Development of a Smart Supercapacitor Energy Storage System for Aircraft Electric Power Systems

This paper presents the development of a supercapacitor energy storage system (ESS) aimed to minimize weight, which is very important for aerospace applications, whilst integrating smart functionalities like voltage monitoring, equalization, and overvoltage protection cells. The methodology selecting cells type/size detailed achieve safest most energy-dense ESS. Additionally, interface electronics cells’ monitoring presented. proposed design implements modular distributed architecture coordinated using communication buses wirings associated complexity enable reconfiguration expansions, as well fault diagnoses. Validating ESS has been done via experimental testing results are presented discussed.