An Air Over-Stoichiometry Dependent Voltage Model for HT-PEMFC MEAs

Sylvain Rigal, Amine Jaafar (), Christophe Turpin, Théophile Hordé, Jean-Baptiste Jollys and Paul Kreczanik
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Sylvain Rigal: Institute of Technology Saint Exupéry (IcmRT Saint Exupéry), 3 Rue Tarfaya, 31400 Toulouse, France
Amine Jaafar: LAPLACE—Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’énergie Université de Toulouse, CNRS—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INPT—Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, UPS—Université Paul Sabatier, 31077 Toulouse, France
Christophe Turpin: LAPLACE—Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’énergie Université de Toulouse, CNRS—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INPT—Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, UPS—Université Paul Sabatier, 31077 Toulouse, France
Théophile Hordé: Airbus, 31703 Blagnac, France
Jean-Baptiste Jollys: Alstom, 50 Rue du Dr Guinier, 65600 Tarbes, France
Paul Kreczanik: Institute of Technology Saint Exupéry (IcmRT Saint Exupéry), 3 Rue Tarfaya, 31400 Toulouse, France

Energies, 2024, vol. 17, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: In this work, three commercially available Membrane Electrode Assemblies (MEAs) from Advent Technology Inc. and Danish Power Systems, developed for a use in High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (HT-PEMFC), were tested under various Operating Conditions (OCs): over-stoichiometry of hydrogen gas (1.05, 1.2, 1.35), over-stoichiometry of air gas (1.5, 2, 2.5), gas oxidant (O 2 or air) and temperature (140 °C, 160 °C, 180 °C). For each set of operating conditions, a polarization curve (V–I curve) was performed. A semi-empirical and macroscopic (0D) model of the fuel cell voltage was established in steady state conditions in order to model some of these experimental data. The proposed parameterization approach for this model (called here the “multi-VI” approach) is based on the sensitivity to the operating conditions specific to each involved physicochemical phenomenon. According to this method, only one set of parameters is used in order to model all the experimental curves (optimization is performed simultaneously on all curves). A model depending on air over-stoichiometry was developed. The main objective is to validate a simple (0D) and fast-running model that considers the impact of air over-stoichiometry on cell voltage regarding all commercially available MEAs. The obtained results are satisfying with Advent PBI MEA and Danish Power Systems MEA: an average error less than 1.5% and a maximum error around 15% between modelled and measured voltages with only nine parameters to identify. However, the model was not as adapted to Advent TPS ® MEA: average error and maximum error around 4% and 21%, respectively. Most of the obtained parameters appear consistent regardless of the OCs. The predictability of the model was also validated in the explored domain during the sensibility study with an interesting accuracy for 27 OCs after being trained on only nine curves. This is attractive for industrial application, since it reduces the number of experiments, hence the cost of model development, and is potentially applicable to all commercial HT-PEMFC MEAs.

Keywords: fuel cells; high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEMFC); hydrogen; steady-state model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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