Power Smoothing Using a Flywheel Driven by a Switched Reluctance Machine

Author

Cárdenas, R. ; Pena, R. ; Pérez, M. ; Asher, G. ; Clare, J. ; Wheeler, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Magallanes Univ.

fYear

2005

fDate

16-16 June 2005

Firstpage

2943

Lastpage

2948

Abstract

In this paper a novel control system for power smoothing using a switched reluctance machine (SRM) driving a flywheel is presented. Power smoothing is achieved by controlling the SRM to operate as a motor/generator, storing or retrieving energy from a rotating flywheel. In order to increase the rotational energy stored in the flywheel, the SRM operates at high rotational speed and the machine phase current is controlled using single pulse mode. The control strategies proposed in this work have been experimentally implemented in a 2.5 kW prototype based on an 8/6 switched reluctance machine. Experimental results are presented and discussed

Keywords

electric current control; flywheels; machine control; phase control; reluctance machines; energy retrieval; flywheel drives; motor-generator; phase current control; power smoothing; switched reluctance machine; Capacitors; Flywheels; Power generation; Power smoothing; Prototypes; Reluctance machines; Reluctance motors; Topology; Voltage control; Wind turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics Specialists Conference, 2005. PESC '05. IEEE 36th

Conference_Location

Recife

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9033-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESC.2005.1582052

Filename

1582052