Disclosure of Invention
Therefore, it is necessary to provide a method for calibrating the remaining capacity of a battery, which can effectively reduce errors during the use of the battery, in order to solve the problem that the existing method for calibrating the remaining capacity of the battery has errors during normal use.
A remaining capacity calibration method of a battery, comprising: determining the working voltage range required by the load of the battery; in the working voltage range, performing discharge test on the battery, and testing a corresponding relation curve of the residual capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery by using an open-circuit voltage method; storing a corresponding relation curve of the residual capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery; judging whether the battery is in a standby state or not; and if so, detecting the current terminal voltage of the battery, and calibrating the residual capacity of the battery according to the relation curve.
According to the method for calibrating the residual capacity of the battery, whether the battery is in a standby state or not is judged under the condition that the battery is in the using process, the current terminal voltage of the battery is detected, and the residual capacity of the battery is calibrated by using the corresponding relation curve of the residual capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery, so that errors are effectively reduced.
In one embodiment, the determining whether the battery is in a standby state includes: judging whether the charging and discharging current of the battery is smaller than a set current value or not; if so, recording the duration time that the charging and discharging current of the battery is less than the set current value; and when the duration time that the charging and discharging current is less than the set current value is longer than the set time, determining that the battery is in a standby state.
In one embodiment, the set current value is 0.02C, where C is the charge-discharge rate of the battery.
In one embodiment, the set time is obtained by: discharging the battery at a maximum operating current when the battery is fully charged; in the discharging process, judging whether the current terminal voltage of the battery is smaller than a set voltage value; if so, disconnecting the output circuit of the battery and judging whether the open-circuit voltage of the battery is stable; if the open-circuit voltage of the battery is stable, recording the time from the disconnection of the output circuit of the battery to the stabilization of the open-circuit voltage of the battery; the elapsed time is set as the set time.
In one embodiment, the set voltage value is a discharge end voltage of the battery.
In one embodiment, the set voltage value is a minimum operating voltage of a battery load.
In one embodiment, the maximum operating current is a maximum operating current of a battery load.
In one embodiment, if the battery is not in a standby state, the remaining capacity of the battery is calibrated by an ampere-hour integration method.
In one embodiment, the relationship curve is divided into 30 to 40 sections uniformly according to the coordinate of the axis of the residual capacity of the battery, and the start point and the end point of the relationship curve in each section are connected by a straight line segment.
In one embodiment, the relation curve is uniformly divided into 34 sections according to the coordinate of the axis of the residual capacity of the battery, and the start point and the end point of the relation curve in each section are connected by a straight line segment.
Detailed Description
In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.
As shown in fig. 1, the method for calibrating the remaining capacity of a battery includes the following steps S1100 to S1600.
And step S1100, determining the working voltage range required by the load of the battery.
That is, the minimum operating voltage of the load and the maximum operating voltage of the load are determined according to the load normal operation requirement of the battery, thereby determining the operating range voltage required by the load of the battery.
And S1200, performing a discharge test on the battery within the working voltage range, and testing a corresponding relation curve of the residual capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery by using an open-circuit voltage method.
The basic principle of the open-circuit voltage method is to fully stand the battery to restore the terminal voltage of the battery to the open-circuit voltage, and the standing time is generally more than 1 hour. It can be understood that the minimum operating voltage of the load corresponds to the minimum remaining capacity of the battery, i.e. zero, and the maximum operating voltage of the load corresponds to the maximum remaining capacity of the battery.
That is, in the open circuit voltage method test, the test is started from the minimum operating voltage of the load to the end of the test of the maximum operating voltage of the load, so that the remaining capacity of the battery corresponding to the open circuit voltage of the battery in one-to-one correspondence within the operating voltage range required by the load is obtained. In this embodiment, the open-circuit voltage of the battery is plotted on the abscissa and the remaining capacity of the battery is plotted on the ordinate, so that a correspondence curve between the remaining capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery is obtained.
It is to be understood that, in another embodiment, the open-circuit voltage of the battery is taken as the ordinate, and the remaining capacity of the battery is taken as the abscissa, so as to obtain a corresponding relationship curve of the remaining capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery.
Step S1300 stores a correspondence curve between the remaining capacity of the battery and the open circuit voltage of the battery.
Specifically, the battery management system stores the correspondence curve of the remaining capacity of the storage battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery obtained in step S1200.
Of course, in order to facilitate storage and subsequent calculation of the relationship curve in the battery management system and ensure a certain calculation accuracy, the relationship curve may be processed by a piecewise linearization method.
Specifically, the relationship curve is divided into 30 to 40 sections uniformly in the coordinate of the axis on which the remaining capacity of the battery is located, and the start point and the end point of the relationship curve in each section are connected by a straight line segment.
More specifically, the relationship curve is divided evenly into 34 sections in the coordinate of the axis on which the remaining capacity of the battery is located, and the start point and the end point of the relationship curve in this section are connected by a straight line segment in each section.
Step S1400, determining whether the battery is in a standby state, if so, performing step S1500, otherwise, performing step S1600.
Specifically, as shown in fig. 2, it is a flowchart for determining whether the battery is in a standby state, and the method includes the following steps S1410 to S1430.
Step S1410, determining whether the charging and discharging current of the battery is smaller than a set current value, if so, executing step S1420, otherwise, returning to continue determining.
A set current value can be determined according to the condition of the battery and the working condition of the battery load, and is used for judging the standby state of the battery.
Specifically, the set current value may be 0.02C, where C is the charge-discharge rate of the battery. Wherein, the charge-discharge multiplying power is charge-discharge current/rated capacity; for example: when the battery 20A having a rated capacity of 100Ah was discharged, the discharge rate was 0.2C. Cell discharge C rate, 1C, 2C, 0.2C is cell discharge rate: a measure of how fast the discharge is. The used capacity is discharged after 1 hour, and the discharge is called 1C discharge; when the discharge was completed for 5 hours, the discharge was called 1/5 ═ 0.2C discharge. For example, for a 24AH cell, the 2C discharge current is 48A and the 0.5C discharge current is 12A.
That is, the set current value used for determining the standby state of the battery is related to the capacity of the battery, and different set current values are adopted for batteries with different capacities.
In step S1420, the duration of time during which the charge/discharge current of the battery is less than the set current value is recorded.
That is, when the charge and discharge current of the battery is smaller than the set current value, the recording of the duration in which the charge and discharge current of the battery is smaller than the set current value is started.
And step S1430, when the duration of the charging and discharging current less than the set current value is greater than the set time, determining that the battery is in a standby state.
A set time for judging the standby state of the battery can be determined according to the condition of the battery and the working condition of the battery load.
In order to make the setting of the set time more accurate, the set time may be obtained by the following method.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart of a method for obtaining the set time, which includes the following steps S1431 to S1435.
Step S1431 discharges the battery at the maximum operating current when the battery is fully charged.
In particular, the maximum operating current may be a maximum operating current of a battery load.
Step S1432, in the discharging process, it is determined whether the current terminal voltage of the battery is smaller than the set voltage value, if yes, step S1433 is executed, otherwise, the determination is returned to continue.
Specifically, the set voltage value may be a discharge end voltage of the battery or a minimum operating voltage of a battery load.
And step S1433, disconnecting the output circuit of the battery and judging whether the open-circuit voltage of the battery is stable, if so, executing step S1434, otherwise, returning to continue judging.
The disconnection of the output circuit of the battery means that the battery is opened, and the judgment of whether the open-circuit voltage of the battery is stable can be made by detecting whether the voltage fluctuation width of the open-circuit voltage of the battery is smaller than the preset voltage value. The voltage preset value can be selected according to the size of the working voltage range required by the load. It can be understood that the larger the working voltage range required by the load, the larger the voltage preset value can be. The smaller the working voltage range required by the load, the smaller the voltage preset value can be obtained.
Step S1434 records the time elapsed after the output circuit of the battery is turned off until the open-circuit voltage of the battery is stabilized.
That is, the recording of the time is started after the output circuit of the battery is turned off until the open circuit voltage of the battery is stabilized.
Step S1435, the elapsed time is set time.
The method for obtaining the set time comprises the steps of discharging the battery at the maximum working current under the full-charge condition until the current end voltage is smaller than the set voltage value, then disconnecting the output circuit of the battery, enabling the open-circuit voltage of the battery to rise, enabling the open-circuit voltage of the battery to recover to be stable after a certain time, recording the time which passes from the disconnection of the output circuit of the battery to the stabilization of the open-circuit voltage of the battery, taking the time which passes as the set time, calculating the time required by the battery to discharge under the extreme condition, and enabling the end voltage of the battery to recover to be stable. After the battery normally charges and discharges the load, the time required for the terminal voltage of the battery to recover to be stable is less than the set time obtained by the method.
And S1500, detecting the current terminal voltage of the battery, and calibrating the residual capacity of the battery according to the relation curve.
That is, the present terminal voltage of the battery is detected, the remaining capacity of the battery is obtained through the correspondence curve of the remaining capacity of the battery and the open circuit voltage of the battery stored in the battery management system, and the calibration of the remaining capacity of the battery is completed.
And step S1600, calibrating the residual capacity of the battery by using an ampere-hour integration method.
Since the ampere-hour integration method is a prior art for calibrating the remaining energy of the battery, it is not described in detail.
According to the method for calibrating the residual capacity of the battery, whether the battery is in a standby state or not is judged under the condition that the battery is in the using process, the current terminal voltage of the battery is detected, and the residual capacity of the battery is calibrated by using the corresponding relation curve of the residual capacity of the battery and the open-circuit voltage of the battery, so that errors are effectively reduced.
The technical features of the embodiments described above may be arbitrarily combined, and for the sake of brevity, all possible combinations of the technical features in the embodiments described above are not described, but should be considered as being within the scope of the present specification as long as there is no contradiction between the combinations of the technical features.
The above-mentioned embodiments only express several embodiments of the present invention, and the description thereof is more specific and detailed, but not construed as limiting the scope of the invention. It should be noted that, for a person skilled in the art, several variations and modifications can be made without departing from the inventive concept, which falls within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present patent shall be subject to the appended claims.