Polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack emulator for automotive Hardware-In-the-Loop applications

Author

Fei Gao ; Blunier, B. ; Bouquain, D. ; Miraoui, A. ; El Moudni, A.

Author_Institution

Transp. & Syst. Lab. (SeT), Univ. of Technol. of Belfort-Montbeliard, Belfort, France

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

998

Lastpage

1004

Abstract

This article presents a dynamic model based polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) stack emulator for automotive hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) purpose. The 1-D dynamic PEFC stack model implemented in the real-time emulator covers 3 major fuel cell physical domains: electrical, fluidic and thermal. The model is capable to predict the accuracy stack profiles in time and space scales. A novel fuel cell stack emulator structure design is presented. A digital data bus is used in the emulator platform and the electrical characteristic of the fuel cell stack is emulated by a simple boost DC/DC power converter.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; automotive electronics; fuel cell vehicles; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; 1D dynamic PEFC stack; automotive hardware-in-the-loop; boost DC/DC power converter; digital data bus; polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack emulator; Automotive engineering; Fluid dynamics; Fuel cells; Hydrogen; Life testing; Polymers; Predictive models; System testing; Vehicle dynamics; Water heating; Fuel cell; Hardware-in-the-loop; automotive applications; emulator; modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2009. VPPC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2600-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2009.5289739

Filename

5289739