Modeling of Vehicular Based Electric Power Generation System Using MATLAB/Simulink

ABSTRACT In the recent years the energy generation and usage pattern of a country has gained an importance in deciding the economy and overall growth of the country. But usage of electricity is ever increasing demand on the existing generating infrastructure. Due to several limitations and constraints related to new power plants they are not becoming economic. This result in ever increasing short fall of energy, in this regard several substitute’s namely renewable and other generation are playing marginal role. This is due to their high initial cost of installation. In this regard vehicular generation is one of the promising solutions as vehicle to grid concept is under practice. In case of electric vehicles, when ever coasting down regeneration is noticed and it supplement to the battery energy. Similarly an opportunity to generate electricity from conventional vehicles and others is worked out by suitably representing the parameters related to the vehicles. This research strongly proposes the generation of electricity from moving vehicles by incorporating additional generating and storing infrastructure on the vehicle. The performance analysis of the selected vehicles with respect to the fuel consumption is recorded. The comparative analysis of the results provides sufficient evidences to the proposal with a negligible change in fuel consumption for various trials with change in cargo load. In the present work cost and payback like computation for the proposal are not worked out. With this simple transport owner become power trader and support the national grid with suitable interfaces to the grid. Keywords:- vehicular generation, modeling, Regenerative energy, vehicle to grid, PHEV, EV