A new flywheel energy storage system using hybrid superconducting magnetic bearings

Author

Fang, J.R. ; Lin, L.Z. ; Yan, L.G. ; Xiao, L.Y.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Eng., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

Volume

11

Issue

1

fYear

2001

fDate

3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1657

Lastpage

1660

Abstract

The high temperature superconductor (HTS) YBaCuO coupled with permanent magnets has been applied to construct the superconducting magnetic bearings (SMB) which can be utilized in some engineering fields such as the flywheel energy storage system (FESS). However, there are many problems needed to be resolved, such as low stiffness and damping, the uncertainty of working displacement, flux creep and flux flow. In this paper, a new FESS using hybrid SMB system which consists of SMB, active magnetic bearings (AMB), and permanent magnetic bearings (PMB) is presented. In this design, the authors constructed an experimental device for the FESS with hybrid SMB. An axial PMB is joined to provide a levitation force so as to suspend a heavier flywheel; in addition, two AMB are added in radial degrees to improve the stiffness by two orders of magnitude from 10⁴ N/m to 10⁶ N/m and the damping of FESS

Keywords

barium compounds; copper compounds; electric generators; electric motors; flywheels; high-temperature superconductors; machine bearings; machine testing; magnetic bearings; magnetic flux; superconducting machines; yttrium compounds; YBaCuO; active magnetic bearings; damping; flux creep; flux flow; flywheel energy storage system; hybrid superconducting magnetic bearings; levitation force; motor-generators; permanent magnetic bearings; stiffness; working displacement; Couplings; Damping; Energy storage; Flywheels; High temperature superconductors; Magnetic levitation; Permanent magnets; Power engineering and energy; Superconducting magnets; Yttrium barium copper oxide;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.920099

Filename

920099