On-line nonlinear model predictive control of a PEM fuel cell system

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-492

  Ziogou, Chrysovalantou ^a,b   Papadopoulou, Simira ^a,c   Georgiadis, Michael C ^a,b   Voutetakis, Spyros ^a  

^a Centre for Research Technology Hellas   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^c ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Experimental implementation; Fuel cell; On line nonlinear model predictive control; Orthogonal collocation finite elements; Oxidant starvation; Power tracking

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MODEL-BASED CONTROLS; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; DIRECT TRANSCRIPTION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION; FINITE ELEMENT; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLER; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; POWER TRACKING;

FUEL CELLS; FUEL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84875543341     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2013.01.011     Document Type: Article

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