overview of electrical kers for ic engine vehicles

  Akshay Vaidya,  Sudhanshu Upadhye

kers is an automotive system or technology which is used for recovering the lost kinetic energy of an object undergoing deceleration or retardation. kers works on the basic principle of physics that states, “energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be endlessly converted”. when a vehicle is being driven it has kinetic energy and the same energy is converted into heat and friction energy on braking. it is the rotational force of the car that comes to stop in case of braking and energy is lost. with the help of kers the energy losses are minimized. kers is a type of regenerative braking system which can recover and store the lost kinetic energy in various energy forms. in automobiles the lost energy is stored mechanically in flywheels or electrically in batteries using a complex system of energy recovery systems. this stored energy can further be used under acceleration or to power onboard electronics.

Keywords- motor generator unit (mgu), power control unit (pcu), kers, charging cycle, boost cycle, hybrid technology

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2004057
Page Number(s) - 372-376
Pubished in - Volume 8 | Issue 4 | December 2020
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Akshay Vaidya,  Sudhanshu Upadhye,   "overview of electrical kers for ic engine vehicles", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.8, Issue 4, pp.372-376, December 2020, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2004057.pdf