Browsing Theses by Subject "Battery"
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Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Energy Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-09)Energy infrastructure systems -- including energy generation, transmission, and distribution systems -- provide consumers with access to energy. Energy systems have been relatively static for several decades but due to ... -
Battery Degradation Modeling For Vehicle Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Fuel efficiency is a fundamental part of the automotive industry and its impact on the global environment. This is a direct result of the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) standards imposing a 70% improvement of ... -
Design and Evaluation of Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Electric Powertrains
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-30)At the time of this writing, increasing pressure for fuel efficient passenger vehicles has prompted automotive manufactures to invest in the research and development of electrically propelled vehicles. This includes vehicles ... -
Design of a Battery State Estimator Using a Dual Extended Kalman Filter
(University of Waterloo, 2011-02-14)Today's automotive industry is undergoing significant changes in technology due to economic, political and environmental pressures. The shift from conventional internal combustion vehicles to hybrid and plug in hybrid ... -
Experimental and modeling investigation of thermal behaviour and performance of lithium ion prismatic cells at cold-start temperatures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-05)This thesis examines the thermal behaviour of prismatic lithium iron-phosphate (LFP) cells and batteries and the influence of that behaviour on discharge performance under cold-start operating conditions representative of ... -
Hybrid Fuel Cell Vehicle Powertrain Development Considering Power Source Degradation
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)Vehicle design and control is an attractive area of research in that it embodies a convergence of societal need, technical limitation, and emerging capability. Environmental, political, and monetary concerns are driving ... -
A Hydrogen Hybrid Powertrain for the Union-Pearson Railway
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-10)Canadian legislation attempts to regulate particle emissions released from the rail transportation sector. Assessment of the impact of rolling stock is the key to perform such regulations. Different strategies have been ... -
The Impact of Degradation Reactions on Aprotic Metal-O2 Battery Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-18)The need for new portable energy storage technologies places increasing demand on the development of new batteries beyond Li-ion. Potential candidates to fill this necessity are the class of metal-O2 batteries. In particular, ... -
Mathematical Modeling of Rechargeable Hybrid Aqueous Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-04)A rechargeable hybrid aqueous battery (ReHAB) system was recently developed by our research group. It has been improved via different experimental approaches, but nobody yet has tried to use mathematical modeling techniques ... -
Nanostructured Carbons and Additives for Improvement of the Lithium-Sulfur Battery Positive Electrode
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-19)Large specific gravimetric/volumetric energy density, environmental benignity and safe low working voltage. All of these points have been used to describe the lithium sulfur (Li-S) battery in the past, but often times it ... -
Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Materials as Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts for Metal-Air Fuel Cells and Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-09)Metal air battery has captured the spotlight recently as a promising class of sustainable energy storage for the future energy systems. Metal air batteries offer many attractive features such as high energy density, ... -
Structurally Enhanced Electrodes for Redox Flow Batteries Produced via Electrospinning
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-29)The vanadium redox flow battery is one of the most promising secondary batteries for energy storage system due to its design flexibility attributed to the large adjustable capacity of the storage tanks filled with electrolyte ... -
Vehicle Battery Pack Design and Considerations for Repurposing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-28)The market for hybrid and electric vehicles is expanding with the rise of gas prices and desires to curb climate change. With the creation of these complex systems comes the development of advanced battery systems which ...