Research of hydrogen storage system using LabVIEW software

Author

Gruss, Martin ; Hradilek, Zdenek

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., VSB - Tech. Univ. of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

fYear

2015

fDate

20-22 May 2015

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

477

Abstract

This paper deals with research in the field of hydrogen production and consumption within the experimental fuel cells laboratory of VřB-TUO to achieve optimization of operation and high efficiency. This system operates as an island system and it is powered from a photovoltaic power plant. Hydrogen is supplied from the electrolyzer Hogen GC600. The hydrogen produced then serves as fule for the fuel cell module NEXA Ballard Power System. The main part of this paper focuses on fuel cell operation based on experimental measurements with the potential utilisation of a software model created for optimization and simulation of operation conditions. Parameters, constants and mutual mathematical-physical relations will be used to developed a software model of the source with a fuel cell within the LabVIEW program environment. Such model provides an opportunity to design an ideal fuel cell operation with high efficiency.

Keywords

energy consumption; fuel cells; hydrogen production; hydrogen storage; photovoltaic power systems; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW software; VSB-TUO; electrolyzer Hogen GC600; experimental fuel cell laboratory; fuel cell module NEXA Ballard power system; hydrogen consumption; hydrogen production; hydrogen storage system; mathematical-physical relation; photovoltaic power plant; Batteries; Fuel cells; Hydrogen; Hydrogen storage; Mathematical model; Photovoltaic systems; Power systems; Fuel cell; Hydrogen; LabVIEW; Storage system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power Engineering (EPE), 2015 16th International Scientific Conference on

Conference_Location

Kouty nad Desnou

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2015.7161111

Filename

7161111