Explosion Proof Battery Management System
Lead Acid and Nickel Cadmium batteries generate flammable hydrogen gas during the charging process. Various factors, including overcharging and excessive heat, can accelerate hydrogen production, leading to an elevated fire risk, explosion, and material deterioration.
In instances where ventilation within the battery room is inadequate, there exists likelihood of hydrogen accumulation. Adhering to the guidelines specified in the IEC60079-10-1 standard, the battery area is categorized as either Zone 1 or Zone 2 IIC T3. Consequently, all equipment installed in the battery room must be designed to meet the minimum requirements of IIC T3 as outlined in the IEC60079-14 standard.
CAPESERVE ENERGY Explosion Proof Battery Management System (ExBMS) integrates seamlessly with our resilient hardware devices, providing a dependable solution for monitoring and collecting battery data. Designed to meet the stringent flameproof Ex technique outlined in ATEX directives and the IECEx equipment certification scheme, our hardware devices are strategically installed in battery rooms and hazardous areas. This professional-grade solution ensures reliable data acquisition while offering intelligent software dashboards for comprehensive visualization.
Explosion Proof Battery Management System Features
- Suitable for Zone 1 or Zone 2 IIC T6 hazardous area – II 2 G D Ex db IIC T6 Gb IP66
- Explosion Proof Battery Management System components Sensor, Hub and CT installed in battery room are Ex certified.
- Optional Ex Controller for hazardous area.
- All sensor leads, cables, BBus interface, CAT6 cables are meeting IEC60079-14 cable requirement.
- Site installation work and time saving due to all cable glands & termination done at factory.
- ATEX and IECEx Certification – Component level.
- ATEX & IECEx Certification – System Level.
Ex Battery Monitoring System Key Features
- Battery Voltage
- Ohmic Value
- Battery Temperature
- String Current
- String Voltage
- and more…
Reporting Service
- Complete awareness of the overall condition of your batteries
- Assurance any battery issues will be identified to enable a timely response
- Reduce the internal effort required for monitoring battery performance data
Explosion Proof BMS Hardware system
Explosion Proof Sensor
Ex M-Sensor BMS-624S
Ex-M Sensors enable you to quickly and accurately record data from every battery. Located at the battery, msensors gather individual voltage (DC and ripple), impedance (Ohmic value), and temperature for VRLA, VLA, and Ni-Cd batteries. Advanced circuits in the mSensor drive fast data sampling and powerful measurement algorithms. 750Vdc optical isolation inside the sensor keeps the dangerous voltages at the battery and away from the operator, while still ensuring battery data is passed to the monitoring system at speed. Designed for use with batteries in racks or cabinets, msensors come with pre-terminated harnesses, making them a simple ‘plug and play’ solution for ease of installation.
Explosion Proof Hub
Ex Hub BMS 270H
Ex Hub on each battery string connects the various data points required to provide an accurate picture of your battery bank’s current and future state. The Ex Hub reduces the need for excessive cabling. It allows for more batteries to be added to every cable as well as being able to hold two roles (e.g. ambient temperature and current transducer). This reduces the clutter of a system and streamlines the configuration.
Explosion Proof CT
Ex CT BMS-624T
Ex Hub on each battery string connects the various data points required to provide an accurate picture of your battery bank’s current and future state. The Ex Hub reduces the need for excessive cabling. It allows for more batteries to be added to every cable as well as being able to hold two roles (e.g. ambient temperature and current transducer). This reduces the clutter of a system and streamlines the configuration.
Key Features
- Ni-Cd, 2V, 4V, 6V, 8V, 12V, 16V solutions.
- Simultaneous voltage sampling across all batteries.
- Temperature measured at negative terminal as per IEEE guidelines.
- 750Vdc optical isolation.
- Factory terminated harness.
- Cabinet or rack compatible.
- On-board high precision reference for impedance self-calibration.
Explosion Proof BMS Hardware System
Explosion Proof Battery Management System
Powering Performance
We are a leading supplier of battery management systems, supporting UPS Industries to achieve maximum availability by helping ensure power backup is always available.
Capeserve Energy ExBMS hardware combing with software provides a reliable monitoring and collection of battery data with smart software dashboards. These provide a real-time view of battery health and predictive analytics about future performance. All backed by world-class technical expertise in battery management
Controller
The Brain
The controller is an intelligent hardware device that at four-second intervals captures, processes, and stores all relevant data collected from batteries and the operating environment. The Controller captures, processes, and stores data from the Hubs and Sensors. This includes battery voltage (DC and ripple), impedance and temperature, string voltage and current (DC and ripple), humidity, plus ambient temperature.
Key Features
- Simple installation, minimal cabling and the capability to monitor UPS batteries that are up to 8 strings per system.
- A user-friendly web interface with smartphone/tablet friendly status screens.
- ATEX & IECEx Certification – System Level.
- Battery behaviour captured accurately through non-latching alarms, providing high resolution record of battery readings that cross two level alarm limits. Also captures the extreme values recorded during alarms.
- Integration with infrastructure management systems enabled with built-in protocols like SNMP, ModbusTCP, HTTP, DNP3 (Optional).
- Access options for non-networked sites, including LCD version of the Controller LX with keypad access, and simplified data collection option with USB port.
Battery Management Software
Our battery management software is a window into the health and performance of your battery systems. It enables you to make informed decisions quickly and proactively. Bundled with our Explosion Proof Battery Management System, the software application manages the Controller and records all battery readings in its database for viewing, trending, and reporting.
Data is turned into actionable information in the form of alerts and dashboards. The software also sends key information to the control room and facility management systems. Available across sites and to multiple users, our software comes with no additional licensing or costs.
Key Features
- Reduce the cost of manual monitoring and intervention (and the associated health and safety risk).
- Live discharge data.
- Permanent connection to multiple sites: for an unlimited number of batteries.
- Real-time battery status.
- Remote access via LAN.
- Alarm and activity log.
- Graphing and analysis tools.
- Discharge – individual events in detailed activity summary.
- Trending – impedance change, end of life, charge voltage, temperature.
Thermal Runaway Protection
TRP Detection & Protection
The Explosion Proof Battery Management System detects thermal runaway by monitoring the temperature difference between the individual batteries and the ambient. When a notable difference is detected, Explosion Proof Battery Management System raises an alarm1 and starts a countdown timer. If no action is taken by the operator before the end of the countdown period, the system sends a control signal. Depending on the installed equipment, a battery string breaker may be tripped or the charger directed to step down its voltage. These actions remove the energy source and break the thermal runaway cycle.
Enabling the output signal is by operator selection. In other words, you’re in control of how your facility – and your batteries – are managed.
Effective battery monitoring means keeping a close watch on the status of your batteries at all times. With the Explosion Proof Battery Management System TRP feature, thermal runaway is automatically detected, giving you the time you need to take corrective action.
TRP Features
The Explosion Proof Battery Management System comes with a Thermal Runaway Protection (TRP) option. It is designed to detect when one or more blocks in a string go into thermal runaway and provide a method to mitigate it.