This white paper details the benefits of fuel cell use in stationary power applications and Intelligent Energy’s evaporatively cooled architecture in particular. It highlights the potential thermal benefits offered by utilising the exhaust heat in Combined Heat and Power (CHP)systems.
MATLAB Simulink has been used to perform the data analysis, using dry air compression, thermodynamic and electrochemical equations such as those detailed in‘Fuel Cell Systems Explained’1 and‘Temperature regulation in an evaporatively cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack’2.
These calculations have been supplemented with measured polarisation data from representative Intelligent Energy fuel cell stack technology and measured pressure drop data from a representative IE-DRIVETM HD100 fuel cell system.
In all calculations of efficiency the lower heating value of hydrogen has been
used, @ 33.3kWh/kg.
For detailed contents, click IE-GRID-White-Paper-June-2024.pdf (intelligent-energy.com)
