Flexible Infrastructure Flywheel Energy System (FIFES)

This Phase II proposal seeks to leverage previously developed Flexible Infrastructure (FI) concepts and support development of innovative technologies to address ONR mission area interests including energy storage and power delivery for “High Energy Weapons and Sensors” (HEWS), other high energy systems, and Next Generation Integrated Power Systems (NGIPS).Building on previous SBIR developments, GTS will apply FI innovations to conduct research, analysis, requirements definition and refinement of their existing flywheel-based energy storage and power delivery system to support ONR interests. Requirement definition and design analysis will specifically address necessary technical elements of shipboard integration and marinization of a multi-flywheel-based solution for combatant ship deployment. Elements include system design definition for HEWS power delivery including pulse load profiles, energy storage, voltage interfaces for shipboard and weapons input and output power, slew rates, rotational speeds, safety and containment, thermal control, reliability, maintainability, shipboard environment and integration. This effort will deliver requirements analysis, design and design feasibility demonstration through simulation of a Flexible Infrastructure Flywheel Energy System (FIFES).