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ELECTROMECHANICAL FLYWHEEL WITH AN ARTIFICIAL (CAPACITIVE) MOMENT OF INERTIA

DOI: 10.46573/2658-7459-2021-1-58-63

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Authors

I.P. Popov

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to develop an artificial capacitive flywheel with the ability to automatically control the moment of inertia. The device, which has an artificial moment of inertia, can have a significantly low weight and be used instead of massive flywheels. The device constructively can be made in the form of a direct current electric machine of independent excitation or a valve electric machine, in the armature circuit of which a capacitor is included. A mechanical device interacting with an electromagnetic flywheel, which has an artificial moment of inertia, «does not distinguish» it from a flywheel with a «natural» moment of inertia, while the idealized version of the former does not have gravitational mass. Artificial or capacitive moment of inertia functionally depends on electromagnetic quantities – capacitance and magnetic induction, which creates the possibility of its automatic regulation.

Keywords

mass, moment of inertia, electric machine, capacitor.