This paper deals with on-board energy management of hybrid fuel cell vehicles equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (FC) stack and a battery pack as main power source and hybridizing device, respectively. A multilevel architecture was conceived to separately manage on-board energy flows and mutual interaction between FC auxiliaries and powertrain components. At the highest-level, a splitting index map was designed to share the power requested by the driver among the fuel cell stack and batteries as function of traction power demand and batteries’ state of charge. At the intermediate-level are defined the set points at which to operate the fuel cell system (FCS) to achieve maximum efficiency. Then, at the low-level, specific control strategies are adopted to reach the set point as addressed by the intermediate-level. To guarantee the accuracy required for control strategy development, a mixed modeling approach was followed to simulate vehicle powertrain, FCS, electrochemistry, and water management. The simulations were carried out for a 60 kW FC powertrain running under severe transient maneuvers. The results show the potentialities of the proposed approach for energy management optimization, control, and diagnostics analyses.
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A Multilevel Approach to the Energy Management of an Automotive Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell System
Ivan Arsie,
Ivan Arsie
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: iarsie@unisa.it
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italy
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Alfonso Di Domenico,
Alfonso Di Domenico
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: adidomenico@unisa.it
University of Salerno
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Cesare Pianese,
Cesare Pianese
Mem. ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: pianese@unisa.it
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italy
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Marco Sorrentino
Marco Sorrentino
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Department of Mechanical Engineering,
e-mail: msorrentino@unisa.it
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italy
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Ivan Arsie
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italye-mail: iarsie@unisa.it
Alfonso Di Domenico
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italye-mail: adidomenico@unisa.it
Cesare Pianese
Mem. ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italye-mail: pianese@unisa.it
Marco Sorrentino
Mem. ASME
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Salerno
, 1 Ponte don Melillo, Fisciano 84084, Italye-mail: msorrentino@unisa.it
J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol. Feb 2010, 7(1): 011004 (11 pages)
Published Online: October 6, 2009
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Received:
June 18, 2007
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May 26, 2008
Published:
October 6, 2009
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Arsie, I., Di Domenico, A., Pianese, C., and Sorrentino, M. (October 6, 2009). "A Multilevel Approach to the Energy Management of an Automotive Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell System." ASME. J. Fuel Cell Sci. Technol. February 2010; 7(1): 011004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.3115622
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