Investigation the effect of humidification inlet gases on the dynamic response of a PEM fuel cell stack

To get the real answer a PEM fuel cell system to load changing, dynamic modeling is necessary because static modeling independent of time and it shows the system performance in just one or a few points. In this study, the dynamic performance of a PEM fuel cell stack is modeled in the Matlab Simulink and is validated by the data available in the literature. Modeling is done in two parts; in the first part, the input gases to the fuel cell stack are dray and the second part, the gases entering to the stack are humidification. In order to investigate dynamic response of system to rapid changes in electrical current, the variable electrical current is entered into the system step by step then the effect of this change on output voltage, consumption of reactants, temperature and pressure are obtained. Analyzing results of first part indicates that the time delay of system response to electrical current changes. With increasing the electrical current, the temperature of cell body, consumption of reactants and amount of input gases into the anode and the cathode channels are increased. The temperature of anode and cathode channels and fuel cell body are different and with increasing the stack power are more differences. Analyzing the results of second part indicates that with increasing the relative humidity of input gases the ohmic loss and so on the body temperature of fuel cell is decreased.