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Modelling and Analysis of Electro-chemical, Thermal, and Reactant Flow Dynamics for a PEM Fuel Cell System

✍ Scribed by M. J. Khan; M. T. Iqbal


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
749 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1615-6846

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Abstract

In this paper an approach for the dynamic modelling of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells is presented. A mathematical formulation based on empirical equations is discussed and several features, exhibiting dynamic phenomena, are investigated. A generalized steady state fuel cell model is extended for the development of a method for dynamic electrochemical analysis. Energy balance and reactant flow dynamics are also explained through physical and empirical relationships. A well‐researched system (Ballard MK5‐E stack based PGS‐105B system) is considered in order to understand the operation of a practical fuel cell unit. Matlab‐SIMULINK^TM^ has been used in simulating the models. The proposed method appears to be relatively simple and consequently requires less computation time. Simulation results are compared with available experimental findings and a good match has been observed.