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Apr 8, 2023

Sliding Mode Control for Power Tracking of Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel-Cell System

Authors: Cheng Li [email protected], Hao Jing https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-8722 [email protected], Jianyao Hu [email protected], Guangdi Hu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6104-1346 [email protected], and Yuxiang Deng [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Journal of Energy Engineering
Volume 149, Issue 3
https://doi.org/10.1061/JLEED9.EYENG-4734
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Abstract

This paper proposes a novel approach to control the output power of a proton-exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) system by the current rate of change. First, a 70-kW PEMFC system model is established, which is validated by the experimental data with the maximum error of the output voltage being 3.68%. Then, a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) sliding mode controller (SMC) is designed based on the PEMFC model to maintain the excess oxygen ratio, the pressure difference between the cathode and anode, the stack temperature, and the output power at expectations. Finally, the simulation results show that the designed MIMO SMC performs better than the conventional proportional integral (PI) controller. When the PEMFC system responds to the dynamically changing power demand, the maximum power tracking error is 4.79%, the temperature fluctuation is about 0.06 K, and the pressure difference is maintained within 10 Pa.

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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appearing in the published article are available from the corresponding author.

Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Sichuan Provincial Key Science and Technology Project (No. 2019ZDZX0028).

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Received: Aug 16, 2022
Accepted: Jan 20, 2023
Published online: Apr 8, 2023
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ASCE Technical Topics:

  1. Continuum mechanics
  2. Deformation (mechanics)
  3. Detection methods
  4. Electric power
  5. Energy engineering
  6. Energy sources (by type)
  7. Engineering fundamentals
  8. Engineering mechanics
  9. Errors (statistics)
  10. Fuels
  11. Mathematics
  12. Measurement (by type)
  13. Membranes
  14. Methodology (by type)
  15. Non-renewable energy
  16. Power demand
  17. Sliding effects
  18. Solid mechanics
  19. Statistics
  20. Structural engineering
  21. Structural mechanics
  22. Structural members
  23. Structural systems
  24. Temperature effects
  25. Temperature measurement
  26. Tracking

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Cheng Li [email protected]
Ph.D. Student, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu 610031, China. Email: [email protected]
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Hao Jing https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-8722 [email protected]
Master’s Student, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu 610031, China. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9250-8722. Email: [email protected]
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Jianyao Hu [email protected]
Master’s Student, Quality Inspection Center, The Fifth Research Institute of MIIT, Guangzhou 510610, China. Email: [email protected]
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Guangdi Hu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6104-1346 [email protected]
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu 610031, China (corresponding author). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6104-1346. Email: [email protected]
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Yuxiang Deng [email protected]
Master’s Student, School of Mechanical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Chengdu 610031, China. Email: [email protected]
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