A Diesel-Powered Fuel Cell APU-Reliability Issues and Mitigation Approaches

The paper deals with reliability issues of a diesel-powered fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU). The unit combines an autothermal diesel reformer and a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack. The focal point is mitigation approaches for increasing the reliability of the complete APU system. These...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) 2017-08, Vol.64 (8), p.6660-6670
Hauptverfasser:	Pregelj, Bostjan, Debenjak, Andrej, Dolanc, Gregor, Petrovcic, Janko
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Automobile industry Auxiliary power units Diesel fuels Fault protection fault-tolerant control design Fuel cells fuel processing Fuels Inductors power conversion power generation Product development Program processors Proton exchange membrane fuel cells Reliability Temperature sensors
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Zusammenfassung:	The paper deals with reliability issues of a diesel-powered fuel cell auxiliary power unit (APU). The unit combines an autothermal diesel reformer and a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack. The focal point is mitigation approaches for increasing the reliability of the complete APU system. These include control strategies on the one side, and electronic hardware solutions on the other. The measures, guarantying safe, reliable, and long-life operation, were developed, implemented and experimentally validated on a 3-kW net electric power APU system targeted for truck on-board applications.
ISSN:	0278-0046 1557-9948
DOI:	10.1109/TIE.2017.2674628