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Fault Detection and Diagnosis Methods for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell System

고분자전해질연료전지를 위한 고장 검출 및 진단 기술

  • LEE, WON-YONG (Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • PARK, GU-GON (Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • SOHN, YOUNG-JUN (Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research) ;
  • KIM, SEUNG-GON (Department of Advance Energy and System Technology, University of Science and Technology) ;
  • KIM, MINJIN (Fuel Cell Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research)
  • 이원용 (한국에너지기술연구원 연료전지연구실) ;
  • 박구곤 (한국에너지기술연구원 연료전지연구실) ;
  • 손영준 (한국에너지기술연구원 연료전지연구실) ;
  • 김승곤 (과학기술연합대학원대학교 신에너지 및 시스템 기술) ;
  • 김민진 (한국에너지기술연구원 연료전지연구실)
  • Received : 2017.06.01
  • Accepted : 2017.06.30
  • Published : 2017.06.30
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Abstract

Fuel cell systems have to satisfy acceptable operating reliability, sufficient lifetime and price to enter the market in competition with existing products. Fuel cells are made up of complex element technologies and various problems related to the failure of the components can affect the reliability and safety of the system. This problem can be overcome by introducing a monitoring and supervisory control system in addition to automatic control to detect the failure of the fuel cell quickly and properly diagnose the performance degradation. For the fault detection and diagnosis of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, the model based method using the theoretical superposition value and the non-model based method of checking the signal tendency or the converted signal characteristic can be applied. The methods analyzed in this paper can contribute to the development of integrated monitoring and control technology for the whole system as well as the stack.

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