DEE-54206 Electrical Energy Storages and Electric Vehicles, 5 cr
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Antti Rautiainen
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| DEE-54206 2018-01 | 2 |
Antti Rautiainen Antti Supponen |
Learning Outcomes
Students having taken the course are expected to have a comprehensive holistic understanding of electrical energy storage options, especially battery technology, and the most important foreseeable electricity storage applications, especially electric vehicles. The students will have a good understanding of lithium-ion battery technology.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Introduction to energy storage. Why storage of electricity and energy in general is an important topic for the future. | 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. | |
| 2. | 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. | Future prospects of battery technology development, novel battery technologies. | |
| 3. | 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. | Battery manufacturing. | |
| 4. | Overview of other energy storage types: super capacitors (double-layer capacitors), superconducting magnet energy storages (SMES), flywheels, hydrogen + fuel cells. | Heat storages. | |
| 5. | 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. | Energy and environmental aspects of the transportation system, present market development. | |
| 6. | 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. | Charging infrastructure point-of-views, where and what kind of infra should be constructed, charging business/value chain perspectives. | |
| 7. | 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. |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| DEE-11010 Sähköenergiajärjestelmät | Mandatory | 1 |
| DEE-23106 Fundamentals of Electrical and Power Engineering | Mandatory | 1 |
1 . Prerequisites in Finnish or in English.
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses