Design of future concepts and variants of The Free Piston Linear Generator

Author

Schneider, Stephan ; Rinderknecht, Frank ; Friedrich, Horst E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Vehicle Concepts, German Aerosp. Center, Stuttgart, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

25-27 March 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The Free Piston Linear Generator (FPLG) is capable of transforming chemical stored energy into electric energy by means of an internal combustion process. As explained in [6], it achieves high degrees of efficiency at full and particularly at part load. Besides a wide area of applications, the FPLG especially meets the requirements of vehicles with range extenders or serial hybrid drives. Hence, this publication deals with the explanation of different package concepts of the FPLG for the use in electric vehicles with a generating unit. For this purpose, two different FPLG modules for future production cars are designed and the package for different combinations are illustrated in a vehicle model. This comparison presents an outlook for possible vehicle concepts of the future.

Keywords

chemical energy conversion; electric vehicles; energy storage; linear machines; pistons; chemical stored energy; electric energy; electric vehicles; free piston linear generator; internal combustion process; range extenders; serial hybrid drives; Engines; Friction; ISO standards; Load modeling; Springs; Stators; Vehicles; FPLG; Free Piston Linear Generator; energy converter; range extender; serial hybrid vehicle; two-stroke engine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER), 2014 Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Monte-Carlo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3786-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EVER.2014.6844029

Filename

6844029