Energy Storage Technologies

Description

Introduction to the energy storage systems (ESS) - Different types of batteries - Charging and discharging cycles of batteries - Supper capacitors - Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) - Fuel cells - Flywheels Energy Storage - Hydroelectricity and pumped storage - Thermal storage systems - Integration of the ESS - Applications of ESS - Long term power smoothing of intermittent energy resources using ESS - Short term power smoothing of intermittent energy resources using ESS

Program

Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Control Engineering (160)

Objectives

• Enrich the student’s basic background concept of electrical storage elements. • Develop the student ability to recognize and analyze different energy storage technologies. • Train student to model batteries. Ultracapacitors, SMES during charge and discharge. • Select propoer EES for a given application.