Frounhofer IVI

주제

Fuel Cell Power Train for Non-road mobile machinery

경력

2013 – 2016: Institute for Railway Technology (Dresden, Germany) Project engineer
2016 -2019: Dresden University of Technology (Dresden, Germany) Research Associate, PhD candidate
2020 – 2022: Institute for Railway Technology (Dresden, Germany) Project Manager, Head of Project Team
Since 2023:
Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI Head of Research Group for Monitoring and Operating Strategies, Vehicle Systems

Dr. Martin Ufert can draw on more 10 years of experience in engineering of electric transportation systems and vehicle technology with alternative drive systems. Martin and his team at Fraunhofer IVI (Germany) have a high degree of expertise in engineering of systems, components and software solutions for battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell drives of buses and commercial vehicles. Additionally, IVI supports transport companies in the introduction of electric and hydrogen vehicles by conducting feasibility studies and developing migration concepts and ramp-up scenarios.

초록

Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles (FCHEVs) are vehicles with drivetrains consisting of both battery and fuel cell systems. The reason for including dual power sources can be attributed to the increased energy density demand of the vehicle. While batteries offer a high-power density, they have substantially lower energy densities in comparison to fuel cell systems which lack high power densities. As a result, both systems naturally complement each other in the scope of high-power, high-energy demand applications. Promising fields of application for FCHEVs include heavy long-distance goods transport and special machinery, such as construction machinery with limited access to charging infrastructure or high requirements in terms of range, energy demand and operating times. To make fuel cell drives attractive for these applications, the operating costs must be kept as low as possible in addition to the investment for operators. Both efficiency-enhancing and wear-reducing measures for the components of the powertrain play an important role here throughout the entire operation of the system. To this end, modular, vehicle-based, platform-independent algorithms for controlling and predicting the wear of the fuel cell drive and the battery system is being developed, implemented, and tested.