Model based control strategies to control voltage of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
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Mullapudi Siva
Abstract
The present work deals with the evaluation of model based control strategies for a PEM fuel cell to control voltage. PEM fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts the chemical energy to electrical energy. Stack voltage is affected by many factors like stack temperature, moisture content of the membrane, partial pressure of hydrogen and air, inlet rate of hydrogen and air and also fuel starvation affects the rate of reaction and hence the voltage produced. In this work, two single input single output models are taken with stack voltage as controlled variable and hydrogen and air flow rate as manipulated variables respectively. The simulation study on two different control structures i.e., feedback and feedback plus feed forward control structures evaluates the effectiveness of proposed controllers concerning set-point tracking and disturbance rejection. Comparative study is carried out by simulations by implementing various model based control strategies, PI, IMC-PID and MPC. The results shows that MPC gives best results in terms of Integral Square error (ISE), Integral Absolute error (IAE) and controller effort (TV). In addition, robust stability analysis is carried out for uncertainty in the process parameters. Also, the controller fragility is studied for uncertainty in the controller parameters.
Funding source: Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
Award Identifier / Grant number: EEQ/2018/000993
Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: This work has been funded by the Science and Engineering Research Board, a statutory body of Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. (The project no. EEQ/2018/000993).
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial special section: selected extended papers from an International Conference on Energy and Environmental Technologies for Sustainable Development (CHEM-CONFLUX20)
- Research Articles
- Model based control strategies to control voltage of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
- Nested control loop configuration for a three stage biological wastewater treatment process
- Energy saving in batch distillation for separation of ternary zeotropic mixture integrated with vapor recompression scheme: dynamics and control
- Pyrolysis of corn cob: physico-chemical characterization, thermal decomposition behavior and kinetic analysis
- Decolorization of Reactive Black B from wastewater by electro-coagulation: optimization using multivariate RSM and ANN
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