Distributed Flywheel Energy Storage Systems for mitigating the effects of pulsed loads

Author

Elsayed, Ahmed T. ; Mohammed, Osama A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

27-31 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents a distributed Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) for mitigating the effects of pulsed loads such as those exist in Shipboard Power Systems (SPS). A comparison between distributed and centralized allocation of FESS was provided with and without the utilization of ultra-capacitors on the DC side. A model for hybrid AC/DC SPS with zonal distribution architecture was built in a simulation software. In order to accurately evaluate the performance of the system, three different case studies are presented with and without the FESS. The results of each case are analyzed and discussed. It can be shown that the distributed allocation of FESS can reduce the overloading on the generators and frequency fluctuations.

Keywords

flywheels; load (electric); marine power systems; FESS centralized allocation; FESS distributed allocation; distributed flywheel energy storage systems; frequency fluctuations; generator overloading; hybrid AC-DC SPS; pulsed load mitigation; shipboard power systems; zonal distribution architecture; Capacitors; Fluctuations; Flywheels; Generators; Loading; Oscillators; Flywheel energy storage system (FESS); PMSM; pulsed load; shipboard power system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

PES General Meeting | Conference & Exposition, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

National Harbor, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939822

Filename

6939822