Wu, W;
Partridge, JS;
Bucknall, RWG;
(2018)
Simulation of a stabilised control strategy for PEM fuel cell and supercapacitor hybrid propulsion system for a city bus.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
, 43
(42)
pp. 19763-19777.
10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.09.004.
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Abstract
Fuel Cells (FC) are a clean energy source capable of powering a bus electrically with zero operating emissions. This research investigates the potential of FC and Supercapacitor (SC) hybrid buses for clean city transportation. To investigate the FC/SC hybridisation strategy, a scaled FC/SC hybrid drivetrain has been developed to provide the power system of a scaled bus model. The scaled model was developed as a MATLAB Simulink computer model and cross referenced against the constructed laboratory test rig for validation. A novel control strategy focusing on power balancing between the FC, the SC and the load has been developed and validated in the computer model. It has been demonstrated in both the test rig and computer simulation that the proposed control strategy is capable of maintaining a controlled and stable FC output while meeting different bus load regimes. The validated computer model can provide a reliably representative, convenient and low cost platform for further performance investigation and component optimisation of FC/SC hybrid drivetrains. The control strategy has also been demonstrated to be function as expected after scaling up the developed scaled model to a full scale model which can be used for simulation of practical bus performance.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Simulation of a stabilised control strategy for PEM fuel cell and supercapacitor hybrid propulsion system for a city bus |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.09.004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.09.004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Hydrogen Energy Publications LLC. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Fuel cell, Supercapacitor, Hybrid propulsion, Energy management, Simulink |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Mechanical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056095 |
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