This thesis proposes an adaptive control approach to regulate the hydrogen feed of a fuel cell. The goal of the controller is to maintain the so-called hydrogen excess ratio, defined as the ratio between the hydrogen fed to the cell stake and those consumed in the stake, at a desired level when the fuel cell is under load variation. Maintaining the hydrogen excess ratio
at an appropriate level would avoid hydrogen starvation, which is crucial for slowing degeneration of the fuel cell membranes and prolonging the life of the cell stake.
The control approach we propose is based on the receding horizon linear quadratic optimal control algorithm with an on-line turning scheme which updates the plant model according to real-time measurement. To ease the computational complexity and make real-time turning realizable, we adopt a simple autoregressive with external disturbance (ARX) model to approximate the complicate chemical/electrical process of the fuel cell. The proposed adaptive control approach is implemented
on an experimental platform. The experimental results show that the proposed control works with reasonably good performance.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1004111-032141 |
| Date | 04 October 2011 |
| Creators | Dai, Liang-Yu |
| Contributors | Li Lee, Chih-Chiang Cheng, Chung-Yao Kao, Fu-Cheng Wang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1004111-032141 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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