Fuel cell system
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11223057B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-01-11

    申请号:US16735793

    申请日:2020-01-07

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a fuel cell system that achieves a stable operation of a turbo compressor.
    The fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell; an air supply flow path; a turbo compressor; a bypass flow path configured to discharges air by branching off from the air supply flow path; a pressure regulating valve; a bypass valve; and a control unit, the pressure regulating valve, and the bypass valve, in which the control unit calculates, from a flow rate of air supplied based on an actual rotation speed of the turbo compressor and a target flow rate of air to the fuel cell, a flow rate of excess air discharged from the bypass flow path, and determines a degree of opening of the bypass valve based on the target flow rate of air and the flow rate of excess air.

    Fuel cell system and method of controlling fuel cell system

    公开(公告)号:US11611094B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-21

    申请号:US16269902

    申请日:2019-02-07

    摘要: A fuel cell system is equipped with a control unit that controls a rotational speed of the turbo compressor that supplies air to an air supply flow passage and an opening degree of at least one valve that adjusts a flow rate and a pressure of the air supplied to a fuel cell such that an operating point of the turbo compressor becomes a target operating point. The control unit sets the target operating point within an operating point range that is on the higher flow rate side than at least part of a first region where an amount of change in flow rate is larger than a predetermined value when a pressure ratio of the turbo compressor is changed by a predetermined amount at a same rotational speed, on a higher flow rate side than a surging region, when a predetermined condition is fulfilled.

    Fuel cell system and method of controlling fuel cell system

    公开(公告)号:US10930953B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-23

    申请号:US16247764

    申请日:2019-01-15

    摘要: A control unit of a fuel cell system acquires a service operating point, repeats a process of calculating a distance between the service operating point and a surging region, while transferring an operating point of a turbo compressor from a first operating point to a second operating point outside the surging region, sets opening degrees of a pressure adjusting valve and a bypass valve such that the turbo compressor operates at a required operating point, when the distance exceeds a threshold, and corrects at least one of the opening degrees of the pressure adjusting valve and the bypass valve such that the at least one of the opening degrees becomes larger than an opening degree set such that the turbo compressor operates at the required operating point, when the distance is equal to or shorter than the threshold.

    Fuel cell system and control method of fuel cell system

    公开(公告)号:US10756364B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US15975315

    申请日:2018-05-09

    摘要: There is provided a fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell including an electrolyte membrane, an anode and a cathode; and a controller configured to control a fuel gas supply part and an oxidizing gas supply part to supply amounts of a fuel gas and an oxidizing gas corresponding to a required power, to the fuel cell. During an intermittent operation that has the required power equal to or lower than a predetermined value and stops power generation in the fuel cell, the controller estimates a crossover amount that is an amount of the fuel gas moved from the anode to the cathode through the electrolyte membrane. The controller also calculates a supply amount of the oxidizing gas that is an amount of the oxidizing gas to be supplied to the fuel cell, based on the estimated crossover amount and controls the oxidizing gas supply part to supply the calculated supply amount of the oxidizing gas to the fuel cell. The supply amount of the oxidizing gas is calculated by an expression of: supply amount of oxidizing gas=crossover amount/2/oxygen concentration in oxidizing gas.