TY - GEN
T1 - Fuel cell output power-oriented control for a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle
AU - He, Hong Wen
AU - Gao, Jian Ping
AU - Zhang, Ya Ming
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Under the pressure of air pollution and oil shortage of transportations, hydrogen as a renewable and clean energy gets more and more attentions from all over the world. There predicts that the 21st century will be a hydrogen century. Nowadays, for the cost and not matured technology of fuel cell stack, hybrid system becomes the best solution. For a 5-ton fuel cell hybrid electric bus discussed in this paper, high-pressure PEMFC and high-power NiMH battery pack forms the hybrid system. In order to obtain the higher fuel efficiency and avoid the frequent charge & discharge of battery pack, a fuel cell output power-oriented control system is built. Also two kinds of control strategies for the control system are put forward as conventional Fuel cell output power oriented control, Fuel cell output power oriented control based on FCE loading and unloading equations. Their corresponding effects are compared based on simulation results. Finally, the fuel cell output power-oriented control system was applied on the fuel cell hybrid electric bus and the experiments are carried out. The Experimental results indicate that the fuel cell output power can follow the driver's requirement very well and the hybrid bus has a good hydrogen economy.
AB - Under the pressure of air pollution and oil shortage of transportations, hydrogen as a renewable and clean energy gets more and more attentions from all over the world. There predicts that the 21st century will be a hydrogen century. Nowadays, for the cost and not matured technology of fuel cell stack, hybrid system becomes the best solution. For a 5-ton fuel cell hybrid electric bus discussed in this paper, high-pressure PEMFC and high-power NiMH battery pack forms the hybrid system. In order to obtain the higher fuel efficiency and avoid the frequent charge & discharge of battery pack, a fuel cell output power-oriented control system is built. Also two kinds of control strategies for the control system are put forward as conventional Fuel cell output power oriented control, Fuel cell output power oriented control based on FCE loading and unloading equations. Their corresponding effects are compared based on simulation results. Finally, the fuel cell output power-oriented control system was applied on the fuel cell hybrid electric bus and the experiments are carried out. The Experimental results indicate that the fuel cell output power can follow the driver's requirement very well and the hybrid bus has a good hydrogen economy.
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U2 - 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586558
DO - 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586558
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52649111683
SN - 9781424420797
T3 - Proceedings of the American Control Conference
SP - 605
EP - 610
BT - 2008 American Control Conference, ACC
T2 - 2008 American Control Conference, ACC
Y2 - 11 June 2008 through 13 June 2008
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