Electrical Energy Storages and Electric Vehicles, 5 cr

Core content

• Introduction to energy storage. Why storage of electricity and energy in general is an important topic for the future.
• Overview of battery technology: primary and secondary batteries, basic battery characteristics, conventional secondary battery technologies (lead-acid, Ni-MH etc.), introduction to lithium-ion technology.
  
• Lithium-ion battery technology for electrical engineers: operation principle and main components of a lithium-ion cell, positive electrode materials, negative electrode materials, other components like electrolytes and separators, safety aspects, lithium-ion battery systems, battery management systems, balancing systems.
  
• Overview of other energy storage types: super capacitors (double-layer capacitors), superconducting magnet energy storages (SMES), flywheels, hydrogen + fuel cells.
  
• Introduction of electric vehicles: what are EVs, different types of EVs, the main benefits of EVs and their motivation, the main barriers and obstacles of EVs.
  
• State-of-the-art EV technologies: charging technologies for passenger cars, buses, other types of vehicles, battery technology in EVs, what kind of technological solutions are used in EVs and why.
• EVs in power systems and smart grids: Charging load of EVs in distribution networks, EVs as controllable loads and electricity storages for the needs of the electrical energy system.
  

Complementary knowledge

• Examples of electricity storage applications: solar power + storage = enabler of a 100% solar energy system, power system reserves, novel options/enhancements for conventional distribution network assets like lines, domestic back-up power, optimization of electricity trade in the wholesale electricity market, energy carrier for clean transportation, electric vehicles.
  
• Future prospects of battery technology development, novel battery technologies.
• Battery manufacturing.
• Heat storages.
• Energy and environmental aspects of the transportation system, present market development.
• Charging infrastructure point-of-views, where and what kind of infra should be constructed, charging business/value chain perspectives.