Energy storage solution providers face increasing pressure to integrate batteries, inverters, loads renewables, and control systems into efficient, scalable, and reliable solutions while meeting strict performance targets and regulatory standards.
GT-SUITE addresses these challenges with a multi-physics simulation platform that simplifies system design, accelerates time-to-market, and ensures operational reliability. Its comprehensive modeling capabilities empower engineers to optimize energy flow, enhance system efficiency, and achieve faster, more cost-effective development cycles.
OVERCOMING CORE CHALLENGES IN BESS DEVELOPMENT
BESS solution providers face the task of integrating complex components such as batteries, inverters, and renewable energy source while optimizing system performance and meet market expectation. Meeting these challenges requires cutting-edge simulation tools and advanced digital twin technology.
Complex system integration
Combining batteries, inverters, renewable energy source, and grid into a high-performance BESS requires a careful exploration of the design trade-offs balancing efficiency, cost, and reliability while managing technical requirements.
Accelerated Time-to-Market
Rising market demand forces providers to shorten design and testing cycles while maintaining product quality. Delays in prototyping, compliance testing, and system optimization often slow product launches.
Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
The global energy storage regulations and industry standards require constant testing and reporting. Providers must stay compliant while adapting designs to meet new certifications and safety constraints.
Meeting Customer Expectations
Customers expect turnkey solutions with guaranteed performance, efficiency, and long-term reliability. Delivering on these expectations while balancing cost-efficiency is critical for business success.
GT SOLUTIONS FOR ELECTRIC BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
Achieving optimized, efficient, and reliable Energy Storage Systems (ESS) requires advanced tools that address the complexities of design, testing, and operational performance. GT-SUITE offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to address the challenges of BESS development, enabling providers to deliver systems with confidence.
Multiphysics-Based Modeling
GT-SUITE offers a comprehensive Multiphysics Modeling solution that simulates complex interactions across thermal, chemical, electrical, and mechanical domains. It enables detailed analysis of system performance, optimizing design for high scalability, reliability, and safety, while addressing challenges such as battery thermal runaway and aging during operation.
Discover how GT-SUITE tackles these challenges below:
+ Battery Performance and Degradation
GT-SUITE allows to create simulations of detailed electrochemical processes to predict battery degradation, optimizing charge-discharge cycles for extended lifespan, and conducting thermal and electrical analyses to ensure safe, efficient energy storage.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-AutoLion
+ Power Electronic Performance and Design
GT-SUITE enhances power electronic performance and design by simulating circuits to improve efficiency, evaluating thermal impacts to prevent overheating, and integrating battery and power electronics simulations for seamless compatibility across systems.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-PowerForge
+ Power-to-Gas
GT-SUITE addresses Power-to-Gas challenges by:
- Simulating hydrogen, methane, methanol production efficiency under varied load scenarios.
- Optimizing sizing for compressors, electrolyzes, and storage tanks
- Integrating renewable energy inputs to improve overall system efficiency and reduce costs.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-xCHEM
+ Advanced Thermal Management
GT-SUITE helps manage heat dissipation in battery systems by utilizing thermal finite element analysis for optimized heat flow, simulating thermal runaway scenarios for proactive risk management, and optimizing cooling system design to balance performance and energy efficiency.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-CONVERGE
- GT-A3DFlow
System-Level Energy Management
The System-Level Energy Management solution in GT-SUITE addresses challenges in:
- Managing energy flow across batteries, inverters, and grid systems for optimization
- Enhancing system efficiency by evaluating and accounting for all inputs, outputs, and losses, including renewable energy sources.
- Integrating renewable energy sources. By simulating dynamic load profiles, GT-SUITE ensure consistent energy delivery.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-Optimizer
Cloud-Enabled Digital Twin Monitoring
GT-SUITE allows users to execute physically predictive or machine learning models in dynamic digital twin environments. Accurate comparison of field data with design performance helps engineers to identify faults and uncover opportunities for system optimization. Additionally, real-time simulation of real-world scenarios ensures operational efficiency, providing actionable insights to enhance system performance and reliability.
GT products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-PLAY
Virtual Testing and Calibration
GT-SUITE’s Virtual Testing and Calibration solutions replace costly, time-consuming physical prototypes with advanced virtual simulations, accelerating development and reducing production costs. Such features as Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) integration, real-time simulation environments, and compliance testing automation, ensure system reliability.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
- GT-xRT
AI-Driven Insights
GT-SUITE leverages AI-driven insights to reduce model complexity while preserving system dynamics, implement automated fault detection for early issue identification, and optimize design configurations for enhanced efficiency and performance. GT-SUITE allows the deployment of AI-Driven Insights on hardware or in the cloud.
GT Products:
- GT-SUITE
Data-Driven Design
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BROCHURE
PUBLICATIONS
Access available Technical Publications on Energy Storage such as:
- Overview of GT-SUITE Modeling for sCO2 based Power Cycle and Pumped Thermal Energy Storage Systems (2022)
- H2 storage solutions as backup for power demand in grid disruption events: a case study (2024)
- Development of a X-in-the-Loop Framework for Hydrogen Storage Control Functions using a Physical Hydrogen Storage Model (2024)
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