Research on control strategy of flywheel energy storage system based on active disturbance rejection control

The flywheel energy storage system (FESS) has been attracting the attention of national and international academicians gradually with its benefits such as high energy power density, high conversion productivity, and inexpensive pollution. For the mutual limitation problem of reaction speed and overshoot of the conventional PI controller, it is hard to satisfy the demand of high efficiency control. In this study, the Active Disturbance Rejection Controller (ADRC) is adopted to substitute the classical PI controller in the flywheel energy storage control system. The control system of an external loop of speed and an internal loop of current is adopted at the motor side. The standard ADRC is adopted by increasing the new nonlinear control function. The control system adopted the control strategy of the DC bus voltage external loop and the current internal loop on the grid side, as well as the second-order Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Controller (LADRC), to enhance the control ability of the DC bus voltage. In the charge/discharge control of the FESS, both the velocity external loop and current internal loop control strategies are utilized to simplify the system structure. The performance shows that the improved control system could effectively enhance the charging and discharging speed of the FESS and effectively suppress the DC bus voltage rise caused by flywheel state switching so that the system has better robustness.