Comparative study of flywheel systems in an isolated wind plant

C. Carrillo, A. Feijóo and J. Cidrás

Renewable Energy, 2009, vol. 34, issue 3, 890-898

Abstract: Flywheels can be used as storage elements in islanded power systems and, as a special case, in isolated wind plants, especially those running at almost constant speed and included as a component in diesel groups. Nowadays, systems with variable speed are under development, so the amount of available energy in the flywheel is highly increased. In this paper, a variable speed flywheel based on hydrostatic transmission (HT) is presented. A comparison between an almost constant speed flywheel, a variable speed one based on a power electronic converter, and the proposed system is made by means of simulations in order to evaluate the behaviour of this configuration.

Keywords: Flywheels; Mechanical energy storage; Wind power generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.06.003

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