Fuel Cell System Components: Air Supply Circuit
In this course, the PEM fuel cell air compressor and air supply circuit will be introduced and analyzed in detail. The air compressor is a key component in the fuel cell system, as it has the largest parasitic power consumption. Different air compressor technologies for PEM fuel cell, such as scroll, lobe, screw, centrifugal compressors, will be presented with experimental results. An emphasis on the air circuit control techniques will be given at last. Topics covered include: Schema of fuel cell system; Air supply: compressor; Topology of air supply circuit; Compressor types: scroll, lobe, screw, centrifugal; and Air circuit control techniques.
What you will learn:
- Examine the schema of fuel cell system
- Discuss air supply: compressor
- Review the tropology of air supply circuit
- Describe compressor types: scroll, lobe, screw, centrifugal
- Examine air circuit control techniques
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Who Should Attend: Electrical engineer, Chemical engineer, Systems engineer, Hardware engineer, Design engineer
Instructor
Fei Gao
Dr. Fei Gao is currently an associate professor at the energy department of the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbeliard (UTBM), Belfort, France. He received respectively from UTBM the Master's degree in electrical and control system engineering in 2007, and the PhD degree in renewable energy with distinguished youth doctor reward in 2010. His main research fields include fuel cells and their applications in transportation, multi-physical modeling and real time simulation systems. He is the head of the energy production division of department of Energy of UTBM, and the chair of fuel cell modeling axis of the Fuel Cell Research Federation (FR CNRS) in France. Since 2014, he is also appointed as adjunct lecture professor at School of Automation of the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China. He is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and editor of the IEEE Transportation Electrification Newsletter. He is elected in 2013 as Secretary (IEEE officer) of the Technical Committee on Automotive Technology (TCAT) of IEEE Industry Electronic Society (IES). He serves also as technical track chair and member of organizing committee in many IEEE international conferences (IECON, ITEC, APEC).
Publication Year: 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4799-8540-1