Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) for industrial applications-comparison with battery systems

Author

Therond, P.G. ; Joly, I. ; Volker, M.

Author_Institution

Electr. de France, Clamart, France

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

1993

fDate

3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

250

Lastpage

253

Abstract

The authors have considered using a superconducting coil to store energy as an impulsive high power supply for industrial applications such as smoothing of short power interruptions, and smoothing of varying load. They present the results of an economic and technical evaluation of such a system for two applications. The applications are (1) as substitution for the flywheels of the primary pump motors of nuclear power stations and (2) related to the design of magnetic energy storage for load smoothing. A general evaluation of costs is given, and they are compared to those of battery systems.<>

Keywords

costing; load regulation; nuclear power stations; superconducting magnet energy storage; SMES; battery systems comparison; costs; flywheels substitution; impulsive high power supply; industrial applications; nuclear power stations; primary pump motors; short power interruptions; smoothing; superconducting coil; varying load; Electricity supply industry; Energy storage; Flywheels; Power generation; Power generation economics; Power smoothing; Power system economics; Samarium; Superconducting coils; Superconducting magnetic energy storage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.233718

Filename

233718