Experimental evaluation of a passive fuel cell/battery hybrid power system for an unmanned ground vehicle

González, Eduardo López; Cuesta, Jaime Sáenz; Vivas, F.J.; Llerena, Fernando Isorna; Carlini, Miguel Ángel Ridao; Bordons, Carlos; Hernández, Emili; Elfes, Alberto

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.10.107

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“…The most common hybridization topology for FCHEVs is a combination of FC + battery units (Type II) 139‐141 . In general, the FC is connected to the DC bus through a unidirectional DC‐DC converter (UDC) and the battery is connected to a bidirectional DC‐DC converter 142,143 .…”

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Optimization and cutting‐edge design of fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles

Luo

et al. 2021

Int J Energy Res

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Summary The transportation sector consumes a large amount of fossil fuels consequently exacerbating the global environmental and energy crisis. Fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs) are promising alternatives in the continuous transition to clean energy. This article summarizes the recent advances pertaining to the optimization and cutting‐edge design of fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles, especially the fuel cell + battery hybrid topology, and discusses current technological bottlenecks hindering the commercialization of FCHEVs. The development of HEVs, markets, environmental and economic benefits, components, topologies, energy management strategies, degradation mechanisms, and safety standards of FCHEVs are reviewed. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells constitute the mainstream and most mature fuel cell technology for automobile applications. Battery hybridization is currently favored among the available FCHEV topological designs to improve the dynamic response and recover the braking energy. Energy management strategies encompassing logic rule‐based simple methods, intelligent control methods, global optimization strategies, and local optimization strategies are described, and issues and challenges encountering FCHEVs are discussed. In addition to promoting the construction of hydrogen supply facilities, future efforts are expected to focus on solving problems such as the high cost, durability of fuel cells, cold start, lifetime of batteries, security and comfort, system optimization, energy management systems, integration, and diagnosis of faults. This review serves as a reference and guide for future technological development and commercialization of FCHEVs. Highlights Advances of the optimization and cutting‐edge design of FCHEVs are reviewed. Battery hybridization is currently favored among the available topological designs. Benefits, components, topologies, and energy management strategies are described. Markets, degradation mechanisms, and safety standards of FCHEVs are introduced. Technological bottlenecks hindering the commercialization of FCHEVs are discussed.

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Section: Topologiesmentioning

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Optimization and cutting‐edge design of fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles

Luo

et al. 2021

Int J Energy Res

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“…In most studies, the FC is proposed to be used with a single storage unit. The most used storages are the batteries and supercapacitors [93,94]. In some studies, the hybrid energy storage systems, combing multiple storage units of different types are also proposed to gather the advantages of different storages [95].…”

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A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

Zheng

et al. 2019

BMC Energy

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Since the last two decades, microgrid, as one typical structure in smart grid framework, has been receiving increasing attention in the world. Meanwhile, fuel cell (FC), as one promising power source, has redrawn the attention of both academia and industry since the beginning of 21th century. Some encouraging achievements in FC technology have been realized thanks to the efforts taken in the last years. Due to this, it is seen that FC, as a clean and efficient energy source, is penetrating into different fields. Among the applications, integrating FCs into microgrids has shown interesting advantages on improving the performance of microgrids and promoting the use of the hydrogen energy. Some ongoing projects have shown that FCs of different power scales can be integrated into microgrids smartly and in different manners. Along with the advantages carried by the combination of the two technologies, many challenges lying on multiple domains are faced in the process. The challenges can be from the FC, the microgrid, and the integration of these two technologies. In this review paper, the advantages of integrating FCs into microgrids are summarized after recalling the knowledge background of FC. The challenges and ongoing researches on FCs and FCs based microgrids are then reviewed. Based on the analysis, the research directions are then extracted in view of the challenges.

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“…Passive configurations with direct connections to the DC bus offer the advantages of lower losses, reduced cost and simpler architecture, lower weight, and volume. 222 Detailed investigations of the static and dynamic performance of hybrid systems are required to address integration challenges. 221 The difference in characteristics between the fuel cell and the battery makes the hybrid power system highly coupled and complicated.…”

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Renewable Energy for Robots and Robots for Renewable Energy – A Review

Hassan¹,

Habrouk²,

Deghedie³

2019

Robotica

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SUMMARY Fossil fuel sources are well suited to fulfill the energy needs of human beings. Unfortunately, there are some limitations and disadvantages pertaining to fossil fuels, some of which are drastic. The main issues are: firstly, there is a finite supply of these fuels, eventually this supply will be exhausted; secondly, burning fossil fuels contributes to global warming, leading to disastrous consequences for the environment and the health of humans. Switching to renewable energy sources is the viable solution to the aforementioned issues. Robots bring numerous benefits in a wide variety of applications. Introducing robots to production environments and other applications results in a remarkable improvement in terms of productivity and efficiency. In this paper, the integration between robots and renewable energy sources is discussed. In other words, two main points are investigated: (1) how can renewable energy be a viable source of energy for robots and (2) how can the renewable energy industry benefit from utilizing robots in the execution of renewable energy-related tasks. Some of the recent developments concerning the integration between robots and renewable energy are reviewed. In addition, more opportunities and expected advancements are also discussed.

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Experimental evaluation of a passive fuel cell/battery hybrid power system for an unmanned ground vehicle

Cited by 47 publications

References 29 publications

Optimization and cutting‐edge design of fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles

Optimization and cutting‐edge design of fuel‐cell hybrid electric vehicles

A review of the applications of fuel cells in microgrids: opportunities and challenges

Renewable Energy for Robots and Robots for Renewable Energy – A Review

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