Analysis of powertrain design on effective waste heat recovery from conventional and hybrid electric vehicles

A. Shabashevich, N. Richards, J. Hwang and P.A. Erickson

Applied Energy, 2015, vol. 157, issue C, 754-761

Abstract: The growing need for efficient vehicles has led many researchers to explore various ways to utilize waste heat from the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) to improve vehicle fuel economy. Past efforts in Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) have focused primarily on recovering waste heat from Conventional Vehicles (CV), which dissipate more than two-thirds of the fuel energy as waste heat. In general, WHR has always been considered as a secondary component to the vehicle powertrain and as a result it has had little success, particularly in light-duty vehicles. This investigation explores WHR from a broader perspective to better understand the possibilities and limits of WHR from CVs to future highly hybridized vehicles.

Keywords: Waste Heat Recovery; Hybrid Electric Vehicles; Powertrain configuration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.02.067

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