Fuel Cell-Powered SRM Driven Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Multi-Port Topology

Abstract

Abstract

In recent years, plug-in hybrid electrical vehicles (PHEVs) have received much attention owing to high demand of fuel efficiency and environment protection against the exhaust gas emission. PHEVs combines the merits of the electrical vehicles and hybrid electrical vehicles. In current hybrid vehicles there are three main electrical energy components including generator, battery bank and driving motor, respectively. For plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, an AC-DC converter is also needed to achieve the charging function. To equip with these energy conversion functions, at least two power electronics converters are needed to link the generator, battery bank and motor. However, the on-board space is limited, and the bus voltage control and coordination control of converters also increase the control complexity and decrease the reliability of the on-board energy conversion equipment. Therefore, it is important to integrate all the converters together to give a more compact solution for on-board energy conversion. The objective of this work is to design an SRM through a better approach and to develop a modular tri-port high-power converter for the SRM based PHEV to combine the multiple electrical energy components into one converter. Fuel cells and battery are combined to replace heavy sized battery or ICE. ANSYS software is used for the simulation of the designed system. The design is also done based on the physical dimensions along with the finite element analysis. By considering the different working conditions of the vehicles the characteristics curves at various modes are analyzed.

Keywords: ANSYS Maxwell, Finite Element Analysis, Plug-in Hybrid electrical vehicle (PHEV), Switched reluctance motors (SRMs), Internal Combustion Engine (ICE).

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Ben George Koshy, Ananthu Vijayakumar. Fuel Cell-Powered SRM Driven Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Multi-Port Topology. Journal of Instrumentation Technology & Innovations. 2019; 9(3): 40–52p.