Title :
Energy storage in rotating machines
Author_Institution :
UKAEA Culham Lab., Abingdon, UK
Abstract :
The author discusses energy storage in three forms of rotating machines: flywheels, homopolar generators, and compulsators (compensated pulsed alternators). The disadvantages of flywheels and homopolar generators are discussed. The requirements for shorter pulses are met by compulsators in which compensating currents reduce the armature inductance. The three methods of producing compensation, active, passive, and selectively passive, are discussed in detail
Keywords :
alternators; energy storage devices; homopolar generators; armature inductance; compensated pulsed alternators; compensating currents; compulsators; energy storage; flywheels; homopolar generators; rotating machines;
Conference_Titel :
Pulsed Power Technology, IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
