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| Hydraulic
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| The Engineering Research
Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP), headquartered at
the University of Minnesota, has developed an interactive hydraulic hybrid
vehicle exhibit that allows the operator to witness how energy regeneration
is possible for a hydraulic hybrid passenger vehicle. The simulator is
currently on display at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) and will
ultimately become part of a permanent exhibit on fluid power. The hydraulic
hybrid vehicle exhibit was built in spring 2007 by senior mechanical engineering
students at the University of Minnesota as a capstone design project. Advisors
for the project were CCEFP faculty and staff of the SMM. The exhibit won
first prize in the senior design show as the best capstone design project
in mechanical engineering. The concept of energy regeneration holds great
promise for future hybrid vehicles to greatly improve fuel economy, and
is being demonstrated in the small urban vehicle research testbed being
built at the University of Minnesota.
The CCEFP displayed the exhibit
at the 2007 Minnesota State Fair. The photo shows a CCEFP graduate student
explaining the exhibit to a young State Fair visitor. Next, the exhibit
was shown in the CCEFP booth at the International Fluid Power Exhibition
(IFPE) Trade Show in March 2008. IFPE is part of the largest trade show
in North America. |
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| A CCEFP graduate student
explains the hydraulic hybrid vehicle exhibit to a visitor at the Minnesota
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