"Energy Storage in the Emerging Era of Smart Grids" ed. by Rosario Carbone

The main goal of the book is to give a date overview on: (i) basic and well proven energy storage systems, (ii) recent advances on technologies for improving the effectiveness of energy storage devices, (iii) practical applications of energy storage, in the emerging era of smart grids.

A non exhaustive list of benefits of the energy storage properly located on modern power systems with DG could be as follows: it can increase voltage control, frequency control and stability of power systems, it can reduce outages, it can allow the reduction of spinning reserves to meet peak power demands, it can reduce congestion on the transmission and distributions grids, it can release the stored energy when energy is most needed and expensive, it can improve power quality or service reliability for customers with high value processes or critical operations and so on.

Contents
Preface
Part 1 Energy Storage Systems
1 Electrochemical Energy Storage
2 Supercapacitor-Based Electrical Energy Storage System
3 Rotor Design fbr High-Speed Flywheel Energy Storage Systems
4 An Application of Genetic Fuzzy Systems to the Operation Planning of Hydrothermal Systems
5 Lightning Energy: A Lab Scale System
6 Fabrication and Characterization of MicroPCMs
7 Energy Storage and Transduction in Mitochondria
Part 2 Technologies fbr Improving Energy Storage Systems
8 Bidirectional DC-DC Converters fbr Energy Storage Systems
9 Bi-Directional PC - PC Converters fbr Batterv Buffers with Supercapacitor
10 Bio-Inspired Synthesis of Electrode Materials fbr Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
11 Thioether Bond Containing Polymers as Novel Cathode Active Materials fbr Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
12 Nanostructured Mn02 fbr Electrochemical Capacitor
13 High Temperature PEM Fuel Cells Based on Nafion®/Si02 Composite Membrane
Part 3 Practical Applications of Energy Storage
14 Energy Storage fbr Balancing a Local Pistribution Network Area
15 Sizing and Management of Energy Storage fbr a 100% Renewable Supp ly in Large Electric Systems
16 Complementary Control of Inter mittently Operating Renewable Sources with Short- and Long-Term Storage Plants
17 Practical Application of Electrical Energy Storage System in Industry
18 Predictive Optimal Matrix Converter Control fbr a Pynamic Voltage Restorer with Flywheel Energy Storage
19 Unified Power Flow Controllers Without Energy Storage: Pesigning Power Controllers fbr the Matrix Converter Solution
20 The Benefits of Pevice Level Short Term Energy Storage in Ocean Wave Energy Converters
21 A New On-Board Energy Storage System fbr the Rolling Stock