LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells helps design and optimize fuel cell stacks and systems by offering a singular modeling environment. It helps test different gas mixtures and material solutions and predict produced voltage. The solution helps create a predictive model of a fuel cell system as well as represent both static and dynamic behavior.

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells helps design and optimize fuel cell stacks and systems by offering a modeling environment. With LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells, users can size components, optimize architecture and geometries, and develop and test control strategies. Furthermore, it helps to test different gas mixtures and material solutions, predict produced voltage and transient evolution of temperatures, pressures, mass flow rates and gas mass fraction everywhere in the system.

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells uses physical modeling, based on an energy exchange approach between basic elements which can be assembled to represent any configuration of a complete fuel cell system. It helps create a predictive model of a complete system, and represent both static and dynamic behavior. LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells comes with multi-disciplinary libraries to cover each subsystem, all elements to build the complete digital mock-up of a FC system together with adapted tools to analyze and optimize it. It is able to simulate global systems as well as the stack (coupling between stack, cooling system, feeding system, control system, electrical system, etc.). For example, engineers can easily simulate either a polarization curve or an impedance spectrum, which makes it possible to run sensitivity analyses or parameter optimization to enhance the performance and the efficiency of the complete system or of a specific component.

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells comes with a set of analysis tools that are able to perform sensitivity analysis and obtain a better understanding of the physical behavior of the system. LMS Imagine also provides consulting services to customize existing solutions to specific needs and support our customers to get the best of our platform. From the model, it is easy to:

Compute a polarization curve or an impedance spectrum of a stack in different operational conditions
Test new architecture
Test new management strategies that work on the control laws of the different subsystems
Represent break-down configuration to optimize the design

LMS Imagine.Lab Fuel Cells is of particular interest to PEMFC or SOFC system integrators, fuel cell component manufacturers and electrochemistry research laboratories.

Features

Mass and heat transfer for gas mixtures and thermal hydraulic
Component design libraries
Stack dynamic modeling (electrochemistry, heat and mass transfer)
Subsystem interactions (storage, feeding, stack, after-treatment, cooling system, power conversion unit)
Tools for system analysis, parameter estimation and optimization

Benefits

Rapidly test and study new configurations and architecture on system efficiency and performance
Capitalize know-how and support collaborative engineering
Lower cost and higher efficiency product design
Reduce time-to-market and development costs
Optimize experimental programs

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	System model obtained by the assembly of a fuel cell and auxiliaries functional models. This model can be used in order to optimize system design (component sizing, computation of overall energy efficiency, evaluation of new architectures).		Results of the functional auxiliaries models showing the hydrogen consumption on a driving cycle, and several internal values of the system such as the water production in the stack.		The AMESim tool helps develop high-precision models that are well suited to customer requirements.

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