IRI - Optimization-based thermal control strategy for auxiliary cooling circuits in fuel cell vehicles

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Optimization-based thermal control strategy for auxiliary cooling circuits in fuel cell vehicles

Journal Article (2023)

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

Pages

2734-2743

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TTE.2022.3219262

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L-BEST: Supervision and fault-tolerant control of smart infrastructures based on advanced learning and optimization
MASHED: Efficient Management of Energy Systems including Hybrid Electrochemical Energy Storage using Digitalisation Technologies

Abstract

In this research work, a thermal management concept for the auxiliary components in fuel cell vehicles is discussed. A control-oriented model of the subsystem under analysis is developed and then used as basis for controller development. Two control strategies are implemented and compared. The first is a PI-controller strategy and it is used as a baseline for performance comparison. The second is an optimization-based controller (OBC) strategy focused on minimizing the power consumption of the main actuator. The OBC features a novel steady-state observer (SSO) developed for thermal circuits and provides an estimation of the steady-state conditions and conveniently simplifies the optimization problem by disregarding the dynamics of the states so that it can be implemented online with lower computational burden. Comparisons between PI-control strategy and OBC demonstrate the OBC's capabilities in overcoming typical problems associated with the PI-control strategy including high power consumption of the actuators and temperature constraint violations under particular operating conditions.

Author keywords

thermal management, fuel cells, optimisation-based control

Scientific reference

Y.O. Eldigair, C. Kunusch and C. Ocampo-Martínez. Optimization-based thermal control strategy for auxiliary cooling circuits in fuel cell vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 9(2): 2734-2743, 2023.