Flywheel Energy Storage System Using Superconducting Magnetic Bearings for Demonstration Tests

Financially supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan, the Railway Technical Research Institute has co-developed a flywheel energy storage system in association with KUBOTEK, FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, MIRAPRO and YAMANASHI prefecture. The flywheel system was chosen as an energy storage medium because in terms of life span, cost, capacity and output power, flywheel energy storage systems offer more advantages than other energy storage systems. It stores energy in the form of kinetic energy. Therefore, there is no electrochemical damage. This paper first describes the effect of the flywheel energy storage system, and then presents details of the equipment used in a demonstration test.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.2219/rtriqr.57.3_221
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • HASEGAWA, Hitoshi
  • MATSUE, Hitoshi
  • NAGASHIMA, Ken
  • YAMASHITA, Tomohisa
• Publication Date: 2016

Language

• English
• Japanese

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 221-227
• Serial:
  • Quarterly Report of RTRI
  • Volume: 57
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Railway Technical Research Institute
  • ISSN: 0033-9008
  • EISSN: 1880-1765
  • Serial URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/rtriqr/-char/en
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric railroads; Energy storage systems; Engine bearings; Flywheels; Superconducting magnets
• Subject Areas: Energy; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01616636
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• Files: TRIS, JSTAGE
• Created Date: Nov 21 2016 1:23PM