Title :
Fuel cell fault diagnosis: A stochastic approach
Author :
Hernandez, Andres ; Hissel, Daniel ; Outbib, Rachid
Author_Institution :
L2ES, UTBM/UFC, Belfort
Abstract :
This paper deals with the problem of fault diagnosis for fuel cells. More precisely, the goal is to present a new strategy based on a stochastic approach to fault diagnosis which gives additional information of fuel cell conditions and operation modes, making fault diagnosis procedure simpler to achieve by using cell voltage probability density functions as clustering parameter. Flooding, and electrode contamination failure classification are discussed
Keywords :
failure analysis; fault diagnosis; fuel cell power plants; fuel cells; power generation faults; stochastic processes; cell voltage; clustering parameter; electrode contamination; failure classification; fault diagnosis; flooding; fuel cell; probability density functions; stochastic approach; Aging; Control systems; Degradation; Fault diagnosis; Floods; Fuel cells; Polarization; Probability density function; Stochastic processes; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0496-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0497-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2006.295877