A purely ultracapacitor energy storage system hybrid electric vehicles utilizing a based DC-DC boost converter

Author

Cegnar, Erik J. ; Hess, Herb L. ; Johnson, Brian K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Idaho Univ., Moscow, ID, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

2004

Firstpage

1160

Abstract

The design and testing of a purely ultracapacitor energy storage system for the improvement of hybrid electric vehicles is presented. The system utilizes two large ultracapacitor banks for energy storage and a dc-dc boost converter that is capable of supplying 8 kW for voltage regulation. The system provides greater roundtrip efficiency over batteries, improves a vehicle´s ability to recapture energy from regenerative braking, and is controlled and protected by a microcontroller. The paper presents design considerations, simulation, and hardware results of the system.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; control engineering computing; hybrid electric vehicles; microcontrollers; regenerative braking; snubbers; supercapacitors; voltage control; dc-dc boost converter; energy storage; hybrid electric vehicles; microcontroller; regenerative braking; snubber circuits; ultracapacitor banks; ultracapacitor energy storage system; voltage regulation; Batteries; Control systems; DC-DC power converters; Energy storage; Hybrid electric vehicles; Microcontrollers; Protection; Supercapacitors; System testing; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2004. APEC '04. Nineteenth Annual IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8269-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.2004.1295969

Filename

1295969