TY - JOUR
T1 - Investigation of joint operation of a superconducting kinetic energy storage (flywheel) and solar cells
AU - Vajda, Istvan
AU - Kohari, Zalan
AU - Benko, Laszlo
AU - Meerovich, Victor
AU - Gawalek, Wolfgang
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 6, 2002. This work was supported in part by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences under Grant T 032729 and by the Sydkraft AB, Sweden, under Contract U-0002-09-Br (1997-). I. Vajda, Z. Kohari, and L. Benko are with the Department of Electrical Machines and Drives, Budapest University of Technology, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary (e-mail: [email protected]). V. Meerovich is with the Physics Department, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel. W. Gawalek is with IPHT Jena, D-07702 Jena, Germany. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2003.813026
PY - 2003/6/1
Y1 - 2003/6/1
N2 - Superconductors provide unique possibilities for storage of electricity, which is especially important for the reliability of networks supplied by renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy. A system consisting of an HTS-based levitated flywheel as the energy storage unit and solar cells as the power supply was installed and investigated as a model of a viable variant of the mini-power plant concept. Measurements were performed to obtain information about relevant storage characteristics such as efficiency and stability. Possibilities of fitting the storage unit to the solar supply were also investigated in order to get maximum charge and discharge efficiency.
AB - Superconductors provide unique possibilities for storage of electricity, which is especially important for the reliability of networks supplied by renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind energy. A system consisting of an HTS-based levitated flywheel as the energy storage unit and solar cells as the power supply was installed and investigated as a model of a viable variant of the mini-power plant concept. Measurements were performed to obtain information about relevant storage characteristics such as efficiency and stability. Possibilities of fitting the storage unit to the solar supply were also investigated in order to get maximum charge and discharge efficiency.
KW - Kinetic energy storage
KW - Photovoltaic cells
KW - Separation of loss components
KW - Superconducting levitation
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2003.813026
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2003.813026
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0042967415
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 13
SP - 2169
EP - 2172
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 2 II
T2 - 2002 Applied Superconductivity Conference
Y2 - 4 August 2002 through 9 August 2002
ER -
