Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Ginn, Herbert L., III

Committee Member

Follett, Randolph F.

Committee Member

Gao, Wenzhong

Date of Degree

8-7-2004

Original embargo terms

MSU Only Indefinitely

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only

Major

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

The fuel economy of Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) is affected by various factors such as the fuel cell efficiency, the regenerative energy capturing, the power control strategy, the vehicle driving patterns, the degree of hybridization between fuel cells and energy storage systems, and so on. In this thesis, a new power control strategy is proposed to improve fuel economy for hybrid FCVs considering the fuel cell efficiency and battery energy management. In order to show the power flows due to the proposed power control strategy and analyze the fuel economy, an overall vehicle simulation for three types of FCVs is implemented. The results show that the fuel economy can be improved by operating the fuel cell system within the specified high efficiency region and managing the state of charge (SOC) of the battery for absorbing regeneration energy effectively.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/21277

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