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Special Session #2: - VPPC 2020

IEEE VPPC Electric and Hybrid Buses Level 1: Components Level

Co-chair: Paulo G. Pereirinha, University of Coumbra, Portugal
Co-chair: Feng Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Call For Papers

The road transport decarbonization’s challenge is seen to be spearheaded by road public transport, due to its advantageous characteristics. However, fossil fuel public transportation contributes significantly to city pollution, and there is a growing search for proper solutions to these issues. Among the available alternative technologies, several studies have point out hybrid and full-electric buses as very valuable options. This is leading to an increasing demand from governments and cities followed by a growing effort from most bus manufacturers to offer competitive and suitable electric buses. Proposals using different battery chemistries, mostly based on lithium but not only, with different voltage levels, battery capacities and ranges, focused on night slow charge or fast and/or ultrafast opportunistic charge, cable or pantograph conducted or wireless charging systems, hybridization of the battery with energy storage systems as ultra-capacitors or hydrogen fuel cells, with the required energy management system, fleet management proposals and total cost of ownership analysis to evaluate de viability of the integration are appearing at an ever-increasing pace.

This double special session, is focused on addressing these questions, especially for full-electric buses (EB), of all sizes, but including also plug-in hybrid electric buses (PHEB) and Hybrid Electric Buses (HEB). This particular session is related with Components level. Please check also the topics of SPECIAL SESSION II ON ELECTRIC (AND HYBRID) BUSES: SYSTEM LEVEL, and choose the most suitable special session to submit your paper.

Topics of interest include, for full electric and plug-in hybrid electric buses, but are not limited to:

Component level

  • Components simulation and modeling
  • Power converter topologies (Traction Power and Distribution, Overhead Contact Systems, and Other Feeding Systems)
  • Powertrain design (power electronics, regenerative braking and motor)
  • Motors, predictive control and application
  • System level reliability
  • Environmental and System Requirements
  • Functional safety for battery management system and battery packs
  • Charging systems components
  • Standardization for Standardization for electric EB and PHEB
  • Influence of fast/ultra-fast opportunist charging on storage systems lifetime and efficiency

 

Paulo G. Pereirinha Bio: Paulo G. Pereirinha received his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. Since 1995, he has been with the Polytechnic of Coimbra – Coimbra Institute of Engineering (IPC-ISEC), where he is currently a Coordinator Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering. His classes and research interests include electrical machines, electric vehicles, electromechanical drives, finite elements, and renewable energies, being (co)author of more than 100 papers on international journals and conferences. Prof. Pereirinha is Senior Member of IEEE, and was General Chair of IEEE VPPC 2014, Publication Chair of VPPC 2015 and Award-Committee Chair of VPPC 2016. He is a member of the Vehicular Power Propulsion Standing Advisory Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, VTS. He is a researcher at INESC Coimbra and member of the Executive Board of the Portuguese Electric Vehicle Association, APVE.

 

Feng Wang Bio:  Feng Wang,IEEE Senior Member, Associate Professor of the of Dept. Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. From November 2010 to November 2012, he was in Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. His currently with the State Key Laboratory of Electrical Insulation and Power Equipment at Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research interest includes High Performance power electronics transformer, renewable energy generation and reliability of power electronics system, being (co)author of more than 70 papers on top ranked peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Submission Deadline: 8 June 2020
Acceptance notification: 17 July 2020
Final paper submission deadline: 7 August 2020

To submit papers for this Special Session, please visit:
https://vppc2020.trackchair.com/track/1901