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100 1 ) (2) 4. EMS and Power Control System
All energy sources will be linked to the multi-switches.
2. FC Model The activation of the switches depend on all three input
The FC model is designed by simplifying the block variables from pedal acceleration (Po), battery SOC (Bc) and
model from SimPowerSystems of MATLAB. The proton high power demand load (Pd). The output current of the
exchange membrane (PEM) FC model type uses hydrogen switches are the current supply that comes from the
and air to feed up membranes inside. The combination of combination of the battery current Ibatt, FC current IFC and SC
hydrogen and air initiated a chemical reaction. The byproduct current ISC as set by the control strategy rules. Fundamentally,
of this reaction is water and energy that generate voltage [4, the total current supply can be defined as [19]
9-13]. The generated voltage E of the fuel cell is determined
(8)
by deduction of open circuit voltage EOC by Tafel slope,
which are described by number of fuel cell N, and parameter
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Electrical power delivered by DC machine can be
calculated through armature current and voltage supply
which is defined as follows [7, 19]
(13)
6. Vehicle System
This vehicle model is built based on the small HEV,
Fig. 2. EMS and power control system block diagram which could be in form of a middleweight Auto-rickshaw or
a battery-scooter. The characteristic of the vehicle dynamic
The block diagram from Fig.2 demonstrates how the
model is shown in Table I. Some parameters shown are
system works to control switches and current for the vehicle
coefficients that exist during vehicles physical movement.
power load.
Several forces that occurred during the movement of the
The block diagram of current controlled source consists
vehicle declined the motor torque and the motor speed should
of PI control system that determines the reference current, Iref
be evaluated. In addition, the motor speed is not directly
from the measuring actual speed and reference speed of the
linked to the vehicle but through gear ratio and the radius of
vehicle. Then the reference current will be compared to
the vehicle drive wheel.
armature current to get the appropriate duty cycle for the DC
The vehicle linear velocity can be derived from the
chopper [7].
rotational motor speed and gear ratio [22]
(9) .. (14)
. (11) (16)
Simulation Model
Vehicle model parameter Values
The development of the simulation vehicle model starts
Tyre radius, r 0.26m
Gear ratio, G 2.1 by dimensioning the vehicle parameter, calculating the
Vehicle mass + passengers 240kg required DC machine and choosing the specification of the
Frontal Area, A 1.2m2 battery, FC and SC. The proposed simulation design can be
Drag co-efficient, cd 0.75 realized through MATLAB SIMULINK. The overall small
Rolling co-efficient, ur 0.009
Air-density, d 1.25kg/m3 HEV simulation structure is proposed in Fig. 3.
Gravity Acceleration, g 9.81ms-2
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Fig. 3. Vehicle system in MATLAB Simulink
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TABLE II
CONTROL STRATEGY LOGIC ALGORITHM
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State Input Condition Active Energy Sources ECE-47
PO PD BC SC FC Battery 45
1 - - - 0 0 0 40
2 Low Low High 0 0 1
3 Low Low Low 0 1 0 35
Velocity/km/h
- - - - 1 0 0
25
5 High Low High 1 0 1
6 High Low Low 1 1 0 20
10
State 1: Shut off operation (Safety features).
State 2: Battery will be fully used to drive motor with no
5
when the battery is in low condition. Fig. 4. Europen drive cycle ECE-47
State 3: FC takes over to drive the vehicle and charge the 50
1000
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only battery as energy source, which is equivalent to state 2
of the proposed control strategy, as discussed in previous
150
Battery current/A
section.
100
FC current/A
60
different magnitude between single and multi sources. Due to 40
reflects state 7 and then return to state 3 after the energy in 0.65
SOC/%
the SC is exhausted. 0.6
0.5
SOC reach 50% (at 82s) that will cause the battery to be 0 20 40 60
Time/s
80 100 120
turned off while FC will be turned on. At this stage, the Fig. 9. Changing supply current at 82s
system is functioning similar to state 3 of control strategy
where FC will supply current to the motor and simultaneously
charge the battery.
CONCLUSIONS
In this paper, the new vehicle concept for small HEV in
50
x ECE-47
simulation model is introduced. The analysis of simulation is
x
only battery compared to the European drive cycle ECE-47. The heavy
battery, FC and SC
40
load condition during driving cycle is also examined in order
to observe the effectiveness of the EMS. As an overall
30 analysis, this system manages to follow the test driving cycle
x x although some minor error was observed.
Velocity/km/h
20 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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This research is part of the work performed by Power
System Laboratory, National University of Malaysia. Author
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thanks to UTeM and Ministry of High Education from
Malaysia for financial support.
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120
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