Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications and Introduction to Hydrogen Economy
In this course, different hybrid fuel cell powertrains will be introduced at first. Some real-world fuel cell vehicle examples will be shown. A short introduction to “hydrogen economy” will be given. The actual hydrogen production and perspectives will be discussed and a “well to wheel” efficiency analysis example will be discussed for fuel cell vehicles compared with conventional vehicles and electric/hybrid vehicles. Some perspectives about the future fuel cell vehicle development will be presented at last. Topics covered include: Fuel cell propulsion and hybrid powertrains; Fuel cell auxiliary power units; Real-world fuel cell vehicles examples; Hydrogen production and perspectives; “Well to wheel” efficiency for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; Fuel cell vehicle vs. electric/hybrid vehicles and Future of fuel cell vehicles development.
What you will learn:
- Explain fuel cell propulsion and hybrid powertrains
- Summarize future fuel cell vehicle development
- List real-world fuel cell vehicle examples
- Compare fuel cell vehicles vs. electric/hybrid vehicles
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Who Should Attend: Electrical engineer, Chemical engineer, Systems engineer, Hardware engineer, Design engineer
Instructor
Fei Gao
Dr. Fei Gao is currently an associate professor at the energy department of the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort, France. He received respectively from UTBM the Master's degree in electrical and control system engineering in 2007, and the PhD degree in renewable energy with distinguished youth doctor reward in 2010. His main research fields include fuel cells and their applications in transportation, multi-physical modeling and real time simulation systems. He is the head of the energy production division of department of Energy of UTBM, and the chair of fuel cell modeling axis of the Fuel Cell Research Federation (FR CNRS) in France. Since 2014, he is also appointed as adjunct lecture professor at School of Automation of the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China. He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and editor of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Newsletter. He is elected in 2013 as Secretary (IEEE officer) of the Technical Committee on Automotive Technology (TCAT) of IEEE Industry Electronic Society (IES). He serves also as technical track chair and member of organizing committee in many IEEE international conferences (IECON, ITEC, APEC).
Publication Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5090-0499-7