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Abstract
Factors such as global warming, dwindling fossil fuel reserves, and energy
security concerns combine to indicate that a replacement for the internal
combustion engine (ICE) vehicle is needed. Fuel cell vehicles have the potential
to address the problems surrounding the ICE vehicle without imposing any
significant restrictions on vehicle performance, driving range, or refueling time.
Moreover, the fuel cell vehicles have benefits such as high efficiency, zero
harmful emissions, and a potentially renewable fuel.
Therefore, the present research work on the fuel cell vehicle (FCV) is aimed at
investigating performance of the FCV and assessing its costs. The FCV consists
of the propulsion system, which consists of fuel cell stack, interleaved boost
converter (IBC) and brushless DC (BLDC) motor. This is in addition to the
chassis, body, hydrogen tank, gear transmission and other auxiliaries parts.
The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) along with the FCVbased- PEMFC are modeled in the present thesis. This is in addition to
interleaved boost converter modeling and harmonic mitigation using power
filters. The cost estimation of the FCV is compared with that of the
conventional ICE vehicle.
The literature review chapter focused on the components of fuel cell vehicle
with a brief survey of the most promising topologies of fuel cell. The
advantages of fuel cell vehicles are listed in this chapter as well as the strategies
of fuel cell vehicle automakers are described. Some basics of DC-DC converter,
BLDC motor and the APF are also reviewed.
Due to high levels of harmonics in the proposed FCV system, passive and active
power filters have been designed to mitigate system harmonics . With the use of active power filter, the total harmonic distortion (THD) of BLDC motor current
drops down to , which lies within the IEEE allowable limits.
The cost of FCV components including fuel cell stack, IBC, BLDC motor, and
hydrogen tank is assessed as equal to
respectively. The cost of the proposed FCV is almost the same as that of the
hybrid one ($24,363 for FCV and $24,050 for hybrid vehicle) and still far above
the conventional ICE vehicle price ($15,805 for ICE vehicle).