Method for generating injected current of fuel cell stack

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9385383-B2
Application number	US-201314135211-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2013
Priority date	Dec 20, 2012
Publication date	Jul 5, 2016
Grant date	Jul 5, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a method for generating an injected current of fuel cell stack, including: generating a synthesized frequency current in a form in which a first frequency current is synthesized with a second frequency current; and applying the synthesized frequency current to the fuel cell stack, wherein the first frequency current and the second frequency current are each used to calculate at least one of total harmonic distortion and impedance. According to the embodiment of the present invention, a hardware configuration may be reduced by applying the synthesized frequency current of the AC current for calculating the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the AC current for calculating the impedance to the fuel cell stack, without generating the AC current for calculating the total harmonic distortion (THD) and the AC current for calculating the impedance, respectively, thereby reducing a price and a size of the fuel cell stack.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for generating an injected current of a fuel cell stack performed by an apparatus for generating an injected current of a fuel cell stack, the method comprising:
generating a synthesized frequency current in a form in which a first frequency current is synthesized with a second frequency current;
applying the synthesized frequency current to the fuel cell stack; and
determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty by using an output voltage of the fuel cell stack,
wherein the first frequency current and the second frequency current are each used to calculate at least one of total harmonic distortion and impedance, and
wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes
passing the output voltage of the fuel cell stack through a band pass filter which passes through only a specific frequency and a high pass filter which passes through the specific frequency to a frequency of the specific frequency or more respectively;
extracting a harmonic frequency from a fundamental wave frequency by passing the stack voltage through the high pass filter; and
extracting the specific frequency by passing the stack voltage through the band pass filter.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty depending on a ratio of the harmonic frequency to the fundamental wave frequency which is extracted by the high pass filter.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes determining that the fuel cell stack is faulty when the ratio of the harmonic frequency to the fundamental wave frequency is a specific ratio or more.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes determining whether the fuel cell stack is in a wetting state by using the impedance of the specific frequency extracted by the band pass filter.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes determining that an electrolyte membrane of the fuel cell stack is in a dried state when the impedance of the specific frequency is specific impedance or more.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the determining whether the fuel cell stack is faulty includes determining that the electrolyte membrane of the fuel cell stack is in a wetting state when the impedance of the specific frequency is the specific impedance or less.

Assignees

• Hyundai Autron Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Hyun-Seok
• Kim Uck-Soo
• Kang Sun-Doo

Classifications

• H01M8/04679 Primary

  of fuel cell stacks · CPC title

• H01M2008/1095

  Fuel cells with polymeric electrolytes · CPC title

• H01M8/04529

  of the electrolyte · CPC title

• Y02E60/50

  Fuel cells · CPC title

• H01M8/04559

  of fuel cell stacks · CPC title