A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH TO COMPACT AUXILIARY POWER UNITS FOR MILITARY APPLICATIONS

<title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>AVL is developing a family of modular Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) based on the current gasoline range extender engine/generator developed by AVL for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. These military specific variants will utilize the same basic architecture as the gasoline version while incorporating semi-direct fuel injection that is compatible with diesel fuel as well as kerosene based fuels such as F-44, JP-5, JP-8, Jet-A, etc.</p> <p>A systems engineering approach to the engine, generator, and power electronics modules enables a wide range of power outputs and packaging options to be easily developed from the base unit.</p>