Predicting the state of health of VRLA batteries in UPS using data-driven method

Abstract

Uninterruptible power battery (UPS) is an important part to ensure the stable operation of data center. Its security is related to the reliability and stability of power system. Among them, the state of health (SOH) prediction is a key issue of the valve regulated lead–acid (VRLA) battery operation and maintenance in data center. In this work, the battery SOH is predicted by the correlation between the nadir voltage value of Coup De Fouet (CDF) phenomenon and SOH. Then, the CDF phenomenon is combined with popular data-driven methods, such as linear regression, regression tree, support-vector machine, gaussian process, neural network, to predict battery SOH through 215 features. Finally, the above method is verified with the real discharge dataset of UPS battery in data center. The experimental results show that the data-driven method combining big data has higher accuracy than the simple prediction of battery SOH based on the nadir voltage value of CDF phenomenon and its variants.

Keywords

• Data center
• Battery state of health
• Coup De Fouet phenomenon
• Data-driven method