"Control of Flywheel Energy Storage as a means to Peak Power Reduction"
A talk and debate by PhD Candidate Alessandro D'Ambrosio
9th of October 2017
Building 329, room 005
10-11 am
Abstract:
The new Electrification Program undertaken by Banedanmark aims at expanding the operation of electric trains all over Denmark, starting from the railway section between Esbjerg and Lunderskov. One of the issues of this project lays on the single-phase peak power consumption of the railway system, which may lead to fluctuations in power consumption and voltage unbalance in the transmission grid. Hence, the main focus of this PhD project is the design of a control strategy of a flywheel to shave the peak power demand of the trains. This flywheel will be constructed by the Danish company WattsUp
Power and installed at the substation located in Andst. The first months of the research have been addressed to the derivation of a time domain model of the railway system that faithfully represents the nature of the railway loads. Afterwards, a real flywheel will be installed in DTU Powerlab to test the control strategy with the help of the model previously derived.
Bio:
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Alessandro D’Ambrosio received his MSc in Electrical Engineering in
2016 from DTU.
In February 2017, he began his PhD project at DTU in
cooperation with DTU Energy,
Banedanmark and WattsUp Power. His PhD
project is partially funded by the Energy
Development and Demonstration
Program (EUDP).
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Everyone is welcome!