A study of the status and future of superconducting magnetic energy storage in power systems

Abstract

Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems offering flexible, reliable, and fast acting power compensation are applicable to power systems to improve power system stabilities and to advance power qualities. The authors have summarized researches on SMES applications to power systems. Furthermore, various SMES applications to power systems have been described briefly and some crucial schematic diagrams and equations are given. In addition, this study presents valuable suggestions for future studies of SMES applications to power systems. Hence, this paper is helpful for co-researchers who want to know about the status of SMES applications to power systems.

Smart Superconducting Grid

“…This variant of grid is also designed specifically for renewable and CO 2 emissions-free sources of energy. It will be equipped with natural for the system energy storage in liquid hydrogen tanks and superconducting magnetic energy storage systems [17]. There is a hope that such self-controlled network delivering both liquid hydrogen end electricity may eventually become the reality of the fossil fuels-free energy economy.…”

Overview of energy storage technologies for renewable energy systems

“…2.10.1 SMES In a SMES system (Xue et al, 2006), energy is stored in the magnetic fi eld produced when direct current fl ows through a superconducting coil. For this to happen, the superconducting material of the coil must be cooled adequately so as to show no resistance to the fl ow of current, enabling the unit to store energy in the magnetic fi eld.…”

Techno-Economic Analysis of Different Energy Storage Technologies

“…This document aims to review the state-of-the-art development of EES technologies including PHS [18,21], Compressed Air Energy Storage system (CAES) [22][23][24][25][26], Battery [27][28][29][30][31], Flow Battery [14][15]20,32], Fuel Cell [33][34], Solar Fuel [15,35], Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage system (SMES) [36][37][38], Flywheel [32,[39][40][41], Capacitor and Supercapacitor [15,39], and Thermal Energy Storage system (TES) [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. Some of them are currently available and some are still under development.…”