computational fluid dynamics analysis was employed to investigate the radial flow field patterns of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (pemfc) with different channel geometries at high operating current densities. 3d, non-isothermal was used with single straight channel geometry. our study showed that new generation of fuel cells with circle stack with the same active area and inlet area gave ...

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) directly convert the chemical energy of the reactants into electrical energy and usually consist of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) sandwiched between two catalyst layers (CLs), two porous gas diffusion layers (GDLs) often coated with a microporous layer (MPL) on the CL side, and two bipolar plates with embedded gas channels. Protons and electro...

A fuel cell has been considered as an efficient and clean alternative power source for automobile industry since the energy crisis forced people to find a substitution for fossil fuels. A proton exchange membrane fuel cell, also known as polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), becomes a prime candidate for applications in vehicles because of its following features: the PEMFC operates at...

Many kinds of uncertain factors may exist in the process of fault diagnosis and affect diagnostic results. Bayesian network is one of the most effective theoretical models for uncertain knowledge expression and reasoning. The method of naive Bayesian classification is used in this paper in fault diagnosis of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system. Based on the model of PEMFC, fault...

Thesis director: Prof. Pascal Briois tel: +33 3 84 58 37 01 E-mail: [email protected] Thesis co-supervisor: Dr. Fei Gao tel: +33 3 84 58 38 01 E-mail: [email protected] CONTEXT: The fuel cell is seen as a potential energy conversion system in the future energy mix. Among the various types of fuel cells, proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has shown great interest in its use in stationa...

The performance of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) can reflect the state health for PEMFC, which is basis PEMFC prognostics, and energy management. This article explores evolution under real traffic environmental conditions based on data from a fuel cell-based vehicle used mail delivery. correlation between output voltage operating during start stop analyzed by three analysis methods...

Today the world is full of time-dependent phenomena in all fields: physics, chemistry, mechanics and many others. Time acts on performance any system whatever its nature is. When a operates over time, aging becomes real concern. Regarding fuel cells, several degradation can occur short or long term. Short-term are generally referred to as reversible degradations, these degradations order micros...

We have successfully fabricated hydrogen–air micro proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) on silicon and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) base substrates. A complete fuel cell system was fabricated consisting of a PDMS substrate with micro flow channels upon which the membrane electrode assembly was vertically stacked. The PDMS microreactor was fabricated by soft lithography techniques. The mem...

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are promising clear and efficient new energy sources. An excellent control system is a normal working prerequisite for maintaining a fuel cell system in correct operating conditions. Conventional controllers could not satisfy the high performance to obtain the acceptable responses because of uncertainty, time-change, nonlinear, long-hysteresis and st...

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are promising clear and efficient new energy sources. An excellent control system is a normal working prerequisite for maintaining a fuel cell system in correct operating conditions. Conventional controllers could not satisfy the high performance to obtain the acceptable responses because of uncertainty, time-change, nonlinear, long-hysteresis and st...