Multivariable control for air management system in fuel reforming Fuel Cell Vehicle

Author(s):  
N. Romani ◽  
D. Beauvois ◽  
E. Godoy ◽  
V. Le Lay
2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Romani ◽  
Emmanuel Godoy ◽  
Dominique Beauvois ◽  
Vincent Le Lay

With the purpose of meeting the specifically restrictive requirements of fuel reforming fuel cell vehicle, this paper brings into focus the issues of the transient operation of fuel cell systems and presents a control-oriented dynamic model of fuel cell air management system, suited for multivariable controller design, system optimization, and supervisory control strategy. In a first step, the dual analytical approach based on lumped and distributed parameter models is detailed: The partial differential equations deduced from mass/energy conservation laws and inertial dynamics are reduced to ordinary differential equations using spatial discretization and then combined with semiempirical actuator models to form the overall air system model. In a second step, a classical approach is followed to obtain a local linearization of the model. A validation of both nonlinear and linearized versions is performed by computational fluid dynamics simulations and experiments on a dedicated air system test bench. Thanks to dynamic analysis (pole/zero map), operating point impact and model order reduction are investigated. Finally, the multiinput multioutput state-space model—which balances model fidelity with model simplicity—can be coupled with reformer, stack, and thermal models to understand the system complexity and to develop model-based control methodologies.


Energy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 199 ◽  
pp. 117495
Author(s):  
Jiamin Xu ◽  
Caizhi Zhang ◽  
Ruijia Fan ◽  
Huanhuan Bao ◽  
Yi Wang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiping Wang ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Qi Tao ◽  
Mohamed H. S. Bargal ◽  
Mengting Yu ◽  
...  

Abstract Thermal management is an important factor in securing the safe and effective operation of a fuel cell vehicle (FCV). A parameterized stack model of a 100 kW proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is constructed by matlab/Simulink to design and asses the thermal management characteristics of a 100 kW full-powered FCV. The cooling components model, with parameters obtained by theoretical calculation based on the cooling requirement, is developed in the commercial solver GT-COOL. A thermal management simulation platform is constructed by coupling the stack model and cooling components. The accuracy of the modeling method for the stack is validated by comparing with the experimental data. The relationship between the operating temperature and output performance of the fuel cell stack is revealed based on the simulation model. The simulation results show that the operating temperature has a considerable influence on stack performance under high-current operation, and the inlet and outlet temperatures of the stack change nearly linearly with the increasing environmental temperature. The heat dissipation potential of the thermal management system under the high-load condition is also verified. The temperatures and coolant flow of core components, including the stack, DC/DC, air compressor, and driving motor, can meet the cooling requirements.


2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 721-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Li ◽  
Xu Nian Lai ◽  
Wei Ming Liang ◽  
Bing Long Wang ◽  
Fen Liu

Due to the features of complicated test environment, variable parameters, and limited conditions in real car experiment, it has proposed a Hardware-in-Loop test platform in this paper for Hydrogen Management System (Short for HMS) based on hardware of NI PXI and software of NI Labview to plug-in fuel cell vehicle. According to HMS’s control strategy, I/O signal map, CAN communication and sensor characteristics, it has designed the hardware configuration, software program, test interface, and rapidly made validation to control logic and fault diagnosis of Hydrogen Management Unit (Short for HMU). The experiment result shows that this test platform is effective for HMU control logic validation, system status monitor, fault injection, fault tracing, and it can shorten the vehicle research and development cycle, reduce the development cost, optimize test environment and promise safety for test engineer. This test platform will make good effect to vehicle electrical system development and supply reference for vehicle test.


AIP Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 065307
Author(s):  
Zhen Zhao ◽  
Tie Wang ◽  
Baifu Zhang ◽  
Yiquan Wang ◽  
Chunjiang Bao ◽  
...  

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