Design and control of air supply system for PEMFC UAV based on dynamic decoupling strategy

D Zhao, L Xia, H Dang, Z Wu, H Li - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
The oxygen excess ratio (OER) and air pressure of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell
(PEMFC) cathode need to be relatively stable to improve energy conversion and utilization …

A modeling study on water and thermal management and cold startup of unmanned aerial vehicle fuel cell system

Z Zeng, C Bao, C Li, M Ouyang - Etransportation, 2023 - Elsevier
The water and thermal management of hydrogen/air proton exchange membrane fuel cell
(PEMFC) system in a variable environment and its fast and efficient cold start at low …

Air flow and pressure optimization for air supply in proton exchange membrane fuel cell system

H Chen, Z Liu, X Ye, L Yi, S Xu, T Zhang - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
To study the air supply of proton exchange fuel cell (PEMFC) system to avoid air starvation,
a proton PEMFC system model mainly including the stack (30 kW, 240 cells, 190 cm 2 …

Modeling and control of PEMFC air supply system based on TS fuzzy theory and predictive control

D Yang, R Pan, Y Wang, Z Chen - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The proton exchange membrane fuel cell has become the most widely used fuel cell in fuel
cell vehicles. An effective and accurate control approach for its air supply system is crucial to …

Thermal management of an open-cathode PEMFC based on constraint generalized predictive control and optimized strategy

X Yu, C Zhang, M Li, G Wang, Z Tu, T Yu, H Dong… - Renewable Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has been
extended to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), light duty vehicles and other fields, but its …

Comprehensive analysis of cathode air pressure of fuel cell powertrain system of aircraft: Performance, efficiency, and control

Y Li, Z Hu, H Liu, L Xu, J Li, L Xu, M Ouyang - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fuel cells are ideal power sources for aircraft. However, fuel cells are highly sensitive to
operating pressure, which complicates the operating characteristics of fuel cells at various …

Conceptual design of small unmanned aerial vehicle with proton exchange membrane fuel cell system for long endurance mission

TH Oh - Energy Conversion and Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Energy is the most important factor determining the performance of a small unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) with a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system because the …

Design and numerical analysis of air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack for performance optimization

C Yin, Y Gao, K Li, D Wu, Y Song, H Tang - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is a promising electrical power source for the
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). In this paper, a novel kW-scale air-cooled PEMFC stack …

Performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization of a novel UAV propulsion system based on PEM fuel cell

M Bahari, M Rostami, A Entezari, S Ghahremani… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The present study has developed and optimized a novel hybrid propulsion system for
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This system has two independent power generation …

Modeling and dynamic characteristic simulation of air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack for unmanned aerial vehicle

C Gong, L Xing, C Liang, Z Tu - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Air-cooled low-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack applied with metallic
bipolar plate is considered as a promising power source for an unmanned aerial vehicle …