Improving power quality--on the fly.Flywheel energy storage Flywheel Energy Storage (FES) works by accelerating a rotor (flywheel) to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy. The energy is converted back by slowing down the flywheel. systems store kinetic energy kinetic energy: see energy. kinetic energy Form of energy that an object has by reason of its motion. The kind of motion may be translation (motion along a path from one place to another), rotation about an axis, vibration, or any combination of by constantly spinning a compact rotor in a low-friction environment. When short-term back-up power is required (i.e., when utility power fluctuates or is lost), the rotor's inertia inertia (ĭnûr`shə), in physics, the resistance of a body to any alteration in its state of motion, i.e., the resistance of a body at rest to being set in motion or of a body in motion to any change of speed or change in direction of allows it to continue spinning and the resulting kinetic energy is converted to electricity. Read how innovative battery-free systems are providing unsurpassed power quality and backup to critical applications on paper processing equipment. |
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