Building a superconducting energy storage simulation model

What is a superconducting magnetic energy storage system?

Superconducting magnetic energy storage system can store electric energy in a superconducting coil without resistive losses, and release its stored energy if required [9, 10]. Most SMES devices have two essential systems: superconductor system and power conditioning system (PCS).

Which SMEs scheme is suitable for energy storage?

Besides the sole SMES scheme with full energy storage scale, three feasible application schemes of SMES should also be considered. The sole SMES scheme has one advantage of high storage efciency for large-scale energy storage, while it has two advantages of fast response speed and high power density for small-scale energy storage.

What are electromagnetic energy storage systems?

In practice, the electromagnetic energy storage systems consist of electric-energy-based electrochemical double-layer capacitor (EDLC), which is also called super capacitor or ultra capacitor, and magnetic-energy-based superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES).

What is a circuit-field-superconductor coupled SMEs energy exchange model?

A novel circuit-field-superconductor coupled SMES energy exchange model is built and verified to bridge the applied superconductivity field to the electrical engineering and power system fields.

What are the advantages of small-scale energy storage (SMES)?

has two advantages of fast response speed and high power density for small-scale energy storage. But both the large-scale and small-scale SMES devices are suffered from high capital cost as compared to other commercial ESSs with the same capacity.

What is SMEs-based hybrid energy storage system (Hess)?

The SMES-based hybrid energy storage system (HESS) scheme reduces the required energy storage capacity of SMES, but the practical system topologies and relevant control strategies of HESS are more complex over the sole SMES.