New High Power Density Hybrid Drive Package Family for the Rail and the Automotive Applications with Energy Storage Capabilities

由于当地和全球变暖问题，以及汽油和柴油价格飙升；对绿色高效的汽车、地铁和铁路机车的需求是永无止境的。该研究计划将引入创新的绿色高效推进驱动套件，并将服务于汽车、铁路地铁和机车部门。该项目还将集成无线电力传输技术，为铁路和汽车提供动力。在铁路行业，这将是革命性的，因为它将消除对道旁电力系统变电站和轨道的需求。这意味着运输系统的运营成本将大幅降低。将开发新的软件包，以确保基于车辆重量和路线负载周期的驱动包设计成功。该团队将以多学科的眼光研究电机、逆变器、电池和接口算法。这将允许培训电机设计人员，逆变器开发人员和具有软件编程能力的机电集成商。在研究项目中，将开发新型驱动封装，在运动过程中，功率流向逆变器/电机，制动能量通过双向逆变器反馈到电池，直至零转速，从而延长摩擦制动寿命。储能介质可以是电池、超级电容器（SC）、飞轮或它们的组合。解决方案的选择取决于驾驶模式、路线和重量。该计划的目标是：(1)为混合燃料电池(FC)/电池车辆设计动力系统示例，以提高燃油效率并减少向环境排放的主要污染物；(2)构建代表任何城市（如多伦多、温哥华）的行驶模式或轨道路线的软件包，并将其用于设计和验证车辆和路线模型；(3)建立试验台，缩小并将任何内燃机（ICE）车辆转换为混合动力FC/电池/SC车辆。该项目将在以下方面对加拿大产生重大影响：(1)在当地建立研究专业知识和基础设施；(2)通过创造就业机会和将开发的技术作为非利基产品使用，对UOIT社区的影响；(3)减少污染。本研究项目将以申请人较强的高素质人才培养历史为基础，培养3名博士、8名硕士、4名本科生，进行电机设计、逆变器搭建、组件集成接口算法编程；所有人都在密切关注业绩的改善。该研究项目不仅将专注于动力系统的更好选择，这已经引起了巨大的研究关注，而且还将关注电源管理的智能技术，更好的封装和控制算法，申请人在这些方面拥有丰富的工业/学术经验。

Driven by the local and global warming problem, and the soaring prices of gas and diesel; there is relentless need for green and efficient cars, metros as well as rail locomotives. The research program will introduce innovative green and efficient propulsion drive packages and will serve the automotive and the rail's metro and locomotive sectors. This program will also integrate the wireless power transfer technology in powering rail and automotive cars. In the rail industry, this will be revolutionary as it will eliminate the need of the wayside power system substations and rails. This means a disruptive cost savings in the operation of transit systems. New software packages will be developed to guarantee successful design of drive packages based on vehicle weight and route load cycles. The team will work on motors, inverters, batteries, and interface algorithms with a multidisciplinary vision. This will allow the training of motor designers, inverter developers, and electromechanical integrators with software programming capabilities. In the research program, novel drive packages will be developed, where during motoring, the power flows to the inverter/motor with the braking energy fed back to the battery through the bidirectional inverter until zero speed, resulting in a longer friction brake life span. The energy storage media can be a battery, super capacitors (SC), a flywheel or a combination of them. The selection of the solution relies on the driving pattern, route and weight. The objectives of the program are to (1) design an example of a power train for a hybrid fuel cell (FC)/battery vehicle that improves fuel efficiency and reduces the main pollutants emitted to the environment; (2) build software packages that represent the driving pattern or rail alignment in any city, such as Toronto and Vancouver, and use it in designing and validating vehicle and route models; and (3) build test bench that scales down and transform any internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle to hybrid FC/battery/SC vehicle. This program will have a major impact on Canada, in terms of (1) the establishment of research expertise and infrastructure in the local area; (2) the impact on the UOIT community through creating jobs and the use of the developed technologies as non-niche products; (3) and pollution reduction. This research program, based on the applicant's strong high qualified personnel training history, will train 3 Ph.D, 8 M.Sc, and 4 undergraduate students to design a motor, build an inverter, and program interface algorithms for integrating the components together; all with wide eyes on performance improvement. This research program will not only focus on better options for the power train, which has attracted huge research attention, but also intelligent techniques for power management, better packaging, and control algorithms, in which the applicant possesses extensive industrial/academic experience.