A Methodology for rapid evaluation and sizing of fuel cell system architectures for commercial aircraft

Journal
SAE International journal of aerospace  
Volume
4
Issue
2
Start Page
1084
End Page
1096
Citation
SAE International Journal of Aerospace 4 (2): 1084-1096 (2011)
Contribution to Conference
Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition 2011  
Publisher DOI
10.4271/2011-01-2646
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84859310582
Publisher
Society of Automotive Engineers International
This paper presents a methodology to develop, optimize and evaluate fuel cell system architectures. The main focus is placed on the sizing and optimization process which uses the simulation tool Matlab/Simscape. A model library is introduced which contains parametric behavior models. The benefit of this is that the size of the components is not fixed by the parameters. The size of the components is driven by the energy and mass flows of each component. Thus the implicit sizing and optimization process is easy to handle and numerically robust. Illustrative results are shown for a fuel cell system. © 2011 SAE International.
DDC Class
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften