On a Flywheel-Based Regenerative Braking System for Regenerative Energy\n Recovery

This paper presents a unique flywheel-based regenerative energy recovery,\nstorage and release system developed at the author's laboratory. It can recover\nand store regenerative energy produced by braking a motion generator with\nintermittent rotary velocity such as the rotor of a wind turbogenerator subject\nto intermittent intake wind and the axels of electric and hybrid gas-electric\nvehicles during frequent coasting and braking. Releasing of the stored\nregenerative energy in the flywheel is converted to electricity by the attached\nalternator. A proof-of-concept prototype called the SJSU-RBS was designed,\nbuilt and tested by author's students with able assistance of a technical staff\nin his school.\n