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Automotive HVAC loop characterization, optimization and assessment in GT-SUITE.
Rel. Federico Millo, Luciano Rolando, Benedetta Peiretti Paradisi. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechanical Engineering, 2024
Abstract
In order to reduce CO2 emissions of the transportation sector, all over the world, but specially in the European Union, environmental legislation has become more and more stringent, so that electrification seems to be the future of transports. For this reason, during the last decade, OEMs started offering more Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) to their customers. However, the spread of this kind of vehicles on the market is still slow, mainly due to the range anxiety, the fear that the battery capacity is not enough. That is why, other than the improvement of battery technologies, OEMs work on the optimization of all vehicle’s sub-systems, so that their impact on the driving range is reduced.
Under this point of view, the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) is probably the most critical system for two reasons: first because it requires a lot of energy, specially to heat up the cabin during winter days, but also because it can be integrated in the larger cooling system of the vehicle, therefore contributing to improve the whole vehicle efficiency
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