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        Projects:

        

Fuel Cell Power Sources

Novel Solar Array Configuration for Enhanced Power Generation

Development of a Digitally-Controlled Fuel-Cell Powered Battery Charging Station

Development of an Automatic Energy Recovery System for Partially-Spent Batteries

Control Strategies Development of an Actively-Controlled Hybrid Fuel Cell/Battery Power Source

Dynamic Battery Modeling for System Study


Ph.D. student Mark Blackwelder prepares to test  a 35W fuel cell hybrid power source

            

Graduate students and research faculty

associated with the power sources laboratory

A new permanent magnet motor on the test stand

 

 

Ph.D.  student Teems Lovett building

a permanent  magnet motor

 

 

Facilities of the Power Source Laboratory:

 

Equipment in the power sources laboratory, including dSpace controller.

Programmable power sources and loads

Motor testing equipment

        -

10kw DC power supplies;

  - Programmable power supply with GPIB interface;
  - Programmable electronic load with GPIB interface;
  - Digital oscilloscopes, including one with Ethernet port ;
  - LabVIEW hardware and software;
  - dSPACE controller hardware and software;
  - H-Power 35 W PEM fuel cell stack;
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Various batteries (Li-Ion, Zn-Air, LiSO2, Alkaline, etc.);

  - Supercapacitors;
  - DC-to-DC power converters;
  - Precision motors;
  - Precision dynamometer for testing machines  of 100 W – 20 kW;
  - Precision torque transducers covering the range 0.1 – 200 Nm ;
  - Permanent magnet dc motor;
  - Reluctance motor;
  - Miscellaneous computers.

 

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