As part of the ongoing effort to be independent of petroleum resources and to be free from pollutant emission issues, various electric vehicles have been developed and tested through their integration with real world systems. In the current paper, yet another application specific EV for public transportation, an electric bus, is introduced and explained with results from the pilot test program ...

This paper deals with the description of a drone management system for long-term missions called DronePort. First, issue and possible approaches are outlined. Further, individual components proposed system, both hardware, software introduced. The DronePort relies on battery swapping. By storing in compartment, is not strictly designed one type drone, but simple modification, it capable maintain...

The existing Battery Management System (BMS) techniques are examined in this paper and a new design methodology for a reliable BMS is proposed. The main advantage of the proposed BMS compared to the existing systems is that it provides a fault-tolerant capability and battery protection.

In a standalone hybrid wind-diesel-battery system, the battery lifetime is often optimistically overpredicted by hybrid system designers and battery manufacturers. As a result, battery replacement takes place more often than required. One of the reasons is due to the underestimation of battery wear from the short charge-discharge cycles, otherwise known as microcycles. A microcycle takes place ...

In off-grid wind energy systems batteries often undergo frequent charge discharge cycles, which reduce battery service life. In addition, due to motor start and other high ‘inrush current’ loads batteries can also undergo high rates of discharge which also degrade battery life. In this paper, a superconducting magnetic energy storage and battery hybrid energy storage system is proposed which is...