Description
In recent decades, the growing use of renewable energy sources has increased the need for energy storage systems to balance power production and consumption. Among the available technologies, flywheel energy storage systems store energy as kinetic energy in a rotating mass. The system is charged and discharged by accelerating and decelerating the wheel, using an electrical machine operating as a motor or a generator. The design of this machine plays a key role in enabling long storage durations, as it must combine high efficiency during the energy conversion, and minimal spinning losses that accumulate over long storage cycles.
Speaker
Mr
François Boulanger
(Mechatronic, Electrical Energy, and Dynamic Systems (MEED) - UCLouvain)
