Ramon Aguilar Mendoza, “Test of a Hybrid Energy Storage System”
Mentor: Robert Cuzner, Electrical Engineering
Poster #128

As the world moves to a renewable energy-based economy, having a more capable stored energy system such as the HESS (Hybrid Energy Storage System). The HESS is designed to work in the Air Force bases, with the clear goal of helping the Air Force be a leader in the area of renewable energy and sustainability. The HESS is a structure that has the capability of being charged with DC energy. Furthermore, it has the capability to discharge when the system to which it is connected loses or requires more energy to keep working normally. In this project, the HESS unit will be provided for the Badger Technology Group and tested in UWM’s Center for Sustainable Electrical Energy Systems (SEES). The testing will be focused on two parts, charging the HESS batteries and discharging them. The first part of the testing was done by connecting the HESS with a load and the UWM microgrid. Then the next part is executed the charging testing. In this part, the objective is to charge all the batteries at a constant rate of power. For the discharge testing, the goal is to see if the battery can be discharged at a constant rate of power.