Full-electric boats are an expression of recent advancements in the area of vessel electrifi-cation. The installed batteries can suffer from poor cold-start performance, especially in the frigid season and at higher latitudes, leading to driving power limitations immediately after startup. At state, the leading solution is to adopt a dedicated heater placed on the common cooling/heating circuit; this implies poor volume, weight, and cost figures, given the very limited duty cycle of such a part. The Heater-in-Converter (HiC) technology allows removing this specialized component, ex-ploiting the power electronics converters already available on board: HiC modulates their efficiency to produce valuable heat (pseudo-cogeneration). In this work, we use the model-based approach to design this system, which requires heating power minimization to fulfill power electronics limitations, while guaranteeing the user-expected startup time to full power. A multistage model is used to get the yearly vessel temperature distribution from latitude information and some additional data. Then, a lumped parameter for the cooling/heating circuit is used to determine the minimum required power as a function of the properties of the thermal interface material used for the battery coupling. The design is validated on a 1:5 test bench (battery power and energy), which demonstrates how the technology can be to scaled up to also fit different boats and battery sizes.

Model-based design of a pseudo-cogenerative heating system for e-boat battery cold start / Fusai, D.; Soldati, A.; Lusignani, D.; Santarelli, P.; Patroncini, P.. - In: ENERGIES. - ISSN 1996-1073. - 14:4(2021), p. 1022.1022. [10.3390/en14041022]

Model-based design of a pseudo-cogenerative heating system for e-boat battery cold start

Fusai D.;Soldati A.
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Lusignani D.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

Full-electric boats are an expression of recent advancements in the area of vessel electrifi-cation. The installed batteries can suffer from poor cold-start performance, especially in the frigid season and at higher latitudes, leading to driving power limitations immediately after startup. At state, the leading solution is to adopt a dedicated heater placed on the common cooling/heating circuit; this implies poor volume, weight, and cost figures, given the very limited duty cycle of such a part. The Heater-in-Converter (HiC) technology allows removing this specialized component, ex-ploiting the power electronics converters already available on board: HiC modulates their efficiency to produce valuable heat (pseudo-cogeneration). In this work, we use the model-based approach to design this system, which requires heating power minimization to fulfill power electronics limitations, while guaranteeing the user-expected startup time to full power. A multistage model is used to get the yearly vessel temperature distribution from latitude information and some additional data. Then, a lumped parameter for the cooling/heating circuit is used to determine the minimum required power as a function of the properties of the thermal interface material used for the battery coupling. The design is validated on a 1:5 test bench (battery power and energy), which demonstrates how the technology can be to scaled up to also fit different boats and battery sizes.
2021
Model-based design of a pseudo-cogenerative heating system for e-boat battery cold start / Fusai, D.; Soldati, A.; Lusignani, D.; Santarelli, P.; Patroncini, P.. - In: ENERGIES. - ISSN 1996-1073. - 14:4(2021), p. 1022.1022. [10.3390/en14041022]
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