A low-cost microcontroller based 500-watt PEM Fuel Cell emulator

Author

Karami, Nabil ; Outbib, Rachid ; Moubayed, Nazih

Author_Institution

Lab. of Sci. in Inf. & Syst. (LSIS), Aix-Marseille Univ., Marseille, France

fYear

2012

fDate

19-22 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper introduces the development of a PEM Fuel Cell (FC) emulator that mimics the behavior of an actual FC for real systems testing. The theoretical equations of the emulator are modeled on Matlab environment and programmed on a microcontroller for real time applications. The FC system is emulated by a high bandwidth buck converter controlled by the microcontroller holding the polarization curve data inside its memory. The emulator includes only the steady state behavior of the FC and can be used in laboratories for control related studies in such a way, it is possible to test the behavior of a hybrid system including power electronics devices without marshaling of an expensive fuel cell stack.

Keywords

microcontrollers; power convertors; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; Matlab environment; PEM fuel cell emulator; PEMFC system; emulator theoretical equation; fuel cell stack; high bandwidth buck converter; hybrid system; low-cost microcontroller; polarization curve data holding; power 500 W; power electronics device; real system testing; real time application; steady state behavior; Capacitors; Fuel cells; Fuels; Integrated circuit modeling; Mathematical model; Microcontrollers; Resistance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Conference (SysCon), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0748-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SysCon.2012.6189439

Filename

6189439