• Title of article

    Experimental Study of a Pack of Supercapacitors Used in Electric Vehicles

  • Author/Authors

    Mansour, Amari Laboratory of Computer Science for Industrial Systems - INSAT - Tunis - Tunisia , Mohamed Hedi, Chabchoub Computer Embedded System (CES) Laboratory - National School of Engineers of Sfax (ENIS) - Sfax - Tunisia , Faouzi, Bacha Laboratory of Computer Science for Industrial Systems - INSAT - Tunis - Tunisia

  • Pages
    8
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    8
  • Abstract
    Electric vehicles have recently attracted research interest. An electric vehicle is composed of two energy sources, such as fuel cells and ultracapacitors, which are employed to provide, respectively, the steady-state and transient power demanded by the vehicle. A bidirectional DC-DC converter is needed to interface the ultracapacitor to a DC bus. The pack of ultracapacitor consists of many cells in series and possibly also in parallel. In this regard, this paper introduces a comparative study between two packs of supercapacitors. The first supercapacitor pack is composed of ten cells in series but the second supercapacitor pack is composed of five cells in series and two parallel circuits. Each cell is characterized by 2.5 V and 100 F. A number of practical tests are presented.
  • Keywords
    Experimental Study , Pack of Supercapacitors , Electric Vehicles
  • Journal title
    The Scientific World Journal
  • Serial Year
    2017
  • Record number

    2613411