Integrated thermal management of a hybrid electric vehicle
- Science Applications International Corp., La Jolla, CA (United States)
- United Defense L.P., Santa Clara, CA (United States)
A thermal management methodology, based on the Vehicle Integrated Thermal Management Analysis Code (VITMAC), has been developed for a notional vehicle employing the All-Electric Combat Vehicle (AECV) concept. AECV uses a prime power source, such as a diesel, to provide mechanical energy which is converted to electrical energy and stored in a central energy storage system consisting of flywheels, batteries and/or capacitors. The combination of prime power and stored energy powers the vehicle drive system and also advanced weapons subsystems such as an ETC or EM gun, electrically driven lasers, an EM armor system and an active suspension. Every major system is electrically driven with energy reclamation when possible from braking and gun recoil. Thermal management of such a complicated energy transfer and utilization system is a major design consideration due to the substantial heat rejection requirements. In the present paper, an overall integrated thermal management system (TMS) is described which accounts for energy losses from each subsystem component, accepts the heat using multiple coolant loops and expels the heat from the vehicle. VITMAC simulations are used to design the TMS and to demonstrate that a conventional TMS approach is capable of successfully handling vehicle heat rejection requirements under stressing operational conditions.
- OSTI ID:
- 308136
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 35, Issue 1Pt1; Other Information: DN: Paper presented at the 9. symposium on electromagnetic launch technology, May 13--15, 1998, Edinburgh (GB); PBD: Jan 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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