A flywheel energy storage system test on the International Space Station

Author

Christopher, David A. ; Beach, Raymond F. ; Barton, John R.

Author_Institution

NASA Lewis Res. Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

27 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

1762

Abstract

This paper describes how a flywheel demonstration unit will be placed on the International Space Station (ISS) in early 2000. Operation on ISS at this early date will allow adequate time to evaluate flywheel performance prior to the time the selection is made for replacing degraded batteries. If the flywheel performance is good, then the degraded batteries can be replaced with flywheels and the benefits of such a technology can be realized. If the performance is not good, then technology advancements must be made before flywheel energy storage technology is applied to some future space vehicle

Keywords

aerospace testing; artificial satellites; flywheels; space vehicle power plants; International Space Station; flywheel demonstration unit; flywheel energy storage system test; performance evaluation; space power; technology advancements; Batteries; Bidirectional control; Energy storage; Flywheels; International Space Station; Inverters; NASA; System testing; US Department of Defense; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1997. IECEC-97., Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4515-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1997.656689

Filename

656689