Center for Environmental Research and Technology

Dr. Mohamed Becherif, Head of Full-time Engineering Training in Energy and Electrical Engineering at UTBM and a member of the Femto-ST CNRS Lab, will give a seminar on Tuesday, March 4th, entitled: The Fuel Cell and Battery Hyrbid Electrical Vehicles

Abstract: Electric Vehicles (EV) use electric motors instead of Internal Combustion Engines (ICEs) for propulsion. At the contrary of the ICEs, the electric motors are reversible and allow recovering energy generated from braking when coupled to an electric storage device. This advantage makes the EV suitable for urban use where lots of braking phases occur. Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are becoming more attractive with the advancement of new battery technology that has higher power and energy density and allowing matching the requested vehicle dynamic. The autonomy is still a serious issue for BEVs. Fuel Cell (FC) vehicles bring a real solution to the requested autonomy but economic, technological and societal constrains have to be addressed before the large use of EV. Hybrid electrical vehicle of FC, battery and supercapacitor combine the advantages of each source and storage devices. This presentation deals with the electric vehicles’ technologies, modelling, control and energy management of this hybrid sources. In addition, UTBM university and Femto-ST Lab will be presented.

Bio: Mohamed Becherif obtained his Engineer in Automatic Control from Polytechnical School of Algeria 99, DEA and PhD in Automatic Control from University of Paris Sud/Supélec in 2001 and 2004 respectively and joined UTBM since 2005. He is the Head of the Full-time Engineering training in Energy and Electrical Engineering UTBM and member of Femto-ST CNRS Lab. He is was a scientific co-responsible or Principal Investigator in three European Projects FP7, French and international projects, and several industrial projects. He is co-author of more than 130 journal papers and more than 300 conference papers. He was/is the Manager Editor and Guest Editor of different Special Issue in different Elsevier Journals. H index 43 He was the General Chair of the following conferences: ICEREGA’16 + 17 +18+20, EMF’17, cochair of ICEE’17, International Examinator on Energies for Czech Republic, Estonia, EAU, Egypt. He was/is the supervisor of 20 PhD and jury member in 23. He was invited professor in China, Canada, Egypt and Algeria. In 2020-2021-2022-2023 and 2024, he is listed by Stanford University as one of the World’s top 2% Scientists (most cited scientists in various disciplines).

Location: Hybrid; CE-CERT RM 105, or Zoom (https://ucr.zoom.us/j/96390313057, Meeting ID: 963 9031 3057)