PEM Fuel Cell Modeling and Simulation Using MATLAB® This page intentionally left blank PEM Fuel Cell Modeling and Simulation ® Using MATLAB Colleen Spiegel AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Cover images courtesy of Getty Images, Corbis and iStockphoto Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, California 92101-4495, USA 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8RR, UK Copyright © 2008, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. MATLAB® is a registered trademark of The MathWorks, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, E-mail:
[email protected] You may also complete your request online via the Elsevier homepage (http://elsevier.com), by selecting “Support & Contact” then “Copyright and Permission” and then “Obtaining Permissions.” Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spiegel, Colleen. PEM fuel cell modeling and simulation using Matlab / Colleen Spiegel. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-12-374259-9 1. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells–Design and construction. 2. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells–Computer simulation. 3. Fuel cells–Design and construction. 4. MATLAB. I. Title. TK2931.S66 2008 621.31′2429–dc22 2008006621 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-0-12-374259-9 For information on all Academic Press publications visit our Web site at www.books.elsevier.com Printed in the United States of America 08 09 10 11 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Working together to grow libraries in developing countries www.elsevier.com | www.bookaid.org | www.sabre.org Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. An Introduction to Fuel Cells 1.1 Introduction 1.2 What Is a Fuel Cell? 1.3 Why Do We Need Fuel Cells? 1.4 History of Fuel Cells 1.5 Mathematical Models in the Literature 1.6 Creating Mathematical Models Chapter Summary Problems Bibliography 1 1 2 4 6 8 12 13 14 14