Keywords
Green hydrogen
Polarization curve
Numerical simulation
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Abstract
Over the last decade, there has been considerable interest among the scientific community in studying and analyzing clean energy generation technologies. One of the technologies with the greatest potential for decarbonization is fuel cells, which produce energy without polluting emissions. This paper provides an overview of fuel cells and presents part of the work carried out by the CIMAT-CICY-Centro-GEO fuel cell research group in Mexico to analyze the performance of a PEM fuel cell (PEMFC) with a view to using green hydrogen as fuel. The numerical results of the simulations show that the mathematical models adequately reproduce the cell’s performance curves, allowing its operation to be analyzed under different conditions and parameters that are not directly measurable or are costly to measure to be estimated, as well as optimizing its operation through algorithms that find indicators to improve performance in simulated experiments.
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