Proton exchange membrane fuel cell multi-stack parallel gas supply and load-up experiment

Abstract

Given the current situation that there is no parallel experiment of multiple stacks in China, this paper uses a fuel cell test platform independently designed and produced by a company to study the performance of three fuel cells. This article describes the construction of the experimental test platform and the multi-stack load-up experiment. The experimental results show that the power generation of the three fuel cells is almost the same, which are 9475W, 9385W, and 9512W. When carrying out multi-stack load-up experiments, it was found that as the number of stacks increased, the voltage efficiency continued to decrease. The Analysis revealed that the parallel gas supply method caused uneven gas distribution, which caused some fuel cells to be in a state of hydrogen deficiency. This article proposes amendments to this problem.