Design of power electronics for a satellite flywheel energy storage system

Author

Yan, Xinxiang ; Patterson, Dean ; Sable, Dan ; Zhuang, Xinfu ; Hua, Guichao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Northern Territory Univ., Darwin, NT, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1-3 Dec. 1998

Firstpage

815

Abstract

This paper presents the design of power electronics for a satellite flywheel energy storage system. Design issues includes system design considerations, the design of power stage of the flywheel inverter/rectifier, and the control strategies. A novel twelve-step control scheme was used to improve the phase current transition of BDCM in generator mode. A simple bidirectional current-mode controller for the control of three-phase currents in the BDCM is described. A prototype has been built and preliminary tests have verified the control strategies.

Keywords

brushless DC motors; electric current control; flywheels; invertors; machine control; rectifying circuits; BDCM; bidirectional current-mode controller; brushless DC machines; control strategies; flywheel invertor-rectifiers; phase current transition; power electronics; satellite flywheel energy storage system; twelve-step control scheme; Brushless DC motors; Costs; DC motors; Energy storage; Flywheels; Inverters; Permanent magnet motors; Power electronics; Satellites; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronic Drives and Energy Systems for Industrial Growth, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4879-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDES.1998.1330706

Filename

1330706