614 Research on Flywheel Energy Recovery System for Automobile

Abstract

This paper describes a mechanical energy recovery system with flywheel and CVT. In recent years, greenhouse effect is brought to international attention, which is closely related to cars. Improvement of the car which discharges greenhouse gas is desired. And so, in order to achieve hybrid vehicle we studied energy recovery system, which used the flywheel and CVT. We studied the effectiveness of energy recovery experiment using a real vehicle, but it's energy efficiency was smaller than assumed one. In this study, in order to achieve the efficiency improvement, we clear up the cause of low efficiency. Especially to examination Flywheel Energy Recovery System only, we built the testing system. By the experiment we revealed the characteristic of system and the problem of CVT.