Water management of PEM fuel cells using fuzzy logic controller system

Author

Abtahi, H. ; Zilouchian, Ali ; Saengrung, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

3486

Abstract

In this paper, several control strategies for water management of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are presented. The controllers were designed, developed and implemented in Fuel Cell Laboratory at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in order to increase the efficiency and performance of PEM fuel cells. Two different pulsing approaches were implemented. The amplitude variations of the pulses were controlled through a regulator on the air source pump. Other parameters were tuned using computer software in conjunction with A/D, D/A, and electronic circuits. In addition, a fuzzy controller is proposed for water management of PEM based on Mamadani inference systems. The preliminary experimental results demonstrate the effective of the method.

Keywords

control engineering computing; fuzzy control; power engineering computing; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; Florida Atlantic University; Fuel Cell Laboratory; Mamadani inference systems; fuzzy logic controller system; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; pulse amplitude variations; pulsing approaches; water management; Biomembranes; Control systems; Electronic circuits; Fuel cells; Fuzzy control; Fuzzy logic; Laboratories; Protons; Regulators; Software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571687

Filename

1571687