Abstract
Durability is one of the limiting factors for spreading and commercialization of fuel cell technology. That is why research to extend fuel cell durability is being conducted world wide. A pattern-recognition approach aiming to estimate fuel cell operating time based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy measurements is presented here. It is based on extracting the features from the impedance spectra. For that purpose, two approaches have been investigated. In the first one, particular points of the spectrum are empirically extracted as features. In the second approach, a parametric modeling is performed to extract features from both the real and the imaginary parts of the impedance spectrum. In particular, a latent regression model is used to automatically split the spectrum into several segments that are approximated by polynomials. The number of segments is adjusted taking into account the a priori knowledge about the physical behavior of the fuel cell components. Then, a linear regression model using different subsets of extracted features is employed for an estimate of the fuel cell operating time. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is evaluated on an experimental dataset. Allowing the estimation of the fuel cell operating time, and consequently its remaining duration life, these results could lead to interesting perspectives for predictive fuel cells maintenance policy.
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