Energy storage system for renewable energy source
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsRobert Gregory Wagoner, Harold Robert Schnetzka
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Abstract
An energy storage system for use in a renewable energy power system is provided. More particularly, an energy storage system can be coupled to the DC bus of a power converter in a renewable energy power system. A switching power supply can be coupled between the energy storage device and the DC bus of the power converter. The switching power supply can include a bi-directional resonant DC to DC converter. The bi-directional resonant converter can include a plurality of switching elements, a resonant circuit coupled to the at least one switching element, and a filtering circuit coupled to the resonant circuit. The bi-directional resonant converter can be configured to accommodate power flow in at least two directions.
Claims4
A bi-directional resonant DC to DC power converter comprising:
- a first transistor having a gate, a collector, and an emitter;
- a second transistor having a gate, a collector, and an emitter, the collector of the second transistor being coupled to the emitter of the first transistor;
- a resonant circuit coupled to a node between the first transistor and the second transistor, the resonant circuit having a first inductor and a first capacitor, the resonant circuit configured such that a resonant current flowing through the first inductor goes below zero in every resonant cycle;
- a filtering circuit coupled to a node between the first inductor and the first capacitor, the filtering circuit comprising a second inductor and a second capacitor, the filtering circuit configured to filter the resonant current flowing through the first inductor to provide a substantially DC output.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.