Design and Simulation of a Fuel Cell Hybrid Powered Motorcycle and Comparison with Non-Hybrid System

Author

Mirzaei, Masoumeh ; Dehghan, Ali A. ; Asaei, Behzad

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Yazd, Yazd

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

843

Lastpage

848

Abstract

Motor cycles are one of the major sources of air pollution in crowded cities. In order to alleviate this problem, instead of the internal combustion engines new technologies such as pure PEM fuel cell system or hybrid system can be utilized. In this paper, a hybrid fuel cell system has been modeled and optimized. This system includes fuel cell stack, compressor, humidifier, pump, blower, hydrogen storage tank and chemical battery. After optimization, by using the Simulink software the system performance under the standard driving cycle (FTP75) has been simulated and the results of that have been compared with the non-hybrid system.

Keywords

air pollution; fuel cell vehicles; hybrid electric vehicles; FTP75; Simulink software; chemical battery; fuel cell hybrid powered motorcycle; fuel cell stack; hybrid system; hydrogen storage tank; internal combustion engines; nonhybrid system; pure PEM fuel cell system; standard driving cycle; Air pollution; Batteries; Chemical technology; Cities and towns; Fuel cells; Fuel storage; Hydrogen storage; Internal combustion engines; Motorcycles; Software performance; fuel cell; hybrid; motorcycle; stack;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2007. VPPC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Arlington, TX

Print_ISBN

978-0-7803-9760-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7803-9761-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2007.4544241

Filename

4544241