"FLYSAFE "

3rd - 5th February 1999
Eckberg Castle, Dresden
Germany
 

The environmental and energetic needs for the future require the development of technically and economically sophisticated mobile and stationary energy storage systems as the central issue for a rational use of energy and the reduction of CO2. An integrated flywheel/motor-generator system appears to be a feasible mean to meet the ecological and economical challenges of the future. For a successful application of such high-technology flywheel energy storage systems, an extraordinary safety level has to be developed in order to fulfill the high safety standards in public transport as well as in stationary energy storage applications. The development and increase of know how concerning system safety and certification requirements is the critical issue and bottleneck for the flywheel technology.
The objectives of the Flywheel-Safety-Workshop "FLYSAFE" are to combine knowledge of different researcher and developer groups and companies, to identify the key technologies for the safety of high speed energy storage systems and to evaluate the certification requirements, that are essential for any near to market product.
Therefore, the central issues will be:
 - to initiate a world-wide database containing information on flywheel safety projects, activities and present applications
 - to give an overview of worldwide safety programs in order to exchange experiences of current world-wide research projects
 - to provide a technical platform, where the modeling and simulation of rotor burst and containment events as well as risk analysis methods are discussed
 - to examine the political side of flywheel safety developments concerning legislation and certification procedures as well as adapted test standards and certifying organizations

The FLYSAFE-Consortium group of

ASPES AG (CH),
BMW AG (DE),
Centrum for Construction and Mechatronics (NL),
Fiat Research Centre (IT),
Institute of Lightweight Structures and Polymer Technology (DE)

is pleased to invite all research and development scientists, engineers, specialists
from Industries and Universities to participate in the FLYSAFE-Workshop.
 

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Workshop Programme:    3rd February    4th February   5th February

Proceedings: