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Title | ||
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Hardware/Software Data Acquisition System for Real Time Cell Temperature Monitoring in Air-Cooled Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. |
Abstract | ||
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This work presents a hardware/software data acquisition system developed for monitoring the temperature in real time of the cells in Air-Cooled Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (AC-PEFC). These fuel cells are of great interest because they can carry out, in a single operation, the processes of oxidation and refrigeration. This allows reduction of weight, volume, cost and complexity of the control system in the AC-PEFC. In this type of PEFC (and in general in any PEFC), the reliable monitoring of temperature along the entire surface of the stack is fundamental, since a suitable temperature and a regular distribution thereof, are key for a better performance of the stack and a longer lifetime under the best operating conditions. The developed data acquisition (DAQ) system can perform non-intrusive temperature measurements of each individual cell of an AC-PEFC stack of any power (from watts to kilowatts). The stack power is related to the temperature gradient; i.e., a higher power corresponds to a higher stack surface, and consequently higher temperature difference between the coldest and the hottest point. The developed DAQ system has been implemented with the low-cost open-source platform Arduino, and it is completed with a modular virtual instrument that has been developed using NI LabVIEW. Temperature vs time evolution of all the cells of an AC-PEFC both together and individually can be registered and supervised. The paper explains comprehensively the developed DAQ system together with experimental results that demonstrate the suitability of the system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.3390/s17071600 | SENSORS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
data acquisition,polymer electrolyte fuel cell,real time cell temperature monitoring,virtual instrument,Arduino | Refrigeration,Data acquisition,Arduino,Electronic engineering,Software,Control system,Temperature gradient,Engineering,Modular design,Temperature measurement | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
17 | 7.0 | 1424-8220 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.39 | 5 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francisca Segura Manzano | 1 | 2 | 0.39 |
| Veronica Bartolucci | 2 | 2 | 0.39 |
| José Manuel Andujar | 3 | 68 | 8.53 |