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Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems

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The control of fuel cell systems was studied in Chaps.  3, 6 analyzing the system composed by the fuel cell stack and its auxiliary subsystems (e.g., compressor, valves, etc.), with the following objectives: achieve high efficiency, reduce the hydrogen consumption, improve the dynamic behavior and guarantee its safe operation. We continue in this chapter and Chap.  8 with the study of fuel cell-based systems approaching the fuel cell hybrid systems with some energy storage. Hybridization has important advantages in fuel cell hybrid vehicles (FCHV), a fuel cell application that is central in this book. Therefore, the process of designing a hybrid system, or methodology of design, is addressed in this chapter. We concentrate our attention on FCHVs because this application is particularly attractive, although some general aspects studied in this chapter also apply to other applications such as stand-alone residential PEM fuel cell power systems.

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    The specific power is defined as power per unit of mass \((\hbox{W kg}^{-1}).\)

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    The “charge double layer” (CDL) is an electrode phenomenon: when two different materials are in contact there is a build-up of charge on the surfaces or a charge transfer from one to the other. The effect is that if the current suddenly changes, the voltage shows an immediate change due to the internal resistance, but moves fairly slowly due to this accumulated charge. One way of modeling this is by using an equivalent circuit, with the CDL represented by an electrical capacitor [3].

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    The term asymmetric supercapacitors stands for SCs with different types of electrodes.

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    The state of charge, SoC(t), is defined as the relation between the actual charge voltage and the maximum charge voltage in a capacitor, whereas the SoE(t) is defined as the relation between the actual energy and the maximum charge energy.

  5. 5.

    It is also known as federal urban driving schedule (FUDS)

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The author wish to thank to Maria Serra and Jordi Riera from the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI-UPC-CSIC) for their contribution in this chapter.

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Feroldi, D. (2012). Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems. In: Basualdo, M., Feroldi, D., Outbib, R. (eds) PEM Fuel Cells with Bio-Ethanol Processor Systems. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-184-4_7

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