Transient thermal computation of a PEM fuel cell by a nodal modeling

Author

Dumercy, Laurent ; Glises, Raynal ; Kauffmann, Jean-Marie ; Louahlia-galous, Hasna

Author_Institution

Lab. d´´Electronique, Electrotechnique et Syst., UFC-UTBM-INRETS LRE, Belfort, France

Volume

5

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

3299

Abstract

In this paper, the authors propose a thermal modeling of a fuel cell. It has been validated on a 150 W power PEMFC. The thermal modeling uses a network of 172 nodes. It takes into account conduction and convection heat fluxes but also mass transfers due to electrochemical reaction. This thermal model is reduced to a global model describing electrical behavior and takes into account temperature regulation of the water cooling system. Matlab-Simulink software has been used. Dirichlet boundary conditions are obtained thanks to an SW infrared camera.

Keywords

convection; cooling towers; electrochemical analysis; heat conduction; mass transfer; proton exchange membrane fuel cells; temperature control; 150 W; Dirichlet boundary condition; Matlab-Simulink software; PEM fuel cell; SW infrared camera; conduction heat flux; convection heat flux; electrical behavior; electrochemical reaction; mass transfer; nodal modeling; proton exchange membrane fuel cell; temperature regulation; transient thermal computation; water cooling system; Boundary conditions; Cameras; Computer languages; Cooling; Fuel cells; Heat transfer; Mathematical model; Power system modeling; Software systems; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2003. VTC 2003-Fall. 2003 IEEE 58th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7954-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2003.1286278

Filename

1286278