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Control and Management for Direct Water Fuel Cell Systems

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  • Journal of Control Engineering and Technology

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  • 2011

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In this paper, the effectiveness analysis of direct water fuel cell systems including a fuel cell for hydrogen control and energy management by using magnesium hydrolysis reaction with a stainless steel catalyst inside the reactor is proposed. This study employed a Magnesium scraps and seawater to generate hydrogen gas. Metal catalyst was required for accelerating the reaction of H2 generation in the Mg scraps/sea water solution. Purity of the generated H2 was about 99%. The hydrogen energy systems included hydrogen storage of metal hydride to transfer the system’s heat energy to the hydrogen storage and exit. The metal hydride not only recycled the heat energy from fuel cell but also averages the hydrogen supply of magnesium hydrolysis reaction which setup as a reactor. Experimental results prove that our prototype, can reach its hydrogen production efficiency by the chemical reaction about 97%. In this study, the user in on-demand period knows the data on the amount of hydrogen flow rate, the electricity from fuel cell, the temperatures of fuel cell, reactor, and metal hydride hydrogen storage, and recycled heat energy storage capacity information by the system interface. In the present study with no special hydrogen gas storage, fuel cells can be used directly to supply electricity.
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