An integrated Control of Carbon Effluence in Fuel Cell Based Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle

This paper proposes an “Integrated control of carbon effluence in fuel cell based hybrid electric vehicle”. The hybrid system is used to produce energy without interruption and it uses Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell. Therefore, prospective vehicle designs favour improved exhaust emissions and energy consumption without compromising vehicle performance. Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) provide improved fuel economy due to extra degree of freedom provided by battery energy storage and one or more electric machine's which allow running a smaller combustion engine in a higher efficiency region. Compared with conventional Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs), Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) have a larger battery pack and can replace a certain amount of fossil energy with grid electricity. As a result, the fuel economy and emission reduction can be improved remarkably. The energy demand of the PHEV is supplied both by the fuel tank and by the fuel cell or battery, which makes the power distribution among different power components more complex than HEVs, meanwhile the energy management strategy has a significant impact on the vehicle performance.