Towards Resilient Fuel Cell Systems

Abstract

International audienceHydrogen &amp; Fuel Cell systems are very promising clean systems to store intermittent energy and use it in green and decentralized electricity. For the large-scale deployment of these innovative hydrogen-based technologies, it is necessary to bring reliable systems to the market with competitive costs and lifetimes. For this purpose, solutions for tolerance to fault and resistance to degradation shall be developed. <br&gtThe solutions of interest are based mainly on analytical redundancy and are integrated into the system, using as much as possible, the system’s own resources. Thus, the stack is used as its own sensor. The different solutions developed include monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, decision and control. The PEMFC system developed has the properties of resilient systems.&nbsp