{"id":2484,"date":"2019-11-03T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.energyteam.it\/accumulo-smart-grid-progetto-europeo-energykeeper\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T18:01:43","slug":"storage-smart-grid-european-energykeeper-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyteam.it\/en\/storage-smart-grid-european-energykeeper-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage and Smart Grid for the European EnergyKeeper project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To design, develop and test a storage system that would be competitive on the market and equipped with a monitoring system.
These are the premises of the European EnergyKeeper project which saw us working side by side with operators from different countries to complete this ambitious project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The EnergyKeeper project (http:\/\/www.energykeeper.eu\/<\/a>), through funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 <\/strong>research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 731239, involved a team of professionals consisting of technicians and specialist engineers belonging to various companies at European level, with the aim of building a flow battery based on organic redox 30kW materials with a capacity of 100kWh, equipped with a management system which allowed a plug & play integration at the Smart Grid of the ACRRES test site in Lelystad in the Netherlands<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project also made it possible to determine the physical-chemical characteristics of different types of organic electrolytes (electrolyte density, diffusion coefficient, solution viscosity) and to define a number of useful quantities for the cells that compose the storage systems, such as voltage cell and stability after repeated charging and discharging cycles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3D model of the 100 kWh\/30 kW redox flow battery:
left – power supply unit containing batteries, battery management system, converter;
right – memory unit containing the electrolyte tanks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The interoperability of the Smart Grid<\/strong> was ensured by a specially developed management system that was used to test certain business models proposed in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On several occasions, Energy Team technicians<\/strong> went to ACRRES to install the tools and to make sure that the entire architecture worked as designed; this made it possible to remotely monitor the correct functioning of the system, guaranteeing its safety and reliability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, checks on the system carried out through the measuring devices implemented in the project (the NG-9 analyser and the NG-Gateway data logger) were used to successfully test the proposed business models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was presented at a workshop held last October in the Netherlands and at which Energy Team, with the support of Falck Renewables, presented this and other cases of energy communities and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n