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Developers of fuel cell components and systems face many challenges in getting their products to market.

The complex interactions within the fuel cell itself and between stack and system – coupled with time-to-market pressures and the associated technology risk – make modelling an essential tool.

PSE's new gPROMS Fuel Cell product, incorporating the Advanced Model Library for Fuel Cells (AML:FC), is a step-change in the tools available for high-fidelity predictive modelling of fuel cell components and systems.

In this seminar you will see how gPROMS Fuel Cell's high-fidelity predictive modelling capabilities now make it possible to address all of the challenges listed below.

Seminar details

This free seminar describes the concepts behind a model-based engineering approach to fuel cell stack and system design, and provides an opportunity for attendees to use gPROMS Fuel Cell to address typical practical problems.

You can see the detailed agenda here

Target audience Fuel cell component and systems developer business, management and technical personnel interested in applying the latest techniques to accelerate development, design and implementation of fuel cells while reducing technology risk
Outline An intensive half-day seminar covering the state-of-the-art in fuel cell, cell stack and system modelling and illustrating gPROMS Fuel Cell's capabilities for tackling key design and operational problems, with a mixture of educational and hands-on sessions.
Date 28 September 2010
Time 14:00-16:00
Location Hotel Riviera, Daejeon, Korea
Cost FREE
Presenter Zbigniew Urban, Chief Technology Officer

Challenges

Challenges facing developers of different cell type include:

  • Interpretation of experimental data using a physically-realistic framework
  • Estimation of key model parameters from experimental data
  • Accurate prediction of current density distribution over the stack
  • Water management (PEMFC)
  • Optimal integration of the cell with fuel processing and other systems
  • Operational issues such as temperature dynamics on change in power demand, optimisation of start-up, etc.
  • Control system design
  • Optimisation of stack size vs nominal and maximum power output
  • Deactivation and stack longevity
  • Optimisation of platinum load.

How gPROMS Fuel Cell addresses these

gPROMS Fuel Cell uses high-fidelity models within the powerful gPROMS modelling and optimisation framework to provide unprecedented high-fidelity modelling of cell, stack and system.

It provides a means simultaneously to analyse detailed micro-scale effects – AND optimise cell design and operation within the context of the whole fuel cell system.

Used within leading companies such as Toyota and Samsung, PSE's fuel cell models are changing the way that fuel cell systems are developed and designed.

The seminar, presented by PSE's CTO and fuel cell technology leader Zbigniew Urban, will show how gPROMS Fuel Cell can be used to address key questions in all of the above.

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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