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Development of Real-time Diagnosis Method for PEMFC Stack via Intermodulation Method

Intermodulation 방법에 의한 자동차용 연료전지 스택의 실시간 진단방법 개발

  • Lee, Young-Hyun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kangnam University) ;
  • Yoo, Seungyeol (School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education) ;
  • Kim, Jonghyeon (Department of Electronic Engineering, Kangnam University)
  • Received : 2014.03.31
  • Accepted : 2014.06.23
  • Published : 2014.11.01
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Abstract

During PEMFC(Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell) operation monitoring and diagnosis are important issues for reliability and durability. Stack defect can be followed by a critical cell voltage drop in the stack. One method for monitoring the cell voltage is CVM(Cell Voltage Monitoring), where all cells in the stack are electrically connected to a voltage measuring system and monitored these voltages. The other methods are based on the EIS(Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy) and on nonlinear frequency response. In this paper, intermodulation(IM) method for diagnosis PEMFC stack is introduced. To detect one or more critical PEMFC cell voltage PEMFC stack is excited by two or more test sinusoid current, and the frequency response of the stack voltage is analyzed. If one or more critical cell voltage exists, higher harmonics on the voltage frequency spectrum will appear. For the proposed IM method, stack simulation and experiments are conducted.

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