The need to decarbonize the shipping sector is leading a growing interest in fuel cell-based propulsion systems. While Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) represent one of most promising and mature technologies for onboard implementation, they are still prone remarkable degradation. same problem also affecting Lithium-ion batteries (LIB), which usually coupled with PEMFC hybrid powe...

In this chapter research trends followed by various scientific groups for the development of polymeric membranes have been described and reviewed. Most notably, the developments made at Ballard Advanced Materials (BAM) and some of their results are discussed. In general three different approaches have been followed worldwide by various research groups for the development and conception of alter...

The operation of PEM fuel cells (PEMFC) with dead-ended anode (DEA) leads to severe voltage transients due to accumulation of nitrogen, water vapor and liquid water in the anode channels and the gas diffusion layer (GDL). Accumulation of nitrogen causes a large voltage transient with a characteristic profile whereas the amount of water vapor in the anode is limited by the saturation pressure, a...

Significant research efforts are directed towards finding new ways to reduce the cost, increase efficiency, and decrease environmental impact of power-generation systems. The poly-generation concept is a promising strategy that enables development sustainable power system. Over past few years, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell-based Poly-Generation Systems (PEMFC-PGSs) have received accelerate...

Hydrogen associated with Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) as the prime candidate energy is becoming attention in transportation. However, cost and service lifespan are main reasons that limit PEMFC wide application. In this paper, super-twisting sliding mode (STSM) controller designed for a four-phase interleaved boost converter (IBC) coupled PEMFC. The proposed can enhance robustness...

Electro-thermal maps of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) show the spatial distribution current density and temperature, which is useful to evaluate their performance. Here, electro-thermal mapping carried out for first time on PEMFC with fractal cathode flow-field, design emulates efficient, scalable air transport inside lungs. Such are compared those conventional single-serpent...

To predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) in advance, a prediction method based on voltage recovery model and Bayesian optimization multi-kernel relevance vector machine (MK-RVM) is proposed this paper. First, empirical mode decomposition (EMD) was used to preprocess data, then MK-RVM train model. Next, algorithm optimize weight coefficient kernel ...

This paper proposes a novel degradation prognosis of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) based on Wavelet Neural Network (WNN) and Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA). The proposed method considering the main operating conditions PEMFC can be applied to health state prognostic under different conditions. First, data are reconstructed by locally weighted scatterplot smoothing filter noise. Then...