Review of System Integration and Control of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Wu, Di; Peng, Chao; Yin, Cong; Tang, Hao

doi:10.1007/s41918-020-00068-1

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“…The PGM-free catalysts are the primary focus of this work. However, it should be noted that the PEM fuel cell involves various components and factors in addition to MEA, such as the bipolar plates, gas, heat and water management systems, control systems [59]. Integration of MEAs into the fuel cell stacks also requires tremendous effort.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, to improve the PEM fuel cell performance, efforts are also required on these components beyond catalysts. For example, the ionomer and its ratio to the catalyst in the catalyst layer [56], catalyst loading [57], cathode structure [58], and flow fields [59] have been reported as key factors influencing the MEA performance.…”

Section: Improvement Strategies Beyond Catalystsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Cathode

Zhang

Sun

2021

Automot. Innov.

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Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells have gained increasing interest from academia and industry, due to its remarkable advantages including high efficiency, high energy density, high power density, and fast refueling, also because of the urgent demand for clean and renewable energy. One of the biggest challenges for PEM fuel cell technology is the high cost, attributed to the use of precious platinum group metals (PGM), e.g., Pt, particularly at cathodes where sluggish oxygen reduction reaction takes place. Two primary ways have been paved to address this cost challenge: one named low-loading PGM-based catalysts and another one is non-precious metal-based or PGM-free catalysts. Particularly for the PGM-free catalysts, tremendous efforts have been made to improve the performance and durability—milestones have been achieved in the corresponding PEM fuel cells. Even though the current status is still far from meeting the expectations. More efforts are thus required to further research and develop the desired PGM-free catalysts for cathodes in PEM fuel cells. Herein, this paper discusses the most recent progress of PGM-free catalysts and their applications in the practical membrane electrolyte assembly and PEM fuel cells. The most promising directions for future research and development are pointed out in terms of enhancing the intrinsic activity, reducing the degradation, as well as the study at the level of fuel cell stacks.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Improvement Strategies Beyond Catalystsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Cathode

Zhang

Sun

2021

Automot. Innov.

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“…Among various type of fuel cells, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is receiving ever-increasing attention because of its low operating temperature and high energy efficiency. 2 , 3 In the development of PEMFCs, most efforts were focused on hydrogen PEMFCs and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). However, some of their inherent limitations have still not been addressed even with such intensive studies.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catalyst Electrodes with PtCu Nanowire Arrays In Situ Grown on Gas Diffusion Layers for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells

Yan

et al. 2022

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces

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The excellent performance and safety of direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) promote them as potential power sources for portable electronic devices. However, their real application is still highly challenging due to the poor power performance and high complexity in the fabrication of catalyst electrodes. In this work, we demonstrate a new gas diffusion electrode (GDE) with ultrathin PtCu alloy nanowire (NW) arrays in situ grown on the carbon paper gas diffusion layer surface. The growing process is achieved by a facile template- and surfactant-free self-growth assisted reduction method at room temperature. A finely controlled ion reduction process tunes the nucleation and crystal growth of Pt and Cu leading to the formation of alloy nanowires with an average diameter of about 4 nm. The GDE is directly used as the anode for DFAFCs. The results in the half-cell GDE measurement indicate that the introduction of Cu in PtCu NWs boosts the direct oxidation pathway for formic acid. The Pt 3 Cu 1 NW GDE shows a 2.4-fold higher power density compared to the Pt NW GDE in the membrane electrode assembly test in single cells.

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“…Compared to the difficulty of improving the efficiency of a converter or the conversion rate of a PEMFC, using some advanced control strategy to improve the efficiency of MPPT control is a relatively simple, fast and more efficient way 30 , 31 . However, the commonly used MPPT methods still have some problems, such as slow tracking speed, large steady-state fluctuation, poor anti-interference ability, etc., which need to be further improved to raise the tracking accuracy and speed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Maximum power point tracking of PEMFC based on hybrid artificial bee colony algorithm with fuzzy control

2022

Sci Rep

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Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is an effective method to improve the power generation efficiency and power supply quality of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Due to the inherent nonlinear characteristics of PEMFC, conventional MPPT methods are often difficult to achieve a satisfactory control effect. Considering this, artificial bee colony algorithm combining fuzzy control (ABC-fuzzy) was proposed to construct a MPPT control scheme for PEMFC. The global optimization ability of ABC algorithm was used to approach the maximum power point of PEMFC and solve the problem of falling into local optimization, and fuzzy control was used to eliminate the problems of large overshoot and slow convergence speed of ABC algorithm. The testing results show that compared with perturb & observe algorithm, conductance increment and ABC methods, ABC-fuzzy method can make PEMFC obtain greater output power, faster regulation speed, smaller steady-state error, less oscillation and stronger anti-interference ability. The MPPT scheme based on ABC-fuzzy can effectively realize the maximum power output of PEMFC, and plays an important role in improving the service life and power supply efficiency of PEMFC.

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Review of System Integration and Control of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Cited by 143 publications

References 233 publications

Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Cathode

Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells with Platinum Group Metal (PGM)-Free Cathode

Catalyst Electrodes with PtCu Nanowire Arrays In Situ Grown on Gas Diffusion Layers for Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells

Maximum power point tracking of PEMFC based on hybrid artificial bee colony algorithm with fuzzy control

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