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    The gyro bus is an electric bus that uses a large flywheel instead of batteries or overhead wires to store energy. The flywheel spins up to 3000 RPM and provides power to the bus between charging stops, which took 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Gyro buses in the 1940s could travel 5-6 km between charges. While unable to gain widespread adoption, gyro bus technology could potentially be revived today with improvements in materials and power electronics allowing faster charging.

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    The gyro bus is an electric bus that uses a large flywheel instead of batteries or overhead wires to store energy. The flywheel spins up to 3000 RPM and provides power to the bus between charging stops, which took 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Gyro buses in the 1940s could travel 5-6 km between charges. While unable to gain widespread adoption, gyro bus technology could potentially be revived today with improvements in materials and power electronics allowing faster charging.

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    The gyro bus is an electric bus that uses a large flywheel instead of batteries or overhead wires to store energy. The flywheel spins up to 3000 RPM and provides power to the bus between charging stops, which took 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Gyro buses in the 1940s could travel 5-6 km between charges. While unable to gain widespread adoption, gyro bus technology could potentially be revived today with improvements in materials and power electronics allowing faster charging.

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    The gyro bus is an electric bus that uses a large flywheel instead of batteries or overhead wires to store energy. The flywheel spins up to 3000 RPM and provides power to the bus between charging stops, which took 30 seconds to 3 minutes. Gyro buses in the 1940s could travel 5-6 km between charges. While unable to gain widespread adoption, gyro bus technology could potentially be revived today with improvements in materials and power electronics allowing faster charging.

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    SYNOPSIS ON GYRO BUS

    Submitted by : Auvas Jalalee(8802)


    A Gyro bus is an electric bus that uses flywheel
    energy storage, not overhead wires like a
    trolleybus.
    The name comes from the Greek language
    term for flywheel, gyros.
    HYSTORY
    • The concept of a flywheel
    powered bus was developed
    and brought to originality
    during the 1940s by Oerlikon
    (of Switzerland), with the
    intention of creating an
    alternative to battery-electric
    buses for quieter, where full
    overhead-wire electrification
    could not be justified.
    WORKING PRINCIPLE
    Rather than carrying an internal combustion
    engine or batteries, or connecting to overhead
    power lines, a gyro bus carries a large flywheel
    that is spun at up to 3,000 RPM by a "squirrel
    cage” motor/generator.
    FLYWHEEL

    The flywheel was positioned in the center of the chassis


    between the axles This disc weighing 1.5t and with a
    diameter of 1.6m was enclosed in an airtight chamber
    filled with hydrogen gas at a reduced pressure of 0.7 b to
    lower “air” resistance. The flywheel would spin at a
    maximum of 3000rpm
    CONTACT BLADES
    Power for charging the
    flywheel was sourced by
    means of three contact
    blades mounted on the
    vehicle’s roof, which
    contacted charging points
    located as required or
    where appropriate ( at
    passenger stops end root
    ort at terminals for
    instance).
    • Charging a flywheel took between 30 seconds and
    3 minutes; in an effort to reduce the charge time,
    the supply voltage was increased from 380 volts to
    500 volts.
    • Given the relatively restricted range
    between charges, it is likely that several charging
    stops would have been required on longer routes,
    or in dense urban traffic.
    • To obtain tractive power, capacitors would
    excite the flywheel charging motor(Electric
    motor generator) so that it become a
    generator , in this way transforming the energy
    stored in the flywheel back into electricity.
    • In normal operation the flywheel could slow down from its
    initial 3000 rpm to 2100 rpm. In emergencies the speed
    could further be reduced to 1500 rpm, but this would
    negatively affect the performance of the vehicle. Below this
    speed a proper functioning of the transmission could no
    longer be guaranteed.
    • Under normal conditions, the Gyro bus could cover S to
    6km between charges (taking stops and traffic into
    account). A charge would then take two to five minutes.
    • In idle mode, the flywheel could continue spinning for
    more than ten hours.
    • A recharge from standstill could take 22 minutes.
    CONCLUSION
    • One of the main obstacles facing the Gyro bus was its inability to gain a firm
    market presence and so cut down manufacturing costs through economy of
    scale.
    • In today's environment, many of the factors that disadvantaged the Gyro
    bus have changed.
    • Fuel prices are rising and concerns over pollution and smog have led to
    experiments with such inefficient and dangerous storage technologies as
    hydrogen cells (which appear to be more in political favour than
    technologically sound).
    • Would a simpler, safer and more comfortable alternative not do the same in
    a friendlier manner?
    • Modern power electronics would help reduce power consumption
    whilst also enabling faster charging. Modern materials could help
    reduce the overall weight of the bus while retaining the required
    robustness. Maybe the Gyro bus is far from dead.

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