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Keywords
Fuel cells--Design and construction; Fuel cells--Technological innovations; Academic theses;
Abstract
Fuel cell stacks containing hundreds of individual cells are capable of generating high voltage and current values needed for transportation, commercial, residential, portable and industrial power applications. Although majority of hydrogen produced today comes from reformulated natural gas generated through a process that creates a significant amount of carbon dioxide, fuel cell is still a viable energy source for the future electrical power applications. One of the hard cases of the fuel-cell power systems is proper monitoring, instrumentation and data acquisition of system parameters such as fuel flow into the system, AC and DC voltage values, load current, humidity, power, pressure, temperature, fuel utilization, overall system efficiency, noise, etc. Fuel cell test systems must precisely monitor and control the aforementioned hundreds of measurements in real-time. It is necessary to have an instrumentation system which is able to monitor and control fuel cell operation under varying conditions and accurately get information relating to real-time performance and operational characteristics to calculate fuel cell efficiency correctly. Instrumentation and interface systems must also provide flexible data acquisition, monitoring, and control capability to precisely control fuel cell operation. Therefore, a typical fuel cell test system requires high resolution, high-voltage input, isolation, and waveform acquisition capability. The objective of this applied research project is design and implementation of a high-resolution data acquisition and interface module for a 500 W Hydrogen fuel cell power station using LabVIEWTM PDS v8.20 software and field point based data acquisition modules.
Year of Submission
2008
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Industrial Technology
First Advisor
Recayi Pecen
Second Advisor
William Stigliani
Third Advisor
Hong "Jeffrey" Nie
Date Original
2008
Object Description
1 PDF file (80 leaves)
Copyright
©2008 Kenan Baltaci
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Baltaci, Kenan, "Development of a Data Acquisition and Interface Module for a Fuel Cell Power Station" (2008). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2007.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2007
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