Chapter 1 Generalities on Energy Storage Chapter 2 ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS Chapter 3 Comparative Ratings and Properties Chapter 4 Electrochemical Energy Storage Chapter 5 Energy Storage by Means of Supercapacitors Chapter 6 Energy Storage Systems Based on Compressed Air Chapter 7 Hydropower and Gravitational Storage Facilities Chapter 8 Flywheel Systems Chapter 9 Energy Storage Based on Hydrogen Chapter 10 System Arrangements and Applications Appendix A Power Electronics: Basic Circuits and Principles Appendix B Energy and the Integration of Power
Biography
Alfred Rufer has been a full professor and head of the industrial Electronics Laboratory EPFL since 1996. He received the M.S. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1976. In 1978 he joined ABB where he was involved in the fields of high-power electronics and control. In 1993 he became an Assistant Professor at EPFL. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 publications on power electronics and applications, and he holds several patents. He was elected to the IEEE Fellow grade in 2006. Dr. Rufer's research activities focus on one hand on power converters as modular multilevel converters in asymmetric or hybrid technologies, and energy storage. Recently he has presented research for low aging, easy to recycle, hybrid energy storage device based on compressed air.
