Dynamic Modelling on Energy Storage System of High Speed Flywheel for Powertrain of Fuel Economy in City Bus

The city buses start and stop frequently, therefore significant amount of kinetic energy is wasted on friction plates. In order to retrieve this amount of energy, various feasible and efficient energy storage systems have been suggested by researchers to reuse the energy to improve the efficiency of the city bus. Due to small size, high energy density, cleanliness and easiness to absorb/reuse the energy, the storage system of flywheel is hopeful to be coming into wide use. In this paper, a dynamic model is analyzed to study the characteristics of the system using time series. Finally, comparison between simulation and experiment is given.