Testing the performance of fuel cells is an important key for verifying the technology improvements and for demonstrating their potential. However, due to the novelty of this technology, there is not a standardized procedure for testing fuel cell performance. In order to fully investigate a fuel cell performance, the behavior must be known in a wide range of operational conditions.. Furthermore, in order to compare results coming from different test teams, it should be defined a set of procedures and parameters to evaluate Single Cell performances. The research group of the Fuel Cell Laboratory of University of Perugia is performing performance test on single cells, focusing its attention on definition of test procedures to find effective parameters to be used for comparing tests made by different teams, also on different kind of cells. This work is about to demonstrate how the testing parameters developed by the team allow to perform an advanced control on test procedures, to understand test results in an easy way and also to compare them with tests executed in different operational conditions. Experimental results conducted on a single fuel cell are reported. The importance of fuel utilization factor and fuel humidification factor is stressed for their importance in the interpretation of the results.
A methodology for assessing fuel cell performance under a wide range of operational conditions: Results for a molten carbonate single cell
DESIDERI, UMBERTO;
2005-01-01
Abstract
Testing the performance of fuel cells is an important key for verifying the technology improvements and for demonstrating their potential. However, due to the novelty of this technology, there is not a standardized procedure for testing fuel cell performance. In order to fully investigate a fuel cell performance, the behavior must be known in a wide range of operational conditions.. Furthermore, in order to compare results coming from different test teams, it should be defined a set of procedures and parameters to evaluate Single Cell performances. The research group of the Fuel Cell Laboratory of University of Perugia is performing performance test on single cells, focusing its attention on definition of test procedures to find effective parameters to be used for comparing tests made by different teams, also on different kind of cells. This work is about to demonstrate how the testing parameters developed by the team allow to perform an advanced control on test procedures, to understand test results in an easy way and also to compare them with tests executed in different operational conditions. Experimental results conducted on a single fuel cell are reported. The importance of fuel utilization factor and fuel humidification factor is stressed for their importance in the interpretation of the results.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
