Assessment of fuel cell performance under different air stoichiometries and fuel composition

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2420-2426

  Marignetti, Fabrizio ^a   Minutillo, Mariagiovanna ^b   Perna, Alessandra ^a   Jannelli, Elio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimental setup; fuel cells (FCs); hydrogen; supervisory control and data acquisition systems

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR STOICHIOMETRY; BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVE; ELECTRONIC LOAD; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL FLOW; LABORATORY TEST; LABVIEW SOFTWARE; MASS FLOW CONTROLLER; NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION; PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; REAL-TIME DATA ACQUISITION; STEADY STATE; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO; SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL LITERATURE; TEST STATION; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS;

BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ELECTRIC DRIVES; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCADA SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING; STOICHIOMETRY;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 79956286309     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2069073     Document Type: Article

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