Design and Optimization of Flywheel Energy Storage System for Rail Transit

Abstract

At present, the urban rail transit system has problems such as energy waste in the braking process and unstable grid voltage in the start-stop state. Aiming at the problems caused by the start-stop state of rail transit, considering the energy saving and voltage stability requirements of system energy management, a flywheel energy storage system (FESS) specially used for rail transit is designed. The energy system (FESS) can feed back the braking energy stored by the flywheel to the urban rail train power system when the rail train starts to cause the voltage and frequency of the traction microgrid to change. This paper proposes a flywheel energy management system based on a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), which can realize efficient energy management through efficient control of the flywheel side motor. The flywheel side permanent magnet synchronous motor adopts an improved flywheel speed expansion energy storage control strategy based on current feedforward control to improve the fast response capability of the flywheel, ensuring the output power of the flywheel at high speed. In addition, a specific multi-threshold voltage single FESS control strategy is suggested, which improves the energy-saving and voltage-stabilizing performance of the system.