Date of Award
2016
Publication Type
Master Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.Sc.
Department
Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering
Supervisor
Minaker, Bruce
Rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
In the last years, energy efficiency has been of great concern due to the increasing number of vehicles that is on the road. For this reason, energy recovery systems are being developed. Regenerative dampers, which are a category of these devices, are able to harvest energy coming from the road irregularities. In this way, the energy is no more dissipated into heat by the damper, but it is recovered through an hydraulic pump rigidly connected to an electric generator. The goal of this study is to develop a Matlab and Carsim full-vehicle model of a segment C car with regenerative hydraulic dampers in order to evaluate the improvements that could be obtained in terms of harvested energy and, also, in terms of vehicle comfort and dynamics by properly tuning the damper device. Moreover, an analysis on the CO2 savings will be carried out, considering several driving conditions, with different road roughness profiles and vehicle velocities.
Recommended Citation
Di Vittorio, Marco, "Regenerative damping - Analysis of expected benefits on CO2 emissions and ride-comfort improvement" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 5811.
https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5811