High temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell hybrid power system monitoring platform designing

The design of 5kw high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (HTPEMFC) hybrid power system monitoring platform is presented in this paper. The purpose of the system is to overcome the problems of low temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (LTPEMFC), such as poor water management and requirement of high-purity hydrogen. The present computerized real-time monitoring system is based on NI´s PXIe hardware system and Labview software. The platform has two working modes - test mode and simulation mode. In the test mode, it provides the conditions for studying the problems of fuel cell hybrid power system, such as system performance, modelling and optimization, by completely monitoring all the working parameters in real-time. And in the simulation mode, besides the problems mentioned above, those with feeding control under changing loads, stability of output power and optimization of energy efficiency, can also be studied with multi-energy management system.