Energy Storage Requirements for Fuel Cell Vehicles

Document Number: 2004-01-1302

Date Published: March 2004

Author(s):
Aymeric P. Rousseau - Argonne National Laboratory
Rajesh Ahluwalia - Argonne National Laboratory
Qhizi Zhang - Argonne National Laboratory

Abstract:
Because of their high efficiency and low emissions, fuel-cell vehicles are undergoing extensive research and development. As the entire powertrain system needs to be optimized, the requirements of each component to achieve FreedomCAR goals need to be determined. With the collaboration of FreedomCAR fuel cell, energy storage, and vehicle Technical Teams, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) used several modelling tools to define the energy storage requirements for fuel cell vehicles. For example, the Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT), which is a transient vehicle simulation software, was used with a transient fuel cell model derived from the General Computational Toolkit (GCtool). This paper describes the impact of degree of hybridization, control strategy, and energy storage technology on energy storage requirements for a fuel cell SUV vehicle platform.

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