Experiments of a 20 cell PEFC operating under fault conditions with diode by-pass circuit for uninterrupted power delivery

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1044-1054

  De Bernardinis, Alexandre ^a   Candusso, Denis ^a,c   Harel, Fabien ^b,c   François, Xavier ^d   Coquery, Gérard ^a  

^a Laboratory of New Technologies   (France)

^b National Institute of Research on Transport and Safety   (France)

^c France   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

By pass diode; Degraded working modes; Fault tolerance; Multi stack fuel cell; Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell

Indexed keywords

ANTI-PARALLEL DIODES; DEGRADED WORKING MODES; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOURS; ELECTRICAL COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FAULT CONDITIONS; FUEL CELL STACK; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELL; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; POWER DELIVERY; WORKING MODE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CELLS; DIODES; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; FUEL CELLS; POLYELECTROLYTES; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 75849142589     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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