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Agenda

Note that this agenda is subject to change.

Seminar – gPROMS Fuel Cell

High-fidelity predictive modelling of fuel cell, stack and system

An intensive one-day seminar covering the state-of-the-art in fuel cell, cell stack and system modelling with a mixture of educational and hands-on sessions.

10:30 Registration
11:00 Start

SESSION 1 – Overview
Part 1: Challenges & solutions
  • Challenges facing fuel cell system developers
  • Why is modelling an essential tool to address these challenges?
  • What are we going to cover today?
Part 2: The importance of the high-fidelity approach in ensuring accuracy
  • The gPROMS Fuel Cell stack models – high fidelity predictive accuracy over a wide range of operation
  • Model fundamental physics and chemistry overview
  • Proof of accuracy aganst industrial data
  • How models are used in design optimisation – for example, platinum load distribution.

SESSION 2 – Characterising & managing your stack
Part 1: Combining experimental data and models, including:
  • single-cell I/V curves (see the optional hands-on data analysis activity below)
  • deactivation characterisation based on single-cell data
to develop new understanding and provide a structured path for performance and reliability analysis, design optimisation, system integration and other activities.
Part 2: Stack management, including:
  • water management, bipolar plate design/channel geometry
  • prediction of stack performance deterioration over time under different regimes of operation
  • stack micro-scale dynamics at rapid changes of power demand – providing input for prediction of thermal stresses within the stack
and how predictive modelling can make the difference between success and failure in these critical areas.
12:15–13:30 Lunch

SESSION 3 – From stack to system
  • Fuel processor modelling – simple and complex systems (for example, concentric reformer, water-gas shift)
  • Cost and operational optimisation
  • Dynamics and control, including start-up analysis and optimisation, water recovery and storage.

SESSION 4 – Wrap-up
  • Question-and-answer discussion
  • (optional) hands-on analysis of VI data using high-fidelity models – see below.
15:30 Finish of formal proceedings (hands-on session will continue)

 

Hands-on data analysis

If you are interested in taking advantage of this, please bring:

  • a laptop computer
  • suitable VI data measured on either a single cell or stack, in MS Excel format
  • (approximate) geometry information on sizes, thickness of layers, etc. If data is not available the software will provide typical default values.

Analysis will be performed on your own computer, in order to avoid confidentiality issues. At PSE's discretion we will provide short evaluation licences to enable further analysis.

Presenter details

Zbigniew Urban Zbigniew (ZiBi) Urban is PSE's Chief Technology Officer and Technology Leader for Fuel Cells and Reaction Technology. He is one of the world's foremost researchers in the application of high-fidelity modelling to fuel cell component and system development and is a pioneer in the field of hybrid process-CFD modelling.

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