Fuel Cell Vehicle Thermal Management System Simulation in Contrast to Conventional Vehicle Concepts

2005-01-2050

05/10/2005

Event
Vehicle Thermal Management Systems Conference & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
The wide experience in thermal management for vehicles with combustion engine based drive trains could be used to optimize fuel cell driven vehicles. For the simulation task, 1d software KULI was used. By comparing two vehicles of similar size, one with combustion engine the other with a fuel cell, differences in the thermal behaviour were highlighted. For two typical operation points, relevant for the layout of cooling systems, the vehicles were compared. Additionally, the behaviour for a transient cycle with significant fractions of high load was verified. To reach temperature levels of the fuel cell vehicle the heat exchange area had to be increased by 70% compared to the conventional vehicle. Also water flow and fan speed had to be adapted.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-2050
Pages
11
Citation
Hager, J., and Schickmair, L., "Fuel Cell Vehicle Thermal Management System Simulation in Contrast to Conventional Vehicle Concepts," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-2050, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-2050.
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Published
May 10, 2005
Product Code
2005-01-2050
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English