Electric and hybrid vehicles
Code 807II
Credits 6
Learning outcomes
Purpose
Purpose of the course is to give students an overview of vehicles having electric and hybrid power trains, how to evaluate their competitiveness, which architecture they may have, how to operate them and manage their board energy. It includes description of Railway Electric Traction Systems.
Prerequisites
Students are supposed to have basic knowledge of electric circuits, electric machinery, and electric drives.
Description.
The course will teach how to compare different categories of road vehicles, based on the Basic ideas of Life-Cycle Assessment, and Well-to-Wheels analysis. Then it will introduce different architectures of electric and Hybrid vehicles, including possible use of hydrogen and fuel cells, and give some advanced analysis of Electric Drives.
Part of the course will be devoted to the description of the railway electric transportation systems, discussing both the feeding and on-board systems.
Most of the topics, in addition to being dealt with theoretically, are also analysed through computer simulations in the classroom. Students will operate on individual computers, and will learn how to simulate the components and systems dealt with in the course using the Modelica Simulation Language.
In this way, students could continue to use the gained know-how (and the models that they have built) in their future careers, using one of the available free tools for simulating Modelica-based models.
Purpose of the course is to give students an overview of vehicles having electric and hybrid power trains, how to evaluate their competitiveness, which architecture they may have, how to operate them and manage their board energy. It includes description of Railway Electric Traction Systems.
Prerequisites
Students are supposed to have basic knowledge of electric circuits, electric machinery, and electric drives.
Description.
The course will teach how to compare different categories of road vehicles, based on the Basic ideas of Life-Cycle Assessment, and Well-to-Wheels analysis. Then it will introduce different architectures of electric and Hybrid vehicles, including possible use of hydrogen and fuel cells, and give some advanced analysis of Electric Drives.
Part of the course will be devoted to the description of the railway electric transportation systems, discussing both the feeding and on-board systems.
Most of the topics, in addition to being dealt with theoretically, are also analysed through computer simulations in the classroom. Students will operate on individual computers, and will learn how to simulate the components and systems dealt with in the course using the Modelica Simulation Language.
In this way, students could continue to use the gained know-how (and the models that they have built) in their future careers, using one of the available free tools for simulating Modelica-based models.