Load leveled battery system characteristics using sealed lead-acid batteries

Author

Guerin, John T. ; Burke, Andrew F.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Transp. Studies, California Univ., Davis, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

27 Jul-1 Aug 1997

Firstpage

883

Abstract

The characteristics of a load leveled battery system were studied experimentally using a 36 V pack of sealed lead-acid batteries (38 Ah, 12 V modules) as the energy source and a 24 V pack of the same batteries as the pulse power unit. Control strategy for the load leveling was implemented such that the results could be easily interpreted relative to the use of ultracapacitors as the pulse power unit. The system response and test results are in good agreement with previously published SIMPLEV simulations of battery load leveling with pulse power batteries and ultracapacitors in electric vehicles and show the importance of high efficiency control electronics and the expected high charge/discharge efficiency of ultracapacitors to optimize system performance

Keywords

capacitor storage; electric vehicles; electrochemistry; lead; load (electric); pulsed power technology; secondary cells; 12 V; 24 V; 36 V; Pb; battery characteristics; cycling efficiency; electric vehicle batteries; electric vehicles; high efficiency control electronics; load-leveled battery system characteristics; pulse power batteries; pulse power unit; sealed Pb-acid secondary batteries; ultracapacitors; Battery powered vehicles; Control systems; Costs; Electric vehicles; Electronic equipment testing; Energy storage; Supercapacitors; System testing; Vehicle driving; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1997. IECEC-97., Proceedings of the 32nd Intersociety

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4515-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECEC.1997.661885

Filename

661885