Special Session #3: Performance Optimization of Fuel Cell Systems for Heavy-Duty Electric Transportation

Co-Organizer: Hanqing Wang, Tongji University, China
Co-Organizer: Zhongliang Li, University of Franche-Comté, France
Co-Organizer: Daniel Hissel, University of Franche-Comté, France

Call for Papers

Fuel cells have been developed rapidly and applied widely in the field of transportation electrification benefiting from the advantages of high efficiency, low noise and zero emission.

Heavy-duty (HD) electric transportation, e.g., electric bus, truck, rail and marine applications, due to the high-power requirements and the special load characteristics, has imposed distinctive challenges in optimizing fuel cell system performance. Specific research topics have been thus evoked and attracting increasing attention in both fuel cell and electric vehicle communities. For instance, the optimal design of the structure (thermal field, liquid field, and electrical field) and control strategy for high-power system has been extensively studied. Multiple fuel cell (MFC) power module system has been particularly studied for HD electric vehicles to increase the system power level, redundancy, and lifetime and to reduce costs. Prognostic and Health Management (PHM), dedicated to evaluating and predicting the state of health (SOH) of fuel cells and balance of plant equipment, has also started receiving special attention.

This special session, therefore, aims at providing a research forum for those working on fuel cell electric vehicle, especially in heavy-duty electric transportation, to exchange their recent findings as well as new ideas, and discuss future topics and potential collaborations. Both theoretical and application-driven studies are warmly welcome for participation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• Prognostic and Health Management of fuel cell systems for heavy-duty electric transportation
• Aging consistency of fuel cell systems
• Fuel economy for fuel cell based heavy-duty electric transportation
• MFC system’s structure optimization: thermal field, liquid field, and electrical field
• Power converter for high-power fuel cell and MFC systems: design and control
• Hardware-in-the-Loop and experimental validation of high-power fuel cell and MFC systems

 

Co-Organizer’s Bios:

Hanqing Wang

Bio: Hanqing Wang (M’22) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), Xi’an, China, in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC), Belfort, France, in 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with labs FEMTO-ST (UMR CNRS 6174) and FCLAB (UAR CNRS), Belfort, France. Since 2021, he has been an Assistant Professor with Department of Electrical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include health and energy management of fuel cell systems in transportation applications, and modeling, control and design of power converters.

 

Zhongliang Li

Bio: Zhongliang Li (M’14) received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Automation from the University of Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France, in September 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Labs FEMTO-ST (UMR CNRS 6174) and FCLAB (CNRS 3539), Belfort, France. From 2016 to 2022, he was an Associate Professor with Lab LIS (UMR CNRS 7020), Aix-Marseille University. Since 2022, he has been a junior professor chair at the University of Franche-Comté. His research interests include modeling, control, diagnosis, and prognosis with applications to fuel cell and electrolyser systems, electric vehicles, and other energy systems.

 

Daniel Hissel

Bio: Prof. Daniel Hissel (M’02, SM’04, F’22) obtained an electrical engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Electriciens de Grenoble, France, in 1994. Then, he obtained a PhD from the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France, in 1998. Until 2000, he worked for ALSTOM Company where he was system engineer on electrical and fuel cell buses projects. From 2000 to 2006, he has been an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Belfort. Since 2006, he is a Full Professor at the University of Franche-Comté and ranked as “Exceptional Class Professor” (highest ranking in France). Since 2012, he is the Head of the “Electric Actuators, Hybrid & Fuel Cell Systems” research team in FEMTO-ST (CNRS) Institute. His main research activities are concerning hydrogen-energy systems dedicated to automotive and stationary applications, modelling, non linear control, energy optimization and state-of-health estimation of these systems. Between 2012 and 2019, he has been the founding Director of the FCLAB Research Federation (CNRS), devoted to Fuel Cell Systems Research and Technology. Since 2020, he is the Deputy Director of the French national hydrogen research federation (CNRS), gathering about 300 researchers on hydrogen technologies in France. He is involved in many IEEE activities, as general chair of conferences, co-chair of conferences, member of scientific & technical committees. He has published more than 500 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals and/or international conferences. He has been awarded by the Blondel Medal in 2017 for his work towards industrialisation of fuel cell systems. He has also been awarded by the Innovation Medal of the CNRS in 2020 for his exceptional research work that has led to ground-breaking innovation in the technological field.

 

Submission Deadline: 17 April 2023
Acceptance notification: 5 July 2023
Final paper submission deadline EXTENDED: 5 August 2023

To submit a paper to this session, please visit: https://vppc2023.trackchair.com/