TY - GEN
T1 - A study on methods to design and select energy storage devices for Fuel Cell hybrid powered railway vehicles
AU - Tsukahara, Kenta
AU - Kondo, Keiichiro
PY - 2013/12/1
Y1 - 2013/12/1
N2 - Since Fuel Cells (FCs) are very expensive, their output power should be minimized when FCs are applied to hybrid powered railway vehicles. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the effect of hybridization with energy storage devices to reduce the FCs output power. In this paper, methods to design the capacity of energy storage devices which are assumed to be Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs) are studied for FCs hybrid powered railway vehicles. The proposed methods are verified by numerical simulations, assuming a train operation in a typical rural line. Finally, procedures to select the suitable energy storage devices and to design their capacity for FCs hybrid powered railway vehicles are provided. The results of this study contribute to the development of environment-friendly transportation system.
AB - Since Fuel Cells (FCs) are very expensive, their output power should be minimized when FCs are applied to hybrid powered railway vehicles. Therefore, it is necessary to reveal the effect of hybridization with energy storage devices to reduce the FCs output power. In this paper, methods to design the capacity of energy storage devices which are assumed to be Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLCs) are studied for FCs hybrid powered railway vehicles. The proposed methods are verified by numerical simulations, assuming a train operation in a typical rural line. Finally, procedures to select the suitable energy storage devices and to design their capacity for FCs hybrid powered railway vehicles are provided. The results of this study contribute to the development of environment-friendly transportation system.
KW - Electric Double Layer Capacitor
KW - Fuel Cell
KW - Hybrid powered railway vehicle
KW - Lithium-ion battery
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U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699866
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699866
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893575546
SN - 9781479902248
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 4534
EP - 4539
BT - Proceedings, IECON 2013 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
T2 - 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2013
Y2 - 10 November 2013 through 14 November 2013
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