OVERVIEW OF SUPERCAPACITORS & BOOST CONVERTERS USED FOR HYBRID VEHICLE APPLICATIONS

  This paper emphasizes association of super capacitor and battery for ECCE hybrid vehicle. Basically ECCE vehicle is an vehicle developed at L2ES laboratory in collaboration with international research centre in French. The test bench made used lead acid batteries with a rated voltage of 540V, two motors were used, and one was coupled to alternator as a prime mover. The alternator power is then rectified to convert in to DC. The main aim of this paper is to study the power management which is been fed by two super-capacitors pack. While carrying out this experiment each supercapacitor module is of 108 cells with a peak voltage of 270V. The purpose of this experiment was to investigate innovating tests for hybrid vehicle applications. &nbsp