Recent Results on Liquid Fuelled APU for Truck Application Ballard Power Systems

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Venturi, M., author.

Conference Name:

SAE 2003 World Congress & Exhibition (2003-03-03 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2003

Summary:

A liquid fuelled, fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU) can provide efficient, quiet and low pollution power for a variety of applications including commercial and military vehicles.Truck idling regulation, customer comfort or military "stealth" operation by using electrical power, require a device disconnected from the main diesel engine. The power can be utilized for air conditioning as well as other auxiliary systems found on board commercial trucks for driver comfort. In a military vehicle, this regulated power could be supplied to telecommunication and other computer equipment required for military operations.A system designed to be an add-on or retrofit solution using alternative fuel can have the potential to meet these requirements on the hundreds of thousands of existing vehicles currently in service or as optional equipment on a newly procured vehicle.This paper highlights the test bench main results, simulation analysis and the vehicle installation analysis, which were undertaken as part of a cooperative research and development program between Ballard Power Systems, Freightliner, the University of Alabama and the US Army

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Publisher Number:

2003-01-0266

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