Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (5): 1946-1953.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2024.1172

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Analysis and design on stator heat dissipation of motor in flywheel energy storage system

Yifei WANG1,3(), Fan XU1,2, Liang WANG1,2,3, Xingjian DAI1,2,3(), Yujie XU1,2,3, Haisheng CHEN1,2,3()   

  1. 1.Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3.Key Laboratory of Long-Duration and Large-Scale Energy Storage(Chinese Academy of Sciences), Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2024-12-12 Revised:2025-02-15 Online:2025-05-28 Published:2025-05-21
  • Contact: Xingjian DAI, Haisheng CHEN E-mail:wangyifei@iet.cn;daixingjian@iet.cn;chen_hs@iet.cn

Abstract:

To address the stator cooling challenges in the 500 kW flywheel energy storage motor, a spiral water jacket was installed on the outside of the stator. By simplifying the heat source and heat transfer model, an equivalent composite heat exchange model was established to optimize the liquid cooling design of the motor stator. Numerical simulations were conducted to validate the design, and the internal temperature distribution of the stator and friction resistance of the water jacket were calculated. When either the channel height or the channel width is fixed, increasing the other dimension increases the channel width or height, resulting in a reduced pressure drop and increased stator temperature. The optimized water channel dimensions establish critical operational limits, requiring the coolant flow rate and temperature to remain below certain values to meet the stator temperature requirements. Increasing the design temperature rise of the cooling water slightly decreased the maximum allowable inlet temperature of the cooling water. This simple and efficient design method provides a reference for the development of stator cooling systems for flywheel energy storage applications.

Key words: flywheel energy storage, motor stator, design of heat dissipation, water jacket, temperature, pressure loss

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