Faults Diagnosis Method Study of PEMFC Based on a Diagnostic COMSOL Model

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Abstract

A 2D diagnostic PEMFC distributed parameter model was set up using COMSOL+Multiphysics 3.5 platform. On this basis, three typical faults including cathode gas starvation, membrane dehydration and flooding were embedded into the diagnostic model. According to compare the flow field variation of the relevant parameters before and after the failure,the feasibility of faults embedding was verified. Finally, by using the stack voltage signals and wavelet analysis method, three typical faults have been identified and classified. The aim of faults diagnosis has been achieved preliminarily, and the feasibility of using a fault embedded model to develop a diagnostic method is established.

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	Zhou Su
	Ren Hongwei
	Pei Fenglai

Keywords： COMSOL+Multiphysics； PEMFC distributed parameter model； faults embedding； faults diagnosis

Received 2014-08-30;

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Zhou Su, Ren Hongwei, Pei Fenglai.Faults Diagnosis Method Study of PEMFC Based on a Diagnostic COMSOL Model[J] Chemcial Industry and Engineering, 2015,V32(4): 56-62

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