摘要:
A fuel cell system that includes a control system (30) for regulating the power produced by the fuel cell system. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack (14) adapted to produce electrical power from a feed. In some embodiments, the fuel cell system includes a fuel processing assembly (16) adapted to produce the feed for the fuel cell stack from one or more feedstocks. The control system (30) regulates the power produced by the fuel cell system to prevent damage to, and/or failure of, the system.
摘要:
A power generation control system which includes: a fuel cell (201); a target power provider (101) for the fuel cell (201); a operation status monitoring system (102) for monitoring output power from the fuel cell (201), in which the detected output power includes actual output voltage (AV) of the fuel cell (201); and a controller (214). The controller (214) includes: a target current computing unit (104) which calculates a target current (TI) from the target power (TPW) given by the target power provider (101), based on PW-I characteristic obtained from I-V characteristic of the fuel cell (201); and a command output power computing unit (106) which calculates a command output power (CPW) of the fuel cell (201) based on the target current (TI) and the actual output voltage (AV).
摘要:
A fuel cell power system (10), comprising a fuel cell (16) which generates D.C. voltage while operating; an ultracapacitor (14) which, in operation, is electrically coupled with a load (58) and has a voltage condition; and a circuit (22) which, in operation, electrically couples and decouples the fuel cell to the ultracapacitor based upon the voltage condition of the ultracapacitor.
摘要:
A method and apparatus increase the temperature of a fuel cell via reactant starvation at one or both electrodes. Reactant starvation at an electrode results in an increased overvoltage at the electrode and hence increased internal heat generation under load. Starvation conditions can be prolonged or intermittent and can be obtained, for example, by suitably reducing the supply rate of a reactant or by operating the fuel cell at sufficiently high current density so as to consume reactant faster than it is supplied. The method can allow for some generation of useful power by the fuel cell during start-up. The method is particularly suitable for starting up a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell from temperatures below 0° C.
摘要:
A fuel cell system (10) that includes a control system (30) for regulating the power produced by the fuel cell system (10). The fuel cell system (10) includes a fuel cell stack (14) adapted to produce electrical power from a feed (102). In some embodiments, the fuel cell system (10) includes a fuel processing assembly (16) adapted to produce the feed for the fuel cell stack (14) from one or more feedstocks. The control system (30) regulates the power produced by the fuel cell system (10) to prevent damage to, and/or failure of, the system (10).
摘要:
A power management method with a portable electronic device (100) includes identifying, with a controller (202) of the portable electronic device, a power consumption event in the portable electronic device, the power consumption event having a power consumption requirement. The method further includes selecting (818), in response to the identifying, one of a collection of energy storage devices (304, 306, 308, 320) in an energy storage device farm (218) for the portable electronic device, the selecting being based at least on the power consumption requirement of the power consumption event and on one or more characteristics of the one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device executes the power consumption event using energy stored in the selected one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device (100) may be a mobile phone or other wireless communication device.
摘要:
The present invention refers to a test system for multi fuel high-temperature operating fuel cells, which allows the direct use of carbon-base fuels, including anhydrous ones, without promoting or limiting carbon deposition in the gas inlet and outlet ducts, as well as in the flow channels anode, said system comprising: a furnace (5) containing a reactor (4), the reactor consisting of at least two interconnection plates and at least one fuel cell (15) located between two interconnection plates, wherein one of the interconnection plates in contact with a fuel cell is a cathodic side, which receives oxidizing gas, and the other interconnecting plate in contact with said fuel cell is an anodic side, which receives combustible gas, the system further comprising a controlled means of gas feeding and exhaustion connected to the reactor (4), wherein each plate further comprises a plurality of flow channels (14) on its upper and lower surface, wherein the oxidizing gas and the combustible gas pass through the flow channels (14) to contact with the electrodes of the fuel cell (15), and wherein the base, top and interconnection plates are made of a zirconium oxide or cerium oxide-based material doped with one or more of the oxides of yttria, scandia, calcia, gadolinia, samaria, alumina and cobaltite, with a total amount of dopants up to 20% by weight.
摘要:
A fuel cell system includes a battery, auxiliary machines including an actuator and a heater that heats cooling water circulating in the fuel cell. The actuator is driven to cause gas to be supplied to a fuel cell configured to generate electric power using the gas. Furthermore, the fuel cell system includes a warming-up operation unit that adjusting operations of the auxiliary machines so as to realize output of fuel cell such that a predetermined electric power is extracted, a discharge control unit that supplies the electric power from the battery to the auxiliary machines when electric power generated by the fuel cell is lower than electric power consumed by the auxiliary machines. Furthermore, the fuel cell system includes an auxiliary machine restriction unit that restricts electric power consumed by the actuator when the discharge control unit supplies the electric power from the battery to the auxiliary machines in a case where the fuel cell is warmed up using the heater.