Experimental test on a fuel cell powered brushless synchronous motor for automotive applications

Author

Boscaino, V. ; Miceli, Rosario ; Capponi, G. ; Galluzzo, G. Ricco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy, Inf. Eng. & Math. Models, Univ. of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

24-25 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, a fuel cell powered motor emulator is proposed. The MATLAB/Simulink model including the fuel cell stack, the motor and drive models is described. The Urban Driving Cycle test is performed in MATLAB environment. Effective operating conditions of the whole fuel cell powered motor are accurately emulated according to actual regulations in force. The emulated current profile is used for experimental tests on a 5kW Nuvera PowerFlow stack. Thanks to the proposed approach, the motor and inverter drives are accurately emulated and the provided test-bench is used to evaluate performances of the stack under test for automotive applications. Simulation and experimental results are compared to test the accuracy of the proposed emulator. Experimental results are shown and performance evaluation is carried out.

Keywords

automotive electrics; brushless machines; fuel cell vehicles; invertors; load flow; synchronous motor drives; Nuvera power flow stack; automotive applications; fuel cell powered brushless synchronous motor drives; fuel cell powered motor emulator; fuel cell stack; inverter drives; power 5 kW; urban driving cycle test; automotive; electric vehicles; fuel cell; synchronous motor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Renewable Power Generation Conference (RPG 2014), 3rd

Conference_Location

Naples

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2014.0822

Filename

6993215