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Feasibility Study and Design of a Flywheel Energy System in a Microgrid for Small Village in Pacific Island State Countries

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In Pacific Island Countries (PICs), energy supplies depend on fossil fuel (FF), with few exceptions. However, since the associated populations are often scattered among different settlements in remote locations, renewable energy sources (RES) are increasingly meeting their electrical production power demands. Contrary to FF generated power, RES vary with season, time and weather conditions. Consequently, to maintain stability, reliability and power quality, energy storage is a key consideration for a viable RES set-up. Despite, there being many different kinds of energy storage system, a flywheel energy storage system (FESS) appears to be highly suitable for the microgrid (MG), because of their minimal environmental impact (green energy storage) and high cycle life when compared with other storage energy devices such as batteries. This chapter presents a detailed overview of the feasibility, design and control strategy of a FESS for MG applications. The fundamental developments are as follows: first, to design a suitable flywheel in order to increase reliability and stability of the power in the RES. Second to design a control technique for the FESS based on a nonlinear observer integrated with total least squares (TLS).

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Abbreviations

DG:

Distributed generation

DTC:

Direct torque control

ESS:

Energy storage system

FESS:

Flywheel energy storage system

FF:

Fossil fuel

FOC:

Field orient control

IGBT:

Insulated-gate bipolar transistor

IM:

Induction machine

IMPM:

Interior mounted permanent magnets

MG:

Microgrid

PCC:

Points of common coupling

PICs:

Pacific island countries

PMSM:

Permanent magnet synchronous motor

RES:

Renewable energy sources

RES:

Renewable energy sources (RES)

SV-PWM:

Space vector pulse width modulation

TLS:

Total least square

VOC:

Voltage oriented control

VSI:

Voltage source inverters

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Acknowledgements

This research has been realized also within the project REFEPICS (Design of a REnewable energy source system with a Flywheel Energy storage system for supplying energy in Pacific Island Countries with weak grid) funded by the French Pacific Fund.

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    D. Aitchison, M. Cirrincione, G. Cirrincione, A. Mohammadi & M. Pucci

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Aitchison, D., Cirrincione, M., Cirrincione, G., Mohammadi, A., Pucci, M. (2017). Feasibility Study and Design of a Flywheel Energy System in a Microgrid for Small Village in Pacific Island State Countries. In: Islam, F., Mamun, K., Amanullah, M. (eds) Smart Energy Grid Design for Island Countries. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50197-0_6

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