery are collected, and the voltage signal V.sub.lithiumq of the single lithium battery is collected, 0<q<m+1, m being the number of single cells in the lithium battery.

6. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, wherein in said step S3, the real-time demand power P.sub.loaddemand is calculated by the formula:
P.sub.loaddemand=P.sub.DCDC-out+P.sub.lithiumbattery
P.sub.DCDC-out=ηP.sub.DCDC-in
P.sub.DCDC-in=P.sub.fuelcell where P.sub.loaddemand is the real-time demand power of the load, P.sub.DCDC-out is the output power of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.lithiumbattery is the output power of the lithium battery cell, η is the conversion efficiency of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.DCDC-in is the input power of the DC/DC voltage converter, and P.sub.fuelcell is the output power of the fuel cell.

7. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, characterized in that in said step S3, the pre-set stability threshold is 1%.

8. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 5, wherein in said step S3 and step S4, the formulae for calculating the fuel cell impedance, the single fuel cell impedance to be measured, the lithium battery impedance and the single lithium battery impedance to be measured are specifically: $Z\left(\omega \right)=\frac{V_A}{I_A}{e}^{j\left({\theta }_1-{\theta }_2\right)}$ $V\left(t\right)=V_D+V_A\sin \left(\omega t+{\theta }_1\right)$ $I\left(t\right)=I_D+I_A\sin \left(\omega t+{\theta }_2\right)$ wherein, Z(ω) represents the impedance, V(t) represents the collected voltage signal, V.sub.D represents the DC voltage signal in the collected voltage signal, V.sub.A represents the AC voltage signal in the collected voltage signal, I(t) represents the collected current signal, I.sub.D represents the DC current signal in the collected voltage signal, I.sub.A represents the AC current signal in the collected voltage signal, co represents the frequency of the AC signal, t represents the time, and θ.sub.1 and θ.sub.2 represent the initial phase of the AC voltage signal and the AC current signal, respectively.

9. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, wherein in said step S3, the pre-set time length T1 is 2 seconds.

10. The method for measuring AC impedance of a battery in a composite power supply power system according to claim 1, wherein in said step S4, the pre-set time length T2 is 5 seconds.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0032] FIG. 1 shows the flow chart of the present invention.

[0033] FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the composite power supply power system in the embodiment.

[0034] FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the AC impedance measurement device in the embodiment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DISCLOSED EMBODIMENTS

[0035] The present invention is described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. This embodiment is implemented with the technical solution of the present invention in mind, and the detailed implementation and specific operation process are given, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments.

[0036] The structure of a composite power supply power system for a new energy-powered vehicle is shown in FIG. 2, including a fuel cell and a lithium battery, during the operation of the vehicle, the load demand power will change, and the fuel cell and lithium battery will then adjust the output current, taking into account the cost and volume issues, only an AC impedance measurement device is installed, and the AC impedance of the fuel cell is measured using this device, making it difficult to integrate Identify the internal state of the composite power system. In the prior art, the impedance of the fuel cell is calculated directly by applying an AC disturbance signal to the fuel cell through a DC/DC voltage converter, without considering the state of the lithium battery.

[0037] After the inventor's analysis and research, it is found that when the vehicle is running stably, the demand power of the load is unchanged, at this time, the AC disturbance signal is applied to the fuel cell through the DC/DC voltage converter, the output signal of the fuel cell is the superposition of DC signal and sinusoidal alternating signal, and the power changes, in order to keep the power input to the load unchanged, the lithium battery also adjusts its power and has the same fluctuation form as the fuel cell power, and there is a linear relationship between the output power of the lithium battery and the output power of the fuel cell, as follows:

[00002]$P_{\mathrm{loaddemand}}=P_{DCDC-out}+P_{\mathrm{lithiumbattery}}=\eta P_{DCDC-in}+P_{\mathrm{lithiumbattery}}=\eta P_{\mathrm{fuelcell}}+P_{\mathrm{lithiumbattery}}$

[0038] Where P.sub.loaddemand is the real-time demand power of the load, P.sub.DCDC-out is the output power of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.lithiumbattery is the output power of the lithium battery cell, η is the conversion efficiency of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.DCDC-in is the input power of the DC/DC voltage converter, and P.sub.fuelcell is the output power of the fuel cell.

[0039] Because the lithium battery under small fluctuations can be considered as a linear system, when the adjustment process is over, the output signal of the lithium battery is also adjusted to the superposition of the DC signal and the sinusoidal alternating signal, and the impedance of the lithium battery can be calculated based on this sinusoidal alternating signal.

[0040] The present invention adds the step of detecting whether the load demand power is stable to the existing control method, and when the load demand power is stable, the vehicle's own AC impedance measuring device can be used to measure the impedance of both the fuel cell and the lithium battery, which reduces the difficulty of identifying the internal state of the composite power supply power system, greatly reduces the cost, and can integrate the identification of the internal state of the composite power supply system.

[0041] A method for AC impedance measurement of a battery in a composite power supply power system, based on the AC impedance measurement device to measure the impedance of a fuel cell and a lithium battery, as shown in FIG. 1, comprising the following steps:

[0042] A method for AC impedance measurement of a battery in a composite power supply power system, measuring the impedance of a fuel cell and a lithium battery based on an AC impedance measurement device, comprising the following steps:

[0043] S1: determining the amplitude of the AC disturbance signal, the control system controls the DC/DC voltage converter to work to generate the AC disturbance signal, the output signal of the fuel cell is changed, and the output signal of the lithium battery is changed accordingly, said output signal includes a current signal and a voltage signal.

[0044] The magnitude size of the AC disturbance signal is determined according to the disturbance signal magnitude of the fuel cell and the disturbance signal magnitude of the lithium battery, comprising the steps of:

[0045] S11: determining the amplitude range [λ1, λ2] of the fuel cell perturbation signal based on the impedance measurement accuracy demand and the DC output signal of the fuel cell.

[0046] S12: determining the amplitude range [λ3, λ4] of the lithium battery perturbation signal based on the impedance measurement accuracy demand and the DC output signal of the lithium battery.

[0047] S13: If there is no intersection between [λ1, λ2] and [λ3, λ4], the DC/DC voltage converter operates to adjust the DC output signals of the fuel cell and the lithium battery and repeat step S11, otherwise, a value is selected from the intersection of [λ1, λ2] and [λ3, λ4] as the amplitude of the AC perturbation signal.

[0048] In this embodiment, the amplitude range of the fuel cell perturbation signal is [a*2%, a*10%], wherein, a represents the DC output signal of the fuel cell; the amplitude range of the lithium battery perturbation signal is [b*2%, b*10%], wherein, b represents the DC output signal of the lithium battery; if the perturbation signal amplitude is too large, it will lead to instability of the battery system and meaningless measurement results, and if the perturbation signal A small amplitude will lead to a small signal-to-noise ratio and poor measurement accuracy. After comprehensive consideration, the output signal of the fuel cell and the output signal of the lithium battery are adjusted to approximate values by the DC/DC voltage converter, and the perturbation signal amplitude is selected in the overlapping part of [λ1, λ2] and [λ3, λ4]. In other implementations, the amplitude range of the perturbation signal can be adjusted according to the accuracy needs.

[0049] S2: The current signal and voltage signal of the fuel cell are collected in real time, and the current signal and voltage signal of the lithium battery are collected in real time, and the real time output power of the fuel cell and the lithium battery are calculated respectively.

[0050] Real-time acquisition of the current signal and voltage signal of the fuel cell is specifically: acquisition of the current signal I.sub.fuelcell and the overall voltage signal V.sub.fuelcell of the fuel cell, acquisition of the voltage signal V.sub.fuelcellp of the single fuel cell to be measured, 0<p<n+1, n is the number of single cells in the fuel cell; real-time acquisition of the current signal and voltage signal of the lithium battery is specifically: acquisition of the current signal I.sub.lithium and the overall voltage signal V.sub.lithium of the lithium battery, acquisition of the voltage signal V.sub.lithiumq of the single lithium battery to be measured, 0<q<m+1, m is the number of single cells in the lithium battery.

[0051] As shown in FIG. 3, both the fuel cell and the lithium battery include multiple single cells, and it is necessary to calculate not only the impedance of the whole cell, but also the impedance of the single cell to identify the state of the single cell.

[0052] The collected current signal of the fuel cell I.sub.fuelcell and the current of each individual fuel cell are the same and do not need to be collected repeatedly. A voltage measurement circuit is provided on each individual fuel cell, and a voltage signal selector circuit is used to select the voltage signal of the individual fuel cell/whole fuel cell that needs to be measured. The collected signal is conditioned and amplified by the signal conditioning and amplification circuit, and then the voltage and current signal is converted from analog to digital by the analog-to-digital conversion circuit and input to the digital signal processor.

[0053] The collected current signal of the lithium battery I.sub.lithium and the current of each single lithium battery is the same, there is no need to collect multiple times, each single lithium battery is equipped with a voltage measurement circuit, and the voltage signal selection circuit is used to select the voltage signal of the single lithium battery/overall lithium battery that needs to be measured. The collected signal is conditioned and amplified by the signal conditioning and amplification circuit, and then the voltage and current signal is converted from analog to digital by the analog-to-digital conversion circuit and input to the digital signal processor.

[0054] S3: calculate the real-time demand power P.sub.loaddemand of the load based on the real-time output power of the fuel cell and the lithium battery, and calculate the real-time change rate of P.sub.loaddemand, and if the real-time change rate of P.sub.loaddemand is less than the preset stability threshold, then execute step S4, otherwise, calculate the impedance of the fuel cell, and wait for the preset time length T1 before executing step S5.

[0055] The structure of the AC impedance measurement device is shown in FIG. 3. The fuel cell is connected to the input of the DC/DC voltage converter, the output of the DC/DC voltage converter is connected to the input of the DC/AC voltage converter in parallel with the lithium battery, and the output of the DC/AC voltage converter is connected to the load. Therefore, the input power size of the DC/DC voltage converter is the output power size of the fuel cell. Since the conversion efficiency of the DC/DC voltage converter fluctuates weakly, it can be considered that η is a constant value, and the sum of the output power of the DC/DC voltage converter and the output power of the lithium battery is the input power of the DC/AC voltage converter, which is also equal to the demand power of the load.

[0056] Therefore, the real-time demand power P.sub.loaddemand of the load is calculated by the formula

P.sub.loaddemand=P.sub.DCDC-out+P.sub.lithiumbattery

P.sub.DCDC-out=ηP.sub.DCDC-in

P.sub.DCDC-in=P.sub.fuelcell

[0057] Where P.sub.loaddemand is the real-time demand power of the load, P.sub.DCDC-out is the output power of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.lithiumbattery is the output power of the lithium battery cell, η is the conversion efficiency of the DC/DC voltage converter, P.sub.DCDC-in is the input power of the DC/DC voltage converter, and P.sub.fuelcell is the output power of the fuel cell.

[0058] Since the demand power of the load can change at any time during vehicle operation, it is also necessary to determine whether the demand power of the load fluctuates significantly during the signal acquisition process before calculating the impedance. In fact, when measuring the impedance in the high frequency band, the whole measurement process takes only a few seconds or even a few milliseconds, and the smaller the change in the load demand power, the more reliable the impedance measurement results are. In this embodiment, the pre-set stability threshold is 1%, and if the calculated rate of change of load real-time demand power exceeds 1%, the impedance of the lithium battery is no longer calculated based on the output signal of the lithium battery, and only the impedance of the fuel cell is calculated.

[0059] In this embodiment, the pre-set time length T1 is 2 seconds. When the rate of change of load demand power exceeds 1%, the internal state of the battery changes faster and the measurement frequency needs to be increased, so wait for 2 seconds for the next measurement, and the impedance data obtained from the measurement is more representative.

[0060] S4: Calculate the impedance of fuel cell and lithium battery respectively, and wait for the pre-set time length T2 before executing step S5.

[0061] The calculation of impedance is implemented in the digital signal processor, and the calculation formulas for the fuel cell impedance, the single fuel cell impedance to be measured, the lithium battery impedance and the single lithium battery impedance to be measured are specified as

[00003]$Z\left(\omega \right)=\frac{V_A}{I_A}{e}^{j\left({\theta }_1-{\theta }_2\right)}$$V\left(t\right)=V_D+V_A\sin \left(\omega t+{\theta }_1\right)$$I\left(t\right)=I_D+I_A\sin \left(\omega t+{\theta }_2\right)$

[0062] Where Z(ω) represents the impedance, V(t) represents the collected voltage signal, V.sub.D represents the DC voltage signal in the collected voltage signal, V.sub.A represents the AC voltage signal in the collected voltage signal, I(t) represents the collected current signal, I.sub.D represents the DC current signal in the collected voltage signal, I.sub.A represents the AC current signal in the collected voltage signal, co represents the frequency of the AC signal, t represents the time, and θ.sub.1 and θ.sub.2 represent the initial phase of the AC voltage signal and the AC current signal, respectively.

[0063] In this embodiment, the pre-set time length T2 is 5 seconds. When the rate of change of load demand power is less than 1%, the vehicle is considered to be running smoothly, and the battery state changes slowly in a more stable situation, so wait for 5 seconds before making the next measurement.

[0064] S5: The control system obtains the impedance measurement control signal, and if the control signal is the end signal, the impedance measurement is ended, otherwise, step S1 is executed.

[0065] After calculating the impedance of the fuel cell, single fuel cell, lithium battery and single lithium battery, the state integration identification, safety monitoring and fault diagnosis of the fuel cell and lithium battery, such as the system water content of the fuel cell, the operating temperature and health status of the lithium battery, can be realized based on the impedance value, the corresponding characteristic parameters and the impedance spectrum model of the two batteries.

[0066] The above describes in detail a preferred specific embodiment of the present invention. It should be understood that a person of ordinary skill in the art can make many modifications and variations according to the conception of the present invention without creative labor. Therefore, any technical solution that can be obtained by logical analysis, reasoning or limited experiments based on the prior art by a person skilled in the art in accordance with the idea of the present invention shall be within the scope of protection determined by the claims.