Syllabus 2009/2010 MIE100

Syllabus academic year 2009/2010
(Created 2009-08-11.)

HYBRID VEHICLE DRIVE SYSTEMS

MIE100

Higher education credits: 7,5. Grading scale: TH. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. Optional for: E4, E4em, F4, F4mi, M4, M4fo. Course coordinator: Mats Alaküla, mats.alakula@iea.lth.se, Inst f ind elektrotekn o aut. Recommended prerequisits: FAF024 or FAFA01, FAFA35 Physics or other basic course in physics including mechanics. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. The number of participants is limited to 50 Selection criteria: Number of credits left until final degree. Assessment: Written reports and written examination. Home page: http://www.iea.lth.se.

Aim
The automotive industry is subject to an important and necessary shift to vehicles with significantly lower fuel consumption and higher fuel flexibility. Hybridisation is the most important means to accomplish this. It means that at least one electrical drive is used to help the combustion engine with tractive work and leads to better utilization of the combustion engine, recovery of brake energy, possibility to charge from the power grid and in addition to driev a multitude of secondary loads electric. The latter also contributes to lower fuel consumption.

There is a big and growing need in the automotive industry for engineers with specialisation in electrical drives, power electronics and not least system aspects of hybrid vehicle control. This course has the ambition to give fundamental knowledge and skills in these areas.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

have good general knowledge of the design of a hybrid vehicle and the characteristics of the most important components of it
have good general knowledge of the composition of the drive line and the control of the energy flow in hybrid vehicle drive systems

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

have developed the ability of choosing the most suitable drive line for a hybrid vehicle for a certain range of application and of creating control strategies for hybrid drive lines

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

have gained the self confidence to be able to model and analyze a hybrid vehicle drive system

Contents
Drive and auxiliary drive. Power, torque and speed. Combustion processes - Otto, Diesel, HCCI among others. Gear - manual, automatic, CVT among others. Efficiency and emissions. Fossile fuel, bio fuel - access, cost and performance. EV, HEV - series, parallel, mild, power split, FCV. Conventional servo steering, AC, brake, compressed air and so on. Electrically driven alternatives, function, efficiency. Demands for electric machines and power electronics in vehicles. Criteria for dimensioning. Lifetime, weight, price and so on. Field reduction, starting characteristics, torque ripple and so on. Various types of control, need for sensors. Fuel cells - principle, function and construction. Advantages and drawbacks with various designs. Development trends. Electric storage media - eg batteries and super capacitors.

Drive cycles, efficiency, and emission for some selected drive lines. Acceleration, start and other demands for the vehicle. Regenerative braking. The need for effect and energy storage in hybrid and FC vehicles.

The course includes 28h lectures, 28h computer excercises and self study supported by internet course material, in total 200h.

Literature
Compendium in Hybrid Vehicle Drive Systems, LTH 2009.