Energy management of a fuel cell system: Influence of the air supply control on the water issues

Author

Boulon, L. ; Agbossou, K. ; Hissel, D. ; Hernandez, A. ; Bouscayrol, A. ; Sicard, P. ; Péra, M.C.

Author_Institution

IRH, Univ. du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

4-7 July 2010

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

166

Abstract

The objective of this work is to study the impact of the air supply of a fuel cell system on the humidification and water management issues. The first study consists in defining an indicator of the humidification state, which represents the output air moisture content and quantifies the quality of the water management. This indicator is evaluated both in simulation and experimentally. It is shown that it can be used in real time to improve the energy management and control of the fuel cell. Specifically, taking into account the air moisture in the air supply energy management is a mean to avoid major defects like fuel cell flooding or electrolyte membrane drying.

Keywords

electrolytes; fuel cells; humidity control; air moisture content; air supply control; air supply energy management; electrolyte membrane drying; fuel cell flooding; fuel cell system; humidification; water issues; Atmospheric modeling; Biomembranes; Energy management; Floods; Fuel cells; Humidity; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics (ISIE), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bari

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6390-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637604

Filename

5637604