A commercially available 'pure' lead-acid battery electric scooter (GoPed) was converted to a hydrogen fuel cell battery hybrid scooter (HFCHS) in views of investigating the effect of hybridisation on driving duty cycles, range, performance, recharging times, well-to-wheel CO2 footprint and overall running costs. The HFCHS with plug-in features consisted mainly of a 500 W hydrogen PEM Fuel Cell stack connected to four 12 V 9 Ah lead-acid batteries and two hydrogen metal-hydride canisters supplying pure hydrogen (99.999%) and also acting as heat sink (due to endothermic hydrogen desorption process). In this study, the HFCHS urban driving cycle was compared with that of a conventional petrol and 'pure' battery electric scooter. The energy consumed by the HFCHS was 0.11 kWh/km, with an associated running cost of pound 0.01/km, a well-to-wheel CO2 of 9.37 g CO2/km and a maximum range of 15 miles. It was shown that the HFCHS gave better energy efficiencies and speeds compared to battery and petrol powered GoPed scooters alone.
Hydrogen fuel cell hybrid scooter (HFCHS) with plug-in features on Birmingham campus
Hybrid-Scooter mit Wasserstoff-Brennstoffzellen und Steckbauteilen auf dem Campus von Birmingham
AHEC, Asian Hydrogen Energy Conference, 10 ; 12709-12715
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy ; 35 , 23
2010
7 Seiten
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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