Title: Rotary compact power pack for series hybrid electric vehicle

Authors: H. Amirian; A. Pezouvanis; B.A. Mason; M.K. Ebrahimi

Addresses: TUV SUD Canada, 1229 Ringwell Drive, Newmarket, ON L3Y 8T8, Canada ' HyPERC, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK ' HyPERC, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK ' HyPERC, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK

Abstract: This paper presents a new-designed compact power pack for a series hybrid vehicle. A new type of rotary induction machine with an outer rotor construction is designed to be coupled with the novel rotary internal combustion engine (ICE) with cylindrical crankcase in order to form the compact power unit. The starting and generation performance of the designed machine as well as the overall vehicle performance is analysed. Results show that the proposed power pack has the best performance in terms of fuel economy, emissions and battery charging compared to the existing power units in ADVISOR. Over a city cycle, fuel economy is increased by up to 47% with emissions reduced by up to 36% and over the highway cycle, fuel economy is increased by up to 69% with emissions reduced by up to 42%.

Keywords: HEVs; hybrid electric vehicles; compact power pack; novel rotary engines; outer rotor generators; hybrid vehicles; rotary induction machines; cylindrical crankcase; fuel economy; vehicle emissions; battery charging.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEHV.2013.059357

International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, 2013 Vol.5 No.4, pp.261 - 269

Received: 24 Apr 2013
Accepted: 03 Jul 2013
Published online: 18 Feb 2014 *

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