Thermal management of refrigeration unit for electric refrigerated vans: An experimental case study

In future, electric vehicles are expected to be adopted in the food transport aid addressing limited access fossil fuel and reduce greenhouse gas emission. However, their construction has include consideration of a Temperature Refrigeration Unit (TRU) that is used foods at low temperatures without significantly impacting vehicle’s operation or driving range. this paper, we investigate benefit implementing Model Predictive Control (MPC) thermal management system (TMS) TRU for vans. A comparative study between developed MPC-based TMS traditional proportional–integral (PI) - based been carried out using physical rig. The experimental results show up 43% energy savings could achieved by MPC, compared case PI strategy.