Thesis in progress: DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF A FUEL CELL POWER ARCHITECTURE

Victor MERCIER, class of 2021 and doctoral student in his 3rd year at ESTACA'LAB's S2ET division, will be presenting his thesis work to the ESTACA'LAB team in the near future, giving the Alumni Network the opportunity to honor him and present the subject of his thesis.

Summary:

The development of clean mobility is one of the main objectives of the energy transition. In part, this means integrating new solutions based essentially on the electrification of means of transport. The fuel cell car is one of the key solutions in this transition. Its performance depends on the ability of design methodologies to take account of the multi-physical constraints of its real environment, and on the suitability of technologies, topologies and control/energy management strategies to integrate and combine these components efficiently. In this context, this work focuses on the design and optimization of fuel cell power architectures, taking into account the interactions between sources and associated power electronics. The concepts of diagnostics and service continuity will be explored in this work.

Keywords: Global approach, Multiphysics constraints, Modularity, Interleaved converters, Fuel cell architecture

Supervising team : Mr. AZIB Toufik (Director), Mr. CESCHIA Adriano (Supervisor), Class of 2016, Mr. LAROUCI Chérif (Supervisor)