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Special Session #2: Electric (Battery, Fuel Cell and Hybrid) Buses - VPPC 2021

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IEEE VPPC 2021 SPECIAL SESSION ON ELECTRIC (BATTERY, FUEL CELL AND HYBRID) BUSES

Co-chair: Paulo G. Pereirinha, Polytechnic of Coimbra and INESC Coimbra (Coimbra/Portugal)
Co-chair: Andoni Saez de Ibarra, IKERLAN Technology Research Centre (Basque Country/Spain)

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 pointed out hybrid and full-electric buses as very valuable options, however, for decarbonizing the most demanding routes, fuel cell buses are gaining popularity. 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 the viability of the integration are appearing at an ever-increasing pace.
This 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), Fuel Cell Buses (FCB) and Hybrid Electric Buses (HEB).
Topics of interest include, for full electric and plug-in hybrid electric buses, but are not limited to:

  • Power-train system simulation and modeling
  • EB, FCB and PHEB with multi-storage systems design and management
  • Energy storage systems integration and management
  • Total cost of ownership studies
  • Fleet management
  • Chargers location and scheduling
  • Real cases of electric buses exploitation experiences and defies
  • Bus tests and measurements
  • Cities public transport electrification analysis
  • Retrofitting or upgrade of powertrain and storage systems
  • Urban mobility studies
  • 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

 

 

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.

 

Andoni Saez de Ibarra Bio: Andoni Saez de Ibarra received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics from the University of Mondragon, Spain, in 2009 and 2012, respectively, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, in 2012, and the PhD degree from the Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, in 2016. In 2012, he joined the Control Engineering and Power Electronics Department of Ikerlan Technology Research Centre where he carried out the PhD work and in 2016 he moved to the Energy Storage and Management Department, where he is participating in several industrial and research projects as a researcher and project manager. In Ikerlan, he is the responsible of the ASSURED European project, which tackles with the interoperability and the fast charging of the electric urban buses and its impact in smart grids. His research interests include the optimal energy management and sizing of storage systems applied in several applications such as electromobility, renewable energies and smart grids.

Submission Deadline: 10 May 2021
Acceptance notification: 5 July 2021
Final paper submission deadline: 2 August 2021

To submit papers for this Special Session, please visit: https://vppc2021.trackchair.com/track/1995