Flywheel electric motor/generator characterization for hybrid vehicles

Author

Gao, Yimin ; Gay, Sèbastien E. ; Ehsani, Mehrdad ; Thelen, Robert F. ; Hebner, Robert E.

Author_Institution

Adv. Vehicle Syst. Res. Program, Texas A&M Univ., TX, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

3321

Abstract

In this paper, the power and energy of a passenger vehicle with a typical acceleration profile and several particular drive cycles are examined. Then the power and energy of a flywheel energy storage system (FESS) is studied and the characteristics are compared to the vehicle requirements to see how design decisions may be optimized for the FESS-based hybrid vehicle (HV) application. The special characteristics of the major FESS components (power electronics, motor-generator, and flywheel kinetic energy element) offer an opportunity for optimization for hybrid vehicle operation.

Keywords

electric generators; electric motors; flywheels; hybrid electric vehicles; optimisation; flywheel electric generator; flywheel electric motor; flywheel energy storage system; hybrid vehicle; optimization; passenger vehicle; Acceleration; Character generation; Design optimization; Electric motors; Energy storage; Flywheels; Hybrid power systems; Kinetic energy; Power electronics; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1286291

Filename

1286291