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Après avoir fait un bilan bibliographique des réalisations, des modèles analytiques et numériques dumoteur Stirling, on fait un point sur les applications possibles de ce moteur ce qui permet de décrire lecontexte de cette thèse : la cogénération.Les éléments historiques de la bibliographie montrent que le régénérateur est un des éléments essentielssur lequel on peut travailler pour améliorer les performances d’un moteur Stirling.Suite à cela on fait une proposition d’architecture moteur potentiellement capable d’apporter desaméliorations sur 3 difficultés essentielles dans la conception d’un tel moteur.Parmi ces 3 éléments, l’un d’eux concerne le régénérateur qui est alors re-baptisé « partageur »poursignifier sa particularité.La suite des travaux évalue le bénéfice que pourrait apporter le partageur sur le rendement du moteur.On réalise alors une double évaluation de l’effet du partageur au moyen d’un modèle analytique et d’unmodèle numérique. On aura au préalable décrit les bases de ces modèles et les modifications apportées.La conclusion n’est pas qu’un bilan des résultats et propose des perspectives originales qui vont bienau-delà de ce qui peut être fait actuellement en mécanique / After a state-of-the art presentation on achievements, analytical and numerical models of the Stirlingengine, we analyze the possible applications of this engine which allows describing the context of thisthesis : the cogeneration.Historical elements of the bibliography show that the regenerator is a key element on which we canwork to improve the performance of a Stirling engine.After that we make a proposal for engine design that is potentially able to make improvements on threekey challenges in designing such an engine.One of the three elements is the regenerator, named here sharer.Further work shows the potential benefit that the sharer could bring on the engine performance.A double assessment of the effect of the sharer using an analytical model and a numerical model isthen carried out. We precisely describe the basics of these models and propose modifications.The conclusion is not only an assessment of results but it offers original insights that could go beyondwhat can be done now in mechanical engineering.

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Stringent government mandates for the fuel economy and emissions of light-duty consumer vehicles have forced manufacturers to focus on improvements in these areas. Increased consumer pressure has also shifted the automobile market towards higher efficiency vehicles. This study investigates the use of intelligent engine peripheral control to improve fuel efficiency and reduce vehicle emissions. The conventional automotive alternator control strategy contributes to higher overall vehicle losses and increased fuel consumption through indiscriminate loading of the engine. The improved method focuses on the selective reduction of engine loading and the recapture of vehicle energy during braking using intelligent control of the alternator system. The concept was demonstrated on the Mississippi State University Challenge X hybrid vehicle. The fuel economy and NOx emissions of the vehicle were improved by 6.6% and 10.5% respectively over the drive cycle developed by the 2006 Mississippi State University Challenge X team to evaluate emissions.

This Master thesis deals with the measurement and description of the synchronous generator , which is located in laboratories. First, the thesis deals with the theory of synchronous machines. This is followed by a detailed description of the involvement of laboratory genetatory unit. Subsequently, the work deals with the measurement of basic parameters of the synchronous machine and also quite thoroughly devoted to displaying transients at various levels on the digital oscilloscope. The dissertation aims to compare theoretical ideas with the measured results. Finally, it is shown what could be measured next to the generator set.

An alternator is a self-stabilizing system which consists of a network of concurrent processors. One of its properties is that any two processors of an alternator system cannot execute the critical step at the same time if they are adjacent. This exclusion property transforms the alternator design problem into the coloring problem. And an alternator is said to be 1-fair if no processor executes the critical step twice when one or more other processors have not executed the critical step yet. The simplicity of routing message and the capability of fault tolerance of de Bruijn networks attract us to design 1-fair alternator on them. In this thesis, two algorithms are proposed to solve the coloring problem on the de Bruijn network. The first one uses $2ceil{log_2k}+1$ colors to color the $k$-ary de Bruijn graph with two digits, while the second one uses $p+1$ only colors, where ${{p-1}choose{floor{(p-1)/2}}} < k leq {pchoose{floor{p/2}}}$. We also prove that the second coloring method is optimal when $k = {pchoose{floor{p/2}}}$. In other words, the chromatic number of the $k$-ary de Bruijn graph with two digits is $p+1$, where $k = {pchoose{floor{p/2}}}$. Furthermore, the extension of our coloring method can be applied to the $k$-ary de Bruijn graph with three or more digits.

This thesis proposes improved techniques for controlling of induction machine based integrated starter alternator in order to achieve the challenging requirements of future automotive on-board power system. The proposed techniques are focused on improving DC voltage regulation, maximum power extraction and efficiency improvements. A new sophisticated DC voltage controller that provides tight voltage regulation is proposed. The proposed controller is based on a linearized model for the combined inverter and induction machine. The proposed DC controller is included with speed and flux decoupling and an antiwindup technique. Extensive simulation and experimental results demonstrate the excellent DC voltage control performance of the proposed DC controller over a wide speed range and under various operating conditions. This thesis proposes an improved field weakening implementation which is based on stator voltage control for maximum power extraction in generation mode. The controllers in proposed implementation included use a non-linear dynamic compensator (NDC), stator frequency decoupling and an anti-windup technique. This thesis investigates and eliminates the oscillation in high speed field weakening region caused when large loads are applied. The proposed implementation also provides better regulation for the stator voltage and stable operation over a wide speed range in the generation mode of the ISA. The proposed implementation allows extracting significant amount of additional power compared to conventional field weakening technique. The simulation and experimental results clearly demonstrate the performance of the proposed implementation for ISA. A new loss minimised control method for the integrated starter alternator based on a loss model of the system was developed. The loss model operates in dq − axes and takes into account the inverter and the machine losses. The experimental results demonstrates that proposed loss minimised control provides significant efficiency improvements under light load condition of the ISA. This thesis also presents complete modeling of ISA, an extensive study on induction machine parameter variations and overall control design of the ISA system. The extensive simulation and experimental studies presented in this thesis clearly demonstrates the development of a new ISA which is low-cost, optimised for high efficiency and maximised power over a wide speed range and excellent DC bus voltage regulation under all conditions of generation.

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The requirements on vehicle industry are constantly getting stricter, especially when it comes to emissions. At the same time cars, trucks and buses are needed for our way of living. This have forced companies to be as ecient as possible in their way of using fossil fuels for travelling and transport. To increase the eciency companies investigate all possible fuel savings to decrease their carbon footprint as much as possible. One area of savings that is not that obvious to many people is the alternator. Several percent of the total energy used by a vehicle are needed to operate the alternator. With a typical alternator eciency of 70% considerable savings can be achieved. This thesis that concern alternator eciency was carried out at Scania in Södertälje, Sweden. The goal of the thesis is to construct a mathematical model of an alternator. The model is supposed to consider all losses in the alternator and together with the output power give an eciency model of the alternator at different speeds and loads. A great part of the project has been dealing with the magnetic losses. The magnetic losses have been modeled as an equivalent circuit with the load angle as a central piece. The equivalent circuit is built up by the fact that the alternator used in the vehicles is a salient pole alternator. The equivalent circuit describes a voltage equation where the voltage drop over the magnetic inductance is described. From that relations between the signals in the alternator and output signals can be written. The alternator model is then used together with data recorded from different buses all over the world, this to be able to investigate how the alternator contributes to the fuel consump- tion depending on the way that the buses are driven. The result of this thesis is a mathematical model that describes the losses in the alternator for different load cases and speeds.