Flywheels, one of the earliest forms of energy storage, could play a significant role in the transformation of the electrical power system into one that is fully sustainable yet low cost.
Other opportunities are new applications in energy harvest, hybrid energy systems, and flywheel’s secondary functionality apart from energy storage. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Electric vehicles are typical representatives of new energy vehicle technology applications, which are developing rapidly and the market is huge. Flywheel energy storage systems can be mainly used in the field of electric vehicle charging stations and on-board flywheels.
The use of new materials and compact designs will increase the specific energy and energy density to make flywheels more competitive to batteries. Other opportunities are new applications in energy harvest, hybrid energy systems, and flywheel’s secondary functionality apart from energy storage.
Indeed, the development of high strength, low-density carbon fiber composites (CFCs) in the 1970s generated renewed interest in flywheel energy storage. Based on design strengths typically used in commercial flywheels, σ max /ρ is around 600 kNm/kg for CFC, whereas for wrought flywheel steels, it is around 75 kNm/kg.
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Flywheels, one of the earliest forms of energy storage, could play a significant role in the transformation of the electrical power system into one which is fully sustainable yet low cost. …
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energy storage, could play a significant role in the transformation of the electri-cal power system into one that is fully sustainable yet low cost. This article describes the major components that …