Open AccessA Review on Design and Development of Free Piston Linear Generators in Hybrid Vehicles
Author(s) -
Souvik Singh Rathore,
Sukumar Mishra,
Manikant Paswan,
; Sanjay
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/691/1/012053
Subject(s) - automotive engineering , piston (optics) , renewable energy , battery (electricity) , electricity , range (aeronautics) , hybrid power , driving range , regenerative brake , generator (circuit theory) , electric generator , miles per gallon gasoline equivalent , engineering , power (physics) , green vehicle , electrical engineering , fuel efficiency , brake , aerospace engineering , physics , optics , wavefront , quantum mechanics
The rapid exploitation of fossil fuels due to their indiscriminate use has brought us to a situation when we cannot sustain the use of fuels like petrol and diesel for more than 30 years from now. Governments and energy companies around the world are looking for some alternative source of energy to power the vehicles. A lot of research is being carried out in this field and many researchers have concluded that hybrid vehicles can be a boon to eradicating the dependence on conventional fuels and move towards battery-aided power trains for running the vehicles. Today, there are a few electric vehicles on roads but in the near future the roads are going to be flooded by them. To propel them, we need batteries which should be charged at some intervals. In absence of battery charging stations, we would need range extending devices on the vehicles itself. A Free Piston Linear Generator (FPLG) is an electric generator which produces electricity by virtue of oscillation of a free piston in a cylinder and it can be used as a range extending device and alternative energy converter in a hybrid vehicle. Using an FPLG will be a new approach to optimize combustion process and thus it can not only help in low exhaust emissions but also in using new renewable fuels due to their capability of variable compression ratios. This paper is a review on the design and development of FPLG system for hybrid vehicles as an inevitable source of energy in near future.