Monday, March 2, 2009

KERS : KINETIC ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM

The Flybrid Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) is a very small and light device that meets the FIA regulations for the 2009 season.






The key system features are:

A flywheel made of steel and carbon fibre which rotates at over 60,000 RPM inside an evacuated chamber
The flywheel casing features containment to avoid the escape of any debris in the unlikely event of a flywheel failure
The flywheel is connected to the transmission of the car on the output side of the gearbox via several fixed ratios, a clutch and the CVT
60 kW power transmission in either storage or recovery
400 kJ of usable storage (after accounting for internal losses)
A total system weight of 24 kg
A total packaging volume of 13 litres

source: http://www.flybridsystems.com/F1System.html

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