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MECA0500 ELECTRIC & HYBRID VEHICLES

Pierre DuysinxResearch Center in Sustainable Automotive

Technologies of University of Liege

Academic Year 2018-2019

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References

◼ C.C. Chan and K.T. Chau. « Modern Electric Vehicle Technology » Oxford Science Technology. 2001.

◼ M. Ehsani, Y. Gao, S. Gay, and A. Amadi. Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles. Fundamentals, Theory, and Design. CRC Press. 2005.

◼ I. Husain. Electric and hybrid vehicles. Design fundamentals. Second edition. CRC Press. 2011.

◼ R. Kaller & J.-M. Allenbach. Traction électrique. Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes. Vol 1 et 2. 1995.

◼ B. Multon. Motorisation des véhicules électriques. Les techniques de l’ingénieur. Dossier E 3 996.

◼ Michel Kant. La voiture électrique. Les techniques de l’ingénieur. Dossier D 5 560.

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Outline

◼ Introduction

◼ History

◼ Electric powertrain of road vehicles

◼ Electric powertrain in railway vehicles

◼ Architectures of electric powertrains

◼ Centralized electric drivetrain

◼ Distributed electric drivetrain

◼ Hybrid

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Introduction

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Introduction

◼ The electric car exist from the eve of automobile in the end of 19th century

◼ After a rather erratic period that ends up in the 30ies, the piston engine has definitively won the contest and has been, since that time, the dominating solution for road vehicles

◼ Electric machines has intrinsically superior characteristics superior to piston engines:◼ Constant power in a large range of operation

◼ No idle regime

◼ Easy maintenance

◼ Reliability

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Introduction

◼ However the energy storage system based on batteries appears to be less efficient than petrol that was abundant and cheap:◼ Higher specific energy so longer range and autonomy

◼ Easiness of maintenance

◼ Not expensive

◼ Abundant

◼ Nowadays, while one might have believed that electric drivetrain was forgotten for ever, piston engine is the victim of its success story:◼ Reduction of petrol resources

◼ CO2 emissions

◼ Emissions of pollutants from combustion

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Introduction

◼ In the beginning of the 21st century, the electric motor could be the final winner.

◼ Indeed, in order to preserve individual mobility, on needs vehicles with:

◼ Less pollutants

◼ Less noise

◼ Less fuel consumption

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Electric powertain for road vehicles

◼ Advantages:

◼ Zero emissions on site → urban application

◼ Zero (low) noise emissions

◼ Simple mechanical transmission

(no or simplified gear box)

◼ Torque and speed regulation possible

◼ Energy recovery while braking

◼ High torque at low and zero speed

◼ Smooth operation

◼ No range limitation if external power supply (catenaries for trains)

◼ Disadvantages:

◼ Weight penalty and cost of batteries

◼ Limited autonomy is batteries (Max 200 km)

◼ Charging time8

Electric Powertrain Architecture

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Electric powertrain

◼ Basic electric traction architecture usually mounted on light and heavy vehicles, as well as industrial vehicles (fork lifters, airfield vehicles…) and two wheelers

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Electric powertrain

◼ A modern electric drive is conceptually more complicated.

◼ It is made of 3 subsystems

◼ Electric motor propulsion

◼ Energy source

◼ Auxiliary

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Electric powertrain

◼ Electric propulsion system

◼ Vehicle controller

◼ Power electronic converter

◼ Electric motor

◼ Mechanical Transmission

◼ Driving wheels

◼ Energy source subsystem

◼ Energy source or storage

◼ Energy management unit

◼ Energy refueling unit

◼ Auxiliary

◼ Power steering

◼ Hotel climate control

◼ Auxiliary supply unit

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Electric powertrain components

◼ Electric machine: ◼ Converting electric energy into mechanical energy (motor regime)

and vice versa (generator regime)

◼ Types of electric machines◼ DC shunt or series or separately excited

◼ AC synchronous

◼ AC induction machines; 1 phase or 3 phase machines

◼ Switched Reluctance Machine

◼ Power electronics◼ Modulation of power, speed, torque

◼ Control of machine mode (motor, generator)

◼ Types◼ Chopper, DC / DC converters, etc.

◼ Inverter

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◼ Batteries:

◼ Storing electric energy

◼ Power source

◼ Peak power source

◼ Types

◼ Lead-acid,

◼ Nickel – Cadmium,

◼ Ni – MH (metal hydride),

◼ Li ions

◼ Super capacitors

◼ Flywheels

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◼ Transmission (mechanical)

◼ Gear box

◼ Differential

◼ Wheels

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Electric powertrain architrectures

◼ One can distinguish 2 different solutions:

◼ Centralized motorization: similar to ICE configuration = one single motor and the power is transmitted to the wheels via a transmission line including gear boxes, transfer boxes, differentials, shafts.

◼ Decentralized motorization: electric motors are located on each wheels or against each wheel sets (boogie).

◼ On can further distinguish motors actuating the shaft or using direct drive technique

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Electric powertrain architrectures

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Centralized motorization

◼ Similar concept to ICE engine

◼ May be not adapted to modern electric motorization18

Centralized motorization

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Decentralized motorization

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Decentralized motorization

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Need for a gear box and a clutch?

◼ For piston engines (ICE), the gear box + clutch is necessary because of the unfavorable speed-torque of the engine

ICE

Wheels

Wheels

Shafts

Gear box

Differential

Clutch

Typical drivetrain architecture with an ICE propulsion system

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v

I

II

III

IV

Envelop of the tractive force curves for different gear ratio is defining a constant power (1/v)

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◼ In a naïve conversion of ICE cars to electric, one keeps the gear box and may be the clutch.

◼ However electric machines have

◼ No idle speed

◼ Large range of operating speed (0 to 3.000 rpm - 12.000 rpm)

◼ Electronic controllers can regulate torque and speed easily

◼ Electric drivetrain can be equipped with a simple gear box: one or two gear ratios

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◼ Advantages of gear box with a fixed reduction ratio :◼ No shock during operations. Smooth driving.

◼ Planetary gear boxes can achieve important reduction ratios in a single stage with a good efficiency

◼ Cost of electric motor strongly depends on the maximum torque:◼ Using a high speed motor is favorable to reduce the cost

◼ But the acceleration factor is affected by high gear ratio

◼ Selection of single or multiple gear ratios depending on:◼ Acceleration requirements

◼ Max slope and max drawbar pull requirements

◼ Speed range of the motor

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Unique or multiple motors configuration?

◼ The unique motor configuration is typical from ICE.

◼ With electric motors, on can imagine more innovative design and it is possible to actuate each degrees of freedom independently as in robotics and mechatronic systems.

◼ With distributed motorization with multiple motors, one can even abandon the concept of differential and replace it by 2 or 4 motors, one per each wheel.

◼ The mechanical differential is replaced by an electronic differential systems with control loop.

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Multiple motors configurations

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Unique or multiple motor configuration?

◼ Advantages of multiple motor configurations

◼ Reduction of the weight and volume constraints

◼ Electronic differential system opens new possibilities to control the torque and speed differences at each individual wheels

◼ New possibilities in controlling the vehicle dynamics:

◼ Longitudinal dynamics: antiskid and anti lock braking (ABS) systems

◼ Lateral dynamics: extended electronic stability program

◼ Inconvenient

◼ Using additional electronic systems

◼ Reliability of the overall system?

◼ Additional cost

◼ Increasing system complexity

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In-wheel motor concept

◼ The concept of in-wheel motors minimizes or avoids completely the mechanical transmission by placing directly the motors inside the wheels

◼ One distinguishes :

◼ Inner in-wheel motors whose rotation speed is rather high and is reduced using a fixed gear ratio

◼ Outer in-wheel motors whose rotation speed is low and that are connected in direct-drive

◼ Both approaches generally use permanent magnet (PM) motors because of their high specific power.

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Inner in-wheel motor

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Outer in-wheel motor

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TM4 in-wheel motor Mitsubishi in-wheel motor

Read more at: http://www.electricvehiclesresearch.com/articles/3108/in-wheel-electric-motors-gain-market-share

http://www.electricvehiclesresearch.com/articles/3108/in-wheel-electric-motors-gain-market-share


◼ The inner in-wheel motor

◼ The max rotation speed is rather high (for instance 10 000 rpm)

◼ Requires a gear box (about 10:1) for instance a planetary gear mounted on the wheel hub

◼ Smaller size and smaller weight

◼ Smaller cost

◼ The outer in-wheel motors

◼ Simplicity of the concept

◼ No reduction of speed nor gear box

◼ Larger size and higher weight: might have some impact on comfort and road holding

◼ High cost

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In-wheel motor from TM4

Motor wheel specifications in brief(other versions are available)Peak Power 80 kW 107 hpNominal Power: @950rpm 18.5kW (25hp)Peak torque 670 Nm 494 lb ftNominal torque @ 950 rpm 180 Nm (133lbft)Peak speed: 1385 rpmMax continuous speed: 1235 rpmEfficiency under continuous load @ 950rpm h=96.3 %Maximum supply voltage 500 VDC

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MIEV Lancer Evolution equipped by 4 in-wheel motors

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Motor

(outer-rotor

type)

Type

Permanent

magnetic

synchronous

MakerToyo Denki

Seizo K.K.

Max. output 50 kW

Max. torque 518 Nm

Max. speed 1500 rpm

Dimensions445 mm (dia.)

x 134 mm

No. fitted 4

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◼ Bike applications:

www.smart-bike.netwww.acclivity.ca

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Hybrid Electric Powertrain Architecture

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Definitions

◼ Definition of hybrid vehicle: vehicle equipped with a propulsion system that combines two or several energy sources, storages and converters.

◼ Hybrid electric vehicle: a vehicle in which the propulsion energy is available from two or more types of energy stores, sources and converters, and at least one of them can deliver electrical energy (Chan, 2002)◼ There are many kinds of HEV: petrol/diesel/CNG/H2 ICE & battery,

fuel cell & battery, battery & supercaps/flywheels…

◼ Hybrid hydraulic vehicle: same as HEV but in this case one of the energy sources, storage and converters are hydraulic systems

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Definitions

◼ One also distinguish two basic configurations of the hybrid powertrain

◼ In a parallel hybrid, both types of motorization are connected to the wheels and can propel the car independently or in combination.

Typically the fuel tank supplies the ICE while the batteries are the energy source for the electric motor.

◼ In a series hybrid, the prime mover and its energy source are used to spin a generator that supplies electrical energy to either the batteries or directly the electric motor that is the only one to be geared with the wheels.

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Parallel hybrid electric powertrains

◼ TWO MODE TRACTION or PARALLEL HYBRID

◼ The ICE powertrain is used outside of the cities while electric powertrain is more efficient for urban driving

Series hybrid electric powertrains

◼ SERIE ELECTRIC POWERTRAIN

◼ The ICE (piston engine or gas turbine) is used to power a generator that continuously feeds in batteries

◼ The battery supplies the electric motor that is the only one to be connected to the wheels

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Definitions

◼ Other more complex configurations are possible (Chan, 2002)

◼ The series-parallel configuration: both energy sources can propel the vehicle. Nonetheless the system is designed to allow recovering series architecture by inserting a generator between the ICE engine and the batteries.

◼ The complex hybrid configuration extends also the couplings between the two kinds of propulsion chains. The more complex lay-out allows using the electric machine to receive from (generator mode) or to deliver (starter mode) energy to ICE engine.

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Parallel Hybrid

E

B

P M

G

T

F

Series Hybrid

F

E

B MP

T

Complex HybridSeries-Parallel Hybrid

B: BatteryE: Internal Combustion EngineF: Fuel TankG: GeneratorM: Electric MotorP: Power ConverterT: Transmission to wheels

F

M/ G

M M

T

E

T

P

P

P

B

B

G

E

F Electric link

Hydraulic link

Mechanical link

Torque coupling: Two shaft configuration

◼ In the parallel hybrid configuration, a classical option is to use two separate shafts, one for the e-motor and one for the engine.

◼ The transmission and mechanical reduction components can be placed before or after the torque coupling device

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Fig. 5.8 Eshani et al. (2010) Fig. 5.10 Eshani et al. (2010)

Torque coupling: single shaft configuration

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◼ In the parallel hybrid configuration, the alternative option is to have a single shaft mounting.

◼ The drawback is that the e-motor and the engine rotation speed are linked.

◼ Decoupling the engine and e-motor rotation speeds requires clutches

Fig. 5.12 Eshani et al. (2010)Fig. 5.11 Eshani et al. (2010)

Torque coupling: separated axles

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◼ A third alternative option is to use the road as the mechanical coupling. Each motor is placed on a different axle.

◼ The drawback if that coupling efficiency is impacted by the road tire efficiency.

◼ The advantage is that one gets a all-wheel drive vehicle for free…

Fig. 5.13 Eshani et al. (2010)

Speed coupling: planetary gear

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◼ Among the complex coupling architectures, the torque coupling using a planetary gear train is the most famous one.

◼ The difficulty lies in the complex algorithm necessary to deal with the rotation speed constraint between the three input / output velocities


Toyota Prius transmission

Transmission of Toyota Prius II

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Transmission of Toyota Prius II

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Speed coupling: transmotor configuration

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◼ Finally it is also possible to use non mechanical devices to realize the speed coupling.

◼ Transmotors are typically used to perform this task.


Key components of electric and hybrid electric vehicles

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Key components of hybrid vehicles

◼ The components of electric and hybrid vehicles are the following:

◼ A prime mover, generally a internal combustion engine

◼ An auxiliary power source: electric machines (generator / motor) or hydraulic motor/pump…

◼ An storage system for the auxiliary energy : a battery pack, a fly wheel, or hydraulic accumulator…

◼ Electronic Control Unit for power modulation of power source and converters: modulation of speed, torque, power…

◼ Mechanical transmission and transfer box: mechanical system to connect the different motors to the wheels

◼ Energy management unit (power electronic): optimization of energy flow…

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Prime mover

◼ The prime mover is the main energy source of the vehicle.

◼ Most of the time the prime mover is an internal combustion engine, and often a piston engine.

◼ Gasoline, diesel, CNG, H2 piston engine

◼ High energy density of liquid fuel

◼ High autonomy of ICE

◼ Reliable technology, taking benefit of a century of continuous developments

◼ Established infrastructure

◼ Modern developments to improve ICE performances and reduce the consumption and the emissions: catalytic converters, variable injection, direct injection, PM filters, etc.)

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Prime mover

◼ Other combustion engines:◼ Possibility to operate the engine at given fixed load and constant

rotation speed

◼ New focus on gas turbines and steam engines

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Prime mover

◼ In mid or long term, fuel cells could be the prime mover:◼ Fast growing technology

◼ Hydrogen or methanol fuel cell

◼ Major issues: storage or on-board production of the fuel◼ Reforming process

◼ Storage under high pressure, under liquefied, adsorption, etc.

◼ Retail and distribution network to be established

◼ Problems still to be addressed : reliability, life time…

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Electric machines

◼ For hybrid electric vehicles, the secondary / auxiliary energy source is electricity.

◼ The electric converters are reversible machines, working as motor or generators.

◼ The electric machines used for HEV are very similar to those used in pure electric vehicles.

◼ Remind that most popular electric traction machines are the following:◼ DC series motors or separately excited DC machines

◼ AC induction machines

◼ AC synchronous machines

◼ Motor with electronically commanded commutation: Permanent Magnet (PM) electric machines, Switched Reluctance (SR) machine…

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Electric machines for HEV

DC motor Induction machine

Brushless motor

SR motor Hybrid PM motor

Specific power 2,5 3,5 5 3,5 4

Efficiency 2,5 3,5 5 3,5 5

Controllability 5 4 4 3 4

Reliability 5 4 4 3 4

Maturity 5 5 4 4 3

Cost 4 5 3 4 3

Total 22 26 25 23 23

Evaluation of electric motor for HEV by Chan (2002)

Electric machines

◼ The study conducted by Chan (2002) shows that induction machines and synchronous PM motors seems to be the most interesting technologies for hybrid electric vehicles.

◼ The smaller cost of induction machines makes them the most suited choice for starter alternator used in integrated motor assist systems but also in Start & Stop systems.

◼ The focus on hybrid vehicles rises a growing interest to electric machines and to an important research effort:

◼ Ultra thin motors: e.g. electric IMA for Honda Insight

◼ Permanent Magnet AC motors as in the new THSII of the Prius

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Electric machines

DC brushless motor of the Honda IMA

The motor is mounted directly on fly wheel at the end of the crankshaft

The electric machine must be short and develop a large torque so the thin multi pole configuration

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Electric machines

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Electric machines

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PM e-machines of Toyota Prius

Electric machines

Motor / generator AC synchronous Permanent Magnet of the Prius II

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Electric machines

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Electric machines: torque ripple

◼ Problem of NVH generator by electric machines: torque ripple

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Simple DC machine

Torque ripple for a SR machine


◼ Problem of NVH generator by electric machines: torque ripple for PM and SR machines

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◼ Shape optimization of an Interior Permanent Magnet machine

◼ Minimization of Torque Ripple

St. Minimum Torque

◼ Design Variables: parameters of CAD entities

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◼ Approach in FEDO project:

◼ User friendly design tool based on the ONELAB project

◼ Simulation based on GETDP tool

◼ Optimization based on free optimization packages and Python scripts (e.g. NLOPT)

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◼ Optimization algorithm: MMA (NLOPT)

◼ Optimized geometry (iteration 20)

◼ Reduction of torque ripple -71%

◼ Reduction of average torque -18%

◼ In blue: original geometry

◼ In red: optimized geometry

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Transmissions

◼ For series hybrid vehicles, the wheels are only connected to the electric machine so that generally as in pure electric vehicle, there is no need for a gear box and a clutch.

◼ When internal combustion engine is connected to the wheels as in parallel hybrid, then a clutch and a gear box are needed:

◼ To allow the vehicle to start from rest

◼ To allow the vehicle to stop without blocking the engine

◼ To allow gear ratio change if a manual gear box is used

◼ To adapt the rotation speed and the torque to the driving conditions to take benefit of the full power

◼ The different types of transmission systems can be applied to hybrid vehicles

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Transmissions

◼ The transmissions with manual gear box have the best mechanical efficiency but they require some expertise of the user to reduce the fuel consumption.

◼ The transmissions with automatic gear box are providing the best driving comfort, gear changes without power interruption to the wheels, they remain more complex and more expensive. Their mechanical efficiency is generally lower than manual gear box because of the hydraulic torque converter.

◼ The continuous variable transmissions (CVT) are promising. They allow the engine working in rotation speed and torque conditions that are (nearly) independent of the speed and torque of the wheels. They are more expensive and heavier. They also lead to unusual working conditions for the driver.

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Friction Clutch

Clutch in closed position Clutch in open position

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Hydraulic coupling

◼ Principle: use hydro kinetic energy of the fluid to transfer smoothly the power from the source to the load while amplifying the output torque

◼ The input wheel plays the role of a pump whereas the output wheel acts as a turbine

◼ One may add a fixed wheel (stator) to improve the efficiency

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Manual gear boxes

Gear box principles

Input shaft

Output shaft

Intermediateshaft

Direct transmission

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Manual gear boxes

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Manual gear boxes

Neutral

1st 2nd

3rd

Reverse76

Manual gear boxes

Gear selection77

Automatic gear boxes

◼ The basic element of automatic gear boxes is the planetary gear train

Sun = planétaire Planet = satellite Annulus = Couronne78

Automatic gear box

Principle of an automatic gear box based on double planetary gear trains

Mèmetaux Fig 5.979

CVT : Van Doorne System

Pulleys with variable radii

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CVT : Van Doorne System

◼ Working principle

◼ By modifying the distance between the two conical half shells, one modifies the effective radii of the pulleys and so the reduction ratio

◼ Originally the system was based on the centrifugal forces, but nowadays the system is actuated by depression engines and controlled by microprocessors

◼ PERFORMANCES

◼ Variable reduction ratios varying between 4 to 6 are achieved

◼ Variable efficiency variable with the input torque and the rotation speed

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Differential system

◼ During turn, the inner and outer wheels have different rotation speeds because of different radii.

◼ Differential systems allow a different speed in left / right wheels while one single input torque

◼ Differential systems can be studied as planetary gears with equal number of teeth for sun and annulus.

Input shaft (engine)

Output shafts (wheels)

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Differential system

Working principle of differential system83

Torque coupling devices

◼ Torque coupling devices realize the sum of the input torques and transmit the result to wheel shafts

◼ With the reduction ratios

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◼ Torque coupling can be carried out by two gear trains meshing to the final shaft or by single gear train.


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◼ Torque coupling can be realized also using chains or pulleys

Planetary gear

◼ Speed coupling ➔ Kinematic relation

between the sun, the planet carrier and the annulus

◼ With the gear ratio

◼ One finds the Willys formula

◼ Or alternatively

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Planetary gear sets

◼ Equilibrium and conservation of power are given by

◼ After some algebra one finds

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Van Doorme system

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Honda IMA transmission

CVT de la Honda Civic

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Energy storage and peak power source

◼ The requirements on batteries and energy storage devices depend on the hybrid vehicle configuration.

◼ For full hybrid, the energy storage capacity must be sufficiently large to level the energy demand and supply for the energy necessary to drive a given distance in pure electric mode (zero emission mode)

◼ For mild hybrids, the energy storage can have a smaller capacity and sufficient to assist the prime mover when accelerating or recovering braking energy. However because of frequent fluctuation, the batteries plays more as peak power source and specific power has a greater influence

◼ For both lay-out, the braking energy is a major factor of batteries sizing.

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◼ As for electric vehicle, the following parameters have to be considered for battery selection:

◼ Specific energy [Wh/kg]

◼ Volumetric energy [Wh/m³]

◼ Specific power [W/kg]

◼ Energy efficiency: the ratio between output energy over input energy [%]

◼ Self discharge rate: the time necessary to loose 20% of the state-of-charge

◼ The life time in number of charge – discharge cycles

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Spec. En.

[Wh/kg]

En. Dens.

[Wh / l]

Spec. Pow.

[W /kg]

# Cycles

[Cycles]

Cost

[$/kWh]

VRLA 30-45 60-90 200-300 400-600 150

Ni-Cd 40-60 80-110 150-350 600-1200 300

Ni-Zn 60-65 120-130 150-300 300 100-300

Ni-MH 60-70 130-170 150-300 600-1200 200-350

Zn–Air 230 269 105 NA 90-120

Al–Air 190-250 190-200 7-16 NA NA

Na–S 100 150 200 800 250-450

Na-NiCl2 86 149 150 1000 230-350

Li-ions 90-130 140-200 250-450 800-1200 >200

USABC 200 300 400 1000 <100

Comparison of HEV batteries by Chan & Chau 2001 94


Battery Pack of Toyota Prius II

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Battery Pack of Toyota Prius II

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Control systems

◼ Electronic control systems are of a primary importance in hybrid electric vehicles.

◼ The hybrid management system is in charge of the strategy to minimize the fuel consumption and emissions while guaranteeing the best performances to the vehicle

◼ One major issue is to maintain state-of-charge of the batteries and accumulators

◼ Hybrid management system rules the energy flux between the different components and powertrains

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Control systems

◼ Besides the hybrid management system, one has the subordinated controllers that control the particular components

◼ Electronic engine Control Unit (ECU) is in charge of engine management

◼ Battery management System supervises the battery operations controlling the state-of-charge, current density, the cell temperature, etc.

◼ The Electric Motor control units are the chopper or the inverter that carries out electric machine behavior

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Control systems

Hybrid management system (synergy drive) of Toyota Prius II

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