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UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
FACULTY OF PHYSICS Guest
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Conference: Bucharest University Faculty of Physics 2022 Meeting
Section: Physics and Technology of Renewable and Alternative Energy Sources
Title:
Software application for the fuel cells study
Authors:
Anda CIOBANU (1,2), Sanda VOINEA (1)
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Affiliation:
1) University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, 405 Atomistilor Street, 077125, Magurele, Romania
2) "Alexandru Lahovari" National College, 19 General Praporgescu Street, 240192 RamnicuValcea, România
E-mail
andacbn@yahoo.com
Keywords:
Fuel cell, theoretical parameters, modelling, Colaboratory software, Python
Abstract:
In the current economic and political context, the role of renewable energy is becoming significant due to the continuous increase in energy demand, the instability of fossil fuel prices and the socio-political and environmental problems. Fuel cells can be important contributors to renewable energy due to their high efficiency and their clean nature. The detailed study of these systems, the analysis of the operating characteristics and the factors that influence them, the optimization of the operating points, are useful in order to obtain high powers and efficiencies in the practical operation. In this paper we present how to employ Colaboratory software, an application developed on the Google Colab platform, which allows writing and executing Python code in browser, for the study of different types of fuel cells. We used this application in order to calculate the parameters of their operation from the laboratory measurements of characteristic current-voltage curves and power diagrams. Understanding how fuel cells work, the factors that influence the characteristics of the fuel-oxidant couple, provide the necessary data to describe the behavior of these systems in their real operation. Also, the obtained parameters by modeling help us to optimize the design of fuel cells in order to achieve maximum performance in practical applications.
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