A methodology allowing the design and the optimization of fuel cells systems has been developed in LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim. This solution enables to size components of a system, optimize architectures and geometries, develop and test control strategies, test different gas mixture and material solutions, predict produced voltage and transient evolution of temperatures, pressures, mass flow rates and gas mass fraction everywhere in the system.
The solution uses physical modeling, based on energy exchanges approach between basic elements which can be assembled to represent any configuration of a complete fuel cell system. It allows to create a predictive model of complete system, and to represent both static and dynamic behavior. It enables the simulation of the stack as well as global systems (coupling between stack, cooling system, feeding system, control system, electrical system…).
