599 results about "Regenerative energy" patented technology

A power system for an electric motor drive such as may be used in an electrically propelled vehicle incorporates the combination of a high power density battery and a high energy density battery to provide an optimal combination of high energy and high power, i.e., a hybrid battery system. The hybrid battery system in one form includes components which prevent electrical recharge energy from being applied to the high energy density battery while capturing regenerative energy in the high power density battery so as to increase an electric vehicle's range for a given amount of stored energy. A dynamic retarding function for absorbing electrical regenerative energy is used during significant vehicle deceleration and while holding speed on down-hill grades, to minimize mechanical brake wear and limit excessive voltage on the battery and power electronic control devices. The high energy density battery coupled in circuit with a boost converter, a high power density battery, a dynamic retarder, and an AC motor drive circuit. The hybrid battery system is controlled by a hybrid power source controller which receives signals from a vehicle system controller using current and voltage sensors to provide feedback parameters for the closed-loop hybrid battery control functions.

An electromechanical system and system are provided where a controller generates an electrical drive signal for an actuator using power from a power source. A capacitor stores electrical energy and avails the stored energy to the controller when a voltage potential of the store electrical energy is higher than the supply voltage of the power source. The stored electrical energy may originate from the power source and/or regenerative energy produced by the actuator.

Smooth, preferably variable-sweep fluid collection device surfaces disposed into opposition with wind, river, surf, ocean or tidal currents generate enhanced velocity fluid flows at length driven into onboard work-extracting disc turbines at advantageous angles of attack. Keyed to shafts turning freely through optionally extendable volutes, disc turbines comprising a dense population of smooth, axially fixed or adjustably spaced discs conducting preferably laminar flow between adjacent elements develop significant torque through boundary layer adhesion and viscous shear-stress between fluid layers. Exhaust of disc turbine throughput into divergent channels drafting into external currents of initially higher than ambient velocity and lower pressure may reduce turbine discharge backpressure, rapidly clear system throughput, and allow normally disadvantageous drag to be utilized to develop greater work generation. Gainfully turning with, instead of at odds to natural or anthropogenic currents provided, disc turbines utilized as disclosed may provide unprecedented renewable energy from fluids in motion.

A system for capturing regenerative energy includes a battery configured to provide power for a traction motor and other operations of a vehicle and a capacitor connected to the battery. An auxiliary motor is configured to operate as a generator during a regenerative energy operation. The system further includes a controller configured to direct the regenerative energy to the capacitor during the regenerative energy operation and discharge the capacitor to provide power to the traction motor or for the other operations of the vehicle.

Power transfer rate at a charging facility can be maximized by employing a feedback scheme. The state of charge (SOC) and temperature of the regenerative energy storage system (RESS) pack of a vehicle is monitored to determine the load due to the RESS pack. An optimal frequency that cancels the imaginary component of the input impedance for the output signal from a grid converter is calculated from the load of the RESS pack, and a frequency offset f* is made to the nominal frequency f₀ of the grid converter output based on the resonance frequency of a magnetically coupled circuit. The optimal frequency can maximize the efficiency of the power transfer. Further, an optimal grid converter duty ratio d* can be derived from the charge rate of the RESS pack. The grid converter duty ratio d* regulates wireless power transfer (WPT) power level.

A hydraulic energy storage system (comprising a hydraulic pump/motor, a high pressure hydraulic accumulator, a low pressure hydraulic accumulator/reservoir, and interconnecting hydraulic lines) is incorporated into a EV, HEV, or PHEV to provide hydraulic regenerative braking and propulsive assistance for the vehicle. Implementation of the low cost and long-lasting hydraulic energy storage system in the vehicle, together with the electric energy storage system (comprising a motor/generator and battery pack) of the vehicle, allows significantly reduced demands and higher operating efficiencies for the battery pack, thereby facilitating a more cost-effective, efficient and/or durable overall energy storage system for the vehicle.

The invention provides a fluid-dynamic renewable energy harvesting system which includes fluid-foil means for interfacing with a fluid current such as a water current or wind or both, and which includes energy harvesting means utilizing fluid current driven periodic motion of the fluid-foil means for capturing fluid-dynamic renewable energy and converting it into usable energy in a desired form such as electricity. The invention provides devices, methods and systems for harvesting renewable energy for small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale applications, to provide real and substantial benefits towards efficiently fulfilling energy needs while also more broadly serving humanity and our global environment. The various embodiments of the invention provide energy with zero consumption of fossil fuels and zero emissions of greenhouse gases, and some selectively sited embodiments can beneficially counter global warming induced ice melting.

A load-lifting apparatus has one or more prime power sources, one or more energy storage systems and regenerative braking. Regenerative energy is recovered when the load-lifting apparatus lowers its load. The elements of the prime power sources, energy storage devices and electrical components may be distributed to provide stability for the load-lifting apparatus. The general power architecture and energy recovery method can be applied to cranes, rubber-tired gantry cranes, overhead cranes, mobile cranes, ship-to-shore cranes, container cranes, rail-mounted gantry cranes, straddle carrier cranes and elevators. In such an architecture, the energy storage system helps alleviate the power rating requirement of the prime power source with respect to the peak power requirement for lifting a load.

A renewable energy, utility size electric power system is provided with a high voltage, renewable energy harvesting network connected by a direct current link to a centralized grid synchronized multiphase regulated current source inverter system. The harvesting network includes distributed renewable energy power optimizers and transmitters that control delivery of renewable energy to the grid synchronized multiphase regulated current source inverter system. A visual immersion monitoring and control system can be provided for a three-dimensional, visually-oriented, virtual reality display, command and control environment.

The invention provides a biodiesel-based alcoholic fuel oil, which consists of the following substances in percentage by mass: 20 to 50 percent of refined biodiesel, 40 to 80 percent of industrial methanol and 5 to 30 percent of additive, wherein the additive comprises 5 to 20 percent of solvent aid, 1 to 15 percent of cosurfactant, 0.2 to 2 percent of stabilizer and 0.1 to 1 percent of corrosion inhibitor. A preparation method comprises the following steps of: mixing the substances in percentage by mass, and stirring the mixture uniformly at normal temperature to obtain the fuel oil. The fuel oil has the advantages of low cost, high heat value and stable performance; the preparation method has the advantages of simple process, convenience and safety of use and good adaptability to the boiler; and compared with diesel oil, the fuel oil is economic and energy-saving, has low environmental pollution, is regenerative energy, and can be used as commercial oil for great popularization and use.

The invention discloses a self-balancing integrated application system of a solar energy-ground source heat pump, comprising an air conditioner end system, a ground source heat pump system, a hot water supply system, a solar energy heat-collection system and an automatic control system, wherein the ground source heat pump system comprises a ground buried pipe heat exchanger (6), a compressor (1),an indoor side heat exchanger (3) and an environment side heat exchanger (5), and the automatic control system is used for controlling all the automatic equipment in the self-balancing integrated application system of the solar energy-ground source heat pump. The invention can effectively realize the functions of cold and warm air conditioning and hot water supply, mainly can switch the working modes of the ground source heat pump and a solar energy hot water system automatically by the control system, thereby solving the problem of imbalance of the ground source heat pump in winter and summerand enhancing the utilization rate of regenerative energy (solar energy and geothermal energy) in energy used for construction to the maximum.

A multi-object comprehensive control energy conservation method of a subway power supply system fully recovers and utilizes the braking energy, and overcomes the shock to the electric network caused by the energy fed back instantaneously through part of the absorbed energy and the feedback energy. When energy is required for starting or accelerating the train within the power supply section, two parts of circuits are comprehensively controlled to release the excessive electric energy with the aim of maintaining the basic electric energy storage of the independent condenser banks. During the running process of the trains, the advanced algorithm is adopted for reasonable energy distribution, thereby achieving the purpose of the optimal performance of the entire system, improving the utilization factor of the recovered energy and enhancing the energy conservation effect. The control system further detects the harmonic wave and the reactive component of other non-traction load of the traction substation, triggers an AC/DC converter module to compensate for the harmonic wave and the reactive component of the part, and avoids the pollution of the electric network so as to further reduce the loss caused by the harmonic wave and realize the control of the multi-object comprehensive energy conservation.

Provided is a battery control system including a power generation unit that generates electric power from renewable energy as an energy source, a battery storing the electric power, a power generation amount estimation unit that estimates a generation amount of electric power generated by the power generation unit, based on estimation information in which a renewable energy amount available to the power generation unit is estimated, a power consumption amount estimation unit that estimates power consumption, a determination unit that determinates whether or not electric power is to be stored in the battery, based on a storage amount of the battery, the generation amount of electric power and the amount of power consumption, and a power acquisition unit that acquires electric power to be stored in the battery, when, as a result of determination by the determination unit, electric power is to be stored in the battery.

The invention belongs to the technical field of urban mass transit and particularly relates to an energy-saving method of train operation of the urban mass transit. The energy-saving method comprises the steps of 1, analyzing operation matching rules of adjacent trains and computing the size of utilized regeneration energy; 2, establishing an optimization model of the train operation by taking the utilized regeneration energy as the target; 3, solving the optimization model to obtain an energy-saving time table of the train operation of the urban mass transit. By means of the energy-saving method, energy consumption during train operation is reduced, and security of an overhead line system is improved. Furthermore, the energy-saving method has the advantages of (1) being high in operation speed and applicable to large-scale computer simulation by adopting an integer programming method; (2) considering comprehensive factors, being high in modeling accuracy and strong in applicability of the planned operation time table; (3) being capable of embedded into hardware of a train energy-saving driving auxiliary system in an online mode, easy to implement, low in cost and wide in application range.

An all wheel drive system for a motor vehicle in which wheel slippage is effectively controlled and regenerative energy is effectively stored for subsequent utilization in the system. A hydraulic embodiment of the invention includes a hydraulic motor, a pump, a tank, an accumulator for storing pressurized fluid, and a device for sensing system back pressure. In response to a loss of system back pressure the pressure of the fluid being supplied to the motor is reduced and the motor discharge is directed to the accumulator, and in response to a sensed resumption of system back pressure regenerative energy from the accumulator is directed to the motor to assist in powering the motor. An electric embodiment of the invention includes an electric motor, an electric generator, a device for storing electrical energy such as a battery pack or a capacitor bank, a DC tachometer driven by the motor and operative to sense the motor power requirements, and a directional circuit switch assembly. In response to a drop in the power requirements of the motor representing wheel slippage the energy supplied to the motor is reduced; in response to a sensed overrunning condition of the motor wherein the motor is functioning as a generator the output of the generator is routed to the energy storage device; and in response to a sensed resumption of motor power requirements regenerative energy is directed from the energy storage device to the motor to assist in powering of the motor.

The invention discloses a method for optimizing energy conservation of urban rail transit. The method includes steps of computing surplus energy; omitting optional adjustment if the surplus energy is lower than or equal to zero, and distributing the surplus energy by region controllers if the surplus energy is higher than zero; enabling other trains in the same sectors to compute idle running time according to the distributed surplus energy and running the other trains according to the idle running time; enabling the region controllers to judge whether the trains are braked in future time T or not; carrying out the steps again if the trains are braked in the future time T, and executing current running schemes if the trains are not braked in the future time T. According to the technical scheme, the method has the advantages that the surplus regenerated brake energy of the trains can be completely or partially absorbed by the next trains in the same power supply sectors, so that energy consumption can be reduced; local speed curves of the trains are equivalently adjusted, and the average speeds of the trains at adjustment stages are identical to original speeds of the trains; the surplus regenerated energy can be distributed in real time, and accordingly the practicality of the method can be improved.