Abstract
Due to the rising concern of environmental problems, fuel cell hybrid power systems have been proposed to be an ideal substitution to diesel engines. However, the hybrid power system has brought many challenges, one of which is the power splitting among different power generation technologies. In this paper, a wavelet transform and fuzzy logic based energy management strategy is proposed for a fuel cell/battery/ultra-capacitor hybrid power cruiser considering their dynamic characteristics. The energy demand of the cruiser is decoupled into different frequencies by wavelet transform and distributed to different energy sources according to their dynamic characteristics. To ensure long-term reliable operation of the hybrid power system, fuzzy logic is proposed to keep the state of charges of the battery and ultra-capacitor within safe range. The proposed energy management strategy is applied to a hybrid power cruiser in MATLAB/Simulink and two cases are studied considering different initial states of charge of the energy storage system. The results show that the proposed energy management strategy enables the fuel cell to supply about 50% of the high frequency power and reduce the peak power supplied by the fuel cell by 80% - 100% when the initial state of charge of the ultra-capacitor is low, and the fuel cell supplies around 400% higher than the low peak power and 20% of the high peak power when the initial state of charge of the battery is low.
Highlights
W ITH increasing attention to environmental protection around the world, great efforts have been made to find an alternative energy instead of using fossil energy in ship industry [1]
The high transient power requirement is decomposed into different frequencies and split to different power sources according to their dynamic performance
The proposed energy management strategies (EMSs) is validated via a fuel cell/battery/ultra-capacitor hybrid power system in MATLAB/Simulink
Summary
W ITH increasing attention to environmental protection around the world, great efforts have been made to find an alternative energy instead of using fossil energy in ship industry [1]. Tang et al [17] proposed a wavelet and rule based EMS for a fuel cell and ultra-capacitor hybrid power ship, in which the rule-based energy management strategy is used to keep state of charges (SOC) of a UC within normal level. Another often used rule-based strategy is fuzzy logic which considers the power demand and SOC of an ESS. A finite state machine based energy management strategy is proposed in [19] for fuel cell/battery/ultra-capacitor powered vehicles.
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