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Improvement of Temperature and Humidity Control of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Abstract

Temperature and humidity are two important interconnected factors in the performance of PEMFCs (Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells). The fuel and oxidant humidity and stack temperature in a fuel cell were analyzed in this study. There are many factors that affect the temperature and humidity of the stack. We adopt the fuzzy control method of multi-input and multi-output to control the temperature and humidity of the stack. A model including a driver, vehicle, transmission motor, air feeding, electrical network, stack, hydrogen supply and cooling system was established to study the fuel cell performance. A fuzzy controller is proven to be better in improving the output power of fuel cells. The three control objectives are the fan speed control for regulating temperature, the solenoid valve on/off control of the bubble humidifier for humidity variation and the speed of the pump for regulating temperature difference. In addition, the results from the PID controller stack model and the fuzzy controller stack model are compared in this research. The fuel cell bench test has been built to validate the effectiveness of the proposed fuzzy control. The maximum temperature of the stack can be reduced by 5 ◦C with the fuzzy control in this paper, so the fuel cell output voltage (power) increases by an average of approximately 5.8%.

Funding source: This research has been financed by the National Key Research and Development Program for New Energy Vehicles in 2018, “Power System Platform and Vehicle Integration Technology for Extended-Range Fuel Cell Cars” (2018YFB0105400). It has also been funded by the Longquan Innovation Center of Zhejiang University. Thank you all.
Related subjects: Applications & Pathways
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2021-09-24
2024-12-10
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