Tutorial 3

8:00am – 12 :15pm, Monday, September 2009

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Transportation 2.0

Dr. Ali Emadi , Harris Perlstein Endowed Chair Professor and Director, Electric Power and Power Electronics Center and Grainger Laboratories,

 Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

E-mail: emadi@iit.edu; URL: https://hybrid.iit.edu/

Founder and President, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA

E-mail: emadi@hevt.com; URL: https://hevt.com/

How do we reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, address global warming, and start improving our electric power grid infrastructure—all while creating innovative new markets and sustainable solutions for the auto industry? The answer, which is both the greatest economic challenge and opportunity of our time, is in the area of energy. Transportation is at the heart of this challenge. A key component of any practical solution must include electrification of the transportation sector. Electricity is cleaner, cheaper, and domestically produced. Due to recent technology innovations, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technology is the best practical solution and the proposed sustainable approach includes integrating the transportation industry with the electric power industry through a smart grid and generating electricity from carbon-free and renewable energy sources. This is in fact the already-started paradigm shift in transportation by enabling domestic, clean electricity to replace petroleum—Transportation 2.0.

This presentation gives an overview of the current status and future trends in the transportation industry. The motivation for the research, development, and commercialization of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) will be explained. The presentation is mainly focused on drive train configurations and presents a review of conversion strategies to hybridize different vehicles. In addition, different PHEV configurations and business models will be presented with a focus on engineering fundamentals as well as state-of-the-art research and development in the areas of system components and integration.

In this presentation, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) aspects as well as plug-in issues of the power electronic chargers will be reviewed. Energy storage systems including Li-ion and NiMH batteries and their associated electronics and electronic control units will be described as well. Hybridizing the energy storage systems using ultra-capacitors will be presented as an attractive possibility for not only fast charge applications, but also extreme cold conditions.

Throughout the presentation, related component-level as well as system-level challenges are explained and possible solutions are recommended. Unprecedented opportunities in the areas of power electronics, electric motor drives, energy storage, system control, and hybrid electro-mechanical drive trains will be highlighted together with the power grid unique prospects.

Biography: Dr. Ali Emadi is the Harris Perlstein Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and the director of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center and Grainger Laboratories at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, where he has established research and teaching facilities as well as courses in power electronics, motor drives, and vehicular power systems. In addition, Dr. Emadi is the founder, president, and chief technology officer of Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technologies, Inc. (HEVT). He is also the founder, director, and chairman of the board of the Industry/Multi-university Consortium on Advanced Automotive Systems (IMCAAS).

Dr. Emadi is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions. He has been named as a Chicago Matters Global Visionary in 2009. He has been named the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year 2003 (single international award) by virtue of his outstanding contributions to hybrid electric vehicle conversion by the Electrical Engineering Honor Society. He also received the 2005 Richard M. Bass Outstanding Young Power Electronics Engineer Award from the IEEE Power Electronics Society. In 2005, he was selected as the Best Professor of the Year by the students at IIT. Dr. Emadi is the recipient of the 2002 University Excellence in Teaching Award from IIT as well as the 2004 Sigma Xi/IIT Award for Excellence in University Research. He directed a team of students to design and build a novel motor drive, which won the First Place Overall Award of the 2003 IEEE/DOE/DOD International Future Energy Challenge for Motor Competition.

Dr. Emadi is the principal author/co-author of over 250 journal and conference papers as well as several books including Vehicular Electric Power Systems: Land, Sea, Air, and Space Vehicles (Marcel Dekker, 2003), Energy Efficient Electric Motors (Marcel Dekker, 2004), Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Active Filters (CRC Press, 2004), Modern Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, Theory, and Design (CRC Press, 2004), and Integrated Power Electronic Converters and Digital Control (CRC Press, 2009). Dr. Emadi is also the editor of the Handbook of Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives (Marcel Dekker, 2005).

Dr. Emadi was the founding General Chair of the 1^st IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC’05), which was co-located under his chairmanship with the SAE International Future Transportation Technology Conference. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Steering Committee, Chair of the Technical Committee on Transportation Power Electronics of the IEEE Power Electronics Society, and Chair of the Power Electronics Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He has also served as the Chair of the prestigious International Future Energy Challenge.

Dr. Emadi is the Editor (North America) of the International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles. He has been the Guest Editor-in-Chief of the Special Issue on Automotive Power Electronics and Motor Drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. He has also been the Guest Editor of the Special Section on Hybrid Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Guest Editor of the Special Section on Automotive Electronics and Electrical Drives, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.