Energy Storage: Systems and Components

ISBN-13: 9781138082625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 274 str.

Alfred Rufer

Opis

This book provides system performances and properties of different energy storage means and is helpful for electrical engineers, students, and other relevant practitioners to understand and design energy storage systems. 

Spis treści

1. Generalities on Energy Storage 2. Energy Storage Systems 3. Comparative Ratings and Properties 4. Electrochemical Energy Storage 5. Energy Storage by Means of Supercapacitors 6. Energy Storage Systems Based on Compressed Air 7. Hydropower and Pumped Storage Facilities 8. Flywheel Systems 9. Energy Storage Based on Hydrogen 10. System Arrangements and Applications Appendix A: Power Electronics—Basic Circuits and Principles

O autorze

Alfred Rufer (1951) received the M.S. degree from  the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1976.  In 1978 he joined ABB where he was involved in the fields of high power electronics and control.  In 1993 he became an Assistant Professor at EPFL.  Since 1996, he has been a full professor and head of the industrial Electronics Laboratory EPFL.  He has authored or coauthored more than 200 publications on power electronics and applications, and he holds several patents.  Alfred Rufer's research activities focus on one hand on power converters as modular multilevel converters in asymmetric or hybrid technologies.  Another important field initiated by Alfred Rufer is dedicated to energy storage, where many applications have been studied.  Other new developments have recently been presented, for example a low aging, easy to recycle, hybrid energy storage device based on compressed air.  In 2006, Alfred Rufer was elected to the IEEE Fellow grade.