Dynamic analysis of composite flywheel energy storage rotor

Abstract

Dynamic analysis is a key problem of flywheel energy storage system (FESS). In this paper, a one-dimensional finite element model of anisotropic composite flywheel energy storage rotor is established for the composite FESS, and the dynamic characteristics such as natural frequency and critical speed are calculated. Through the analysis of acceleration transient response, it is found that the flywheel rotor have two critical speeds during acceleration or deceleration process, which are prone to resonance and damage the bearing. Therefore, in order to avoid resonance or reduce resonance peak, the influence of bearing support stiffness, damping and speed-up rate on the critical speed and resonance peak is studied. The calculation results show that the first two order critical speed are affected by the support stiffness. When the stiffness increases, the critical speed of the flywheel rotor increases, but the growth rate decreases. When the damping increases, the critical speed is basically not affected, and the vibration amplitude decreases rapidly. In addition, the resonance peak value of transient response can be effectively reduced by increasing the speed-up rate.