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The H2Hybrid Fuel Cell Automotive Trainer is the ultimate tool for exploring science and engineering concepts through hands-on activities with a working fuel cell car. An impressive array of hardware, software, and digital curricular materials allow for hours of activities for students of everything from high school vocational-technical up through college-level engineering.
Engineer new solutions for optimization of car’s performance
Examine the three fields of energy management
Comprehend hybrid propulsion technology and work to minimize environmental impacts
Learn about data acquisition and discover how to manipulate, analyze and interpret graphs and data gathered from the car on the road and on the bench
Understand the expected performance of a fuel cell system and how to get to optimum operation
Explore the difference between expected performance and experimental results
Features
MONITORING BOARD
Touch screen LCD display for choosing data recorded and displaying real time graphs.
Measure voltage and current from the motor, fuel cell and battery, as well as distance travelled Included SD card stores the data as a .csv file
Data can also be transferred in real time to PC for analysis
ROLLER TEST BENCH
Measure the braking force under different conditions, with servo
Real-time measurement from monitoring board
Car acceleration and brake rollers controlled by the remote control
SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER MODELS
Modeling for SYSML, PSIM, OpenModelica, MATLAB, and Excel
Diagram of a complete Hydrogen Hybrid Car
Modeling of energy flow
LabVIEW dashboard with real-time graphs of speed, current, and braking force
LAbVIEW data collected: speed, battery voltage, fuel cell voltage, current, motor voltage, battery charge
Lesson plans
Students and teachers’ material
6 months of curriculum in physics, chemistry and engineering
Hands-on experiments and problem based learning