Impact of power converter current ripple on the durability of a fuel cell stack

Wahdame, Bouchra; Girardot, L.; Hissel, Daniel; Harel, Fabien; François, Xavier; Candusso, Denis; Péra, Marie‐Cécile; Dumercy, L.

doi:10.1109/isie.2008.4677206

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“…The aging under a constant current of 70A for FC2 and under small variations at high frequency (5kHz) around 70A for FC1 are observed during 1000 hours. More details about the stacks and the experiments can be found in [38,39]. Eight characterizations are carried out throughout the aging (polarization curve and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy) leading to voltage disturbances, peaks are visible (Fig 6).…”

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Prognostics of PEM fuel cell in a particle filtering framework

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Gouriveau

Hissel

et al. 2014

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) suffer from a limited lifespan, which impedes their uses at a large scale. From this point of view, prognostics appears to be a promising activity since the estimation of the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) before a failure occurs allows deciding from mitigation actions at the right time when needed. Prognostics is however not a trivial task: 1) underlying degradation mechanisms cannot be easily measured and modeled, 2) health prediction must be performed with a long enough time horizon to allow reaction. The aim of this paper is to face these problems by proposing a prognostics framework that enables avoiding assumptions on the PEMFC behavior, while ensuring good accuracy on RUL estimates. Developments are based on a particle filtering approach that enables including non-observable states (degradation through time) into physical models. RUL estimates are obtained by considering successive probability distributions of degrading states. The method is applied on 2 data sets, where 3 models of the voltage drop are tested to compare predictions. Results are obtained with an accuracy of 90 hours around the real RUL value (for a 1000 hours lifespan), clearly showing the significance of the proposed approach.

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Prognostics of PEM fuel cell in a particle filtering framework

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Gouriveau

Hissel

et al. 2014

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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“…It has been suggested that current ripple can increase the losses and fuel waste thus decreasing the cell efficiency [20,22], can lead the cell to operate in dangerous conditions in case of too low reactant concentration [19] and finally it might decrease the fuel cell durability [19,21,23]. For these reasons recent studies have been focused on ripple mitigation [24e27].…”

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Simplified model for evaluating ripple effects on commercial PEM fuel cell

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Marracci

Prioli

et al. 2012

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

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“…First of all, a decrease of the PEMFC polarization curve from 5 to 10% with a sinusoidal current ripple at 1 kHz and a peak‐to‐peak value of 20% of the FC average current (i.e. 250 A) . The evolution of PEMFC stack voltage both the reference aging test and the dynamic test is illustrated in Figure .…”

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Fuel Cell Lifespan Optimization by Developing a Power Switch Fault‐Tolerant Control in a Floating Interleaved Boost Converter

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In recent years, fault tolerance has gained a growing interest from the scientific community, particularly in DC/DC converters. Generally, fault‐tolerance refers to a fault‐tolerant topology and/or control for power converters. In this paper, a floating interleaved boost converter (FIBC) is used in order to meet the fuel cell requirements, particularly in terms of input current ripple reduction and reliability. In DC/DC converters, power switches are ranked as the most fragile components. The most common failures in power switches are open‐circuit faults (OCFs), gating faults and short‐circuit faults (SCFs). The loss of one leg in case of OCF or SCF (considering that the faulty leg is isolated before damaging the system) leads up to the drastic increase of the fuel cell current ripple and consequently fuel cell lifespan reduction. The purpose of this paper is to present a fast and efficient power switch open‐circuit fault detection algorithm and fault‐tolerant control (FTC). The performances of the developed fault detection algorithm and FTC are validated by carrying out experimental tests between a proton exchange membrane fuel cell and a FIBC topology. The experimental results demonstrate the ability of the developed FTC to reduce drastically the fuel cell current ripple while improving the fuel cell lifespan.

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Impact of power converter current ripple on the durability of a fuel cell stack

Cited by 56 publications

References 9 publications

Prognostics of PEM fuel cell in a particle filtering framework

Prognostics of PEM fuel cell in a particle filtering framework

Simplified model for evaluating ripple effects on commercial PEM fuel cell

Fuel Cell Lifespan Optimization by Developing a Power Switch Fault‐Tolerant Control in a Floating Interleaved Boost Converter

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