A Starting of Internal Combustion Engine using Supercapacitor

Abstract

This paper presents a starting internal combustion engine using the supercapacitor system, which one consists of supercapacitor modules connected into a series format. The present system can be operated to use instead of the battery and coupled with the dead battery for 1500 cc internal combustion engine. The supercapacitor system's capacitance is 58.33 F, which can be calculated by the starting engine energy using the battery between 3000 J and 3800 J. And the total starting current has about 0.1 Ah. The testing results, one can start an internal combustion engine into replaced battery mode and into coupled with the dead battery mode that starting energy has about 3500 J and 2200 J, respectively. Additionally, the total starting current has about 0.09 A-h and 0.07 Ah, respectively.