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This section describes the process for designing a flywheel energy storage system. The first step was selecting the rotor material, which was determined to be 300M alloy steel due to its high strength, availability, and low cost. The rotor volume was then calculated to store 500kJ of energy. An optimization was then conducted to determine the best stator design for different rotor configurations and operating points to minimize losses during full power operation.

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This section describes the process for designing a flywheel energy storage system. The first step was selecting the rotor material, which was determined to be 300M alloy steel due to its high strength, availability, and low cost. The rotor volume was then calculated to store 500kJ of energy. An optimization was then conducted to determine the best stator design for different rotor configurations and operating points to minimize losses during full power operation.

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CHAPTER 6

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION
6.1 Flywheel Design Process

This section describes the steps used in the design of the flywheel energy storage system. The
rotor design process is discussed, and then the optimization process for the stator and the
selection of bearing stiffness are presented.

6.1.1 Rotor Design


Rotor Material Selection
The first step in the design process was the selection of the material for the rotor. Since
an integrated flywheel configuration had been chosen, the desired rotor material would
have to be magnetically permeable and have a high strength-to-weight ratio. These two
requirements limit the choices to one of a number of high strength steel alloys, such as
AerMet 100, AF1410, H11, 300M, Maraging 250, and AISI 4340. These are all different
alloys of steel that can be hardened to ultimate strengths in excess of 290ksi, and they are
generally used in very demanding aerospace applications, such as aircraft landing gear.
Since the ultimate strength for the alloys is similar, the 38 chief differentiators are their
fatigue properties and fracture toughness. Ultimately, 300M alloy steel was selected for
the rotor. The low alloy steel 300M is very similar to AISI 4340 in composition and can
be hardened to an ultimate strength of 2.0GP a (290ksi) and has a fatigue strength of
1.0GP a (145ksi) for over 1 million cycles. It was chosen because of its high strength,
availability, and relatively low cost.

Rotor Volume
The next step was to calculate the necessary rotor volume to achieve the goal of 500kJ
(140W · hr) of energy storage. Although the rotor has poles cut into the upper and lower
parts, the moment-of-inertia is only smaller than that of a cylinder by less than 10%,
depending on the exact rotor profile and length of the pole areas. Therefore, in estimating
the rotor dimensions it is appropriate to assume that the rotor is cylindrical.
6.1.2 Design Optimization
Using the above criteria, a range of rotors was selected and an optimization was
conducted to find the best stator design for each rotor. The goal of the optimization was
to find, given a rotor of a particular aspect ratio, the best stator design, rotor design, and
operating point to minimize losses at the worst-case full-power operation.

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