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 2019-01 | 2 |
Joni Markkula Antti Rautiainen |
Written literature work, laboratory demonstration with prelab-exercises and final exam. |
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. |
Study material
| Type | Name | Author | ISBN | URL | Additional information | Examination material |
| Summary of lectures | Electrical Energy Storages and Electric Vehicles | Antti Rautiainen, Kai Vuorilehto, Antti Supponen, Jenni Rekola, Jukka Mäkinen | The material is published online. | Yes |
Prerequisites
| Course | Mandatory/Advisable | Description |
| DEE-11011 Sähköenergiajärjestelmät | Mandatory | 1 |
| DEE-23106 Fundamentals of Electrical and Power Engineering | Mandatory | 1 |
1 . Prerequisites in Finnish or in English.
Additional information about prerequisites
Fundamentals of electrical energy systems either in Finnish or English.
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses