Degradation prediction of proton exchange membrane fuel cell using auto-encoder based health indicator and long short-term memory network |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;2. Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;3. State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China |
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Abstract: | As durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) remains as the main obstacle for its larger scale commercialization, predicting PEMFC degradation progress is thus an effective way to extend its lifetime. To realize reliable prediction, a novel health indicator (HI) extraction method based on auto-encoder is proposed in this paper, with which PEMFC future voltage can be predicted by long short-term memory network (LSTM). The effectiveness and robustness of proposed approach is investigated with test data simulating vehicle operation conditions, and accurate prediction performance can be observed, with the maximum root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.003513. Moreover, by comparing with two commonly prognostic methods including attention-based gated recurrent unit network and polarization model-LSTM, the proposed method can provide better predictions under various operating conditions. Furthermore, with the proposed method, the degradation mechanism of PEMFC can also be analyzed. Therefore, the proposed prognostic method can predict reliable PEMFC degradation progress and its corresponding degradation mechanisms, which will be beneficial in practical PEMFC systems for taking appropriate strategies to guarantee PEMFC durability. |
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Keywords: | Proton exchange membrane fuel cell Dynamic operating conditions Degradation analysis Auto-encoder Long short-term memory network |
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