Hyundai Motor Company

Kia Motors Corporation

Kia Corporation

Soongsil University

Hanon Systems

Dae Jong Kim

Soon Il Jeon

Dong Hun Lee

Jin Oh Kim

Hyun Jae Lee

Jae Won Jung

Jung Jae Lee

Seung Yoon Lee

Gun Hyung Park

Sun Heum Baek

Jae Ho Han

Ki Chang Kim

Sung Wook Na

Jun Young Park

Jong Gyun Kim

Seong Cheol Jeong

Su Dong Han

Hyo Jin Park

Hyung Kook Kim

Jae Hoon Kim

Soon Woo Kwon

Sang Uk Kwon

Sang Wook Han

Ju Han Kim

Young Bum Kum

Kyu Il Lee

Nam Woo Lee

Hun Woo Park

Doo Hyun Kim

Ji Hyun Shim

Kyung Won Suh

Yei Sik Jeon

Hyun Suk Choo

Kil Sang Jang

Jong Jin Yoon

Seon Hak Kim

Sang Chul Yeom

Sung Bum Choi

Kyuil Lee

Jae Gwang Lee

Deuk Kuen Ahn

Hunwoo Park

Soonil Jeon

Mi Sun Kim

Sang Soo Eun

Jai Hyun Ahn

Chang Hwa Hyun

Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a fuel cell system, in which during operation of the fuel cell system, the device and method determine a minimum motoring current limit value applied to a motor for driving a fuel cell vehicle by varying an output current limit threshold value of the fuel cell stack by determining an available output current of the stack and by varying an available voltage lower limit threshold value of the stack by determining an available operating voltage of the stack, thereby preventing the fuel cell vehicle from rattling due to excessive limitation of output current of the stack. They also control the pressures of an anode and a cathode of the stack by monitoring whether the performance of the stack is degraded as limitation of output current of the stack is suppressed, thereby suppressing degradation of the performance of the stack.

Device and method for controlling fuel cell system

A device for controlling compensation for an air flow rate upon discharge of hydrogen off-gas and a method for controlling compensation for an air flow rate using the same is an air flow rate control device configured to control a flow rate of air supplied to a fuel cell cathode through an air supply unit of a fuel cell system, wherein the air flow rate control device is configured to determine whether a fuel discharge valve of the fuel cell system is opened and determine a fuel diffusion amount per unit time, wherein the fuel diffusion amount corresponds to an amount of the hydrogen off-gas discharged through the fuel discharge valve and diffused into an air supply unit through a humidifier, and compensate a target air flow rate depending on an oxygen concentration reduction proportion, determined according to the determined fuel diffusion amount per unit time and flow rate information of the air supply unit.

Method for controlling compensation for air flow rate during discharge of hydrogen off-gas in fuel cell system and apparatus using the same

A method of controlling a fuel cell includes collecting, by a control unit, environmental information and state information of a fuel cell stack; determining, by the control unit, a motor output offset value from the collected environmental information and the collected state information of the fuel cell stack; correcting, by the control unit, a default critical output corresponding to a current vehicle operating state based on the determined motor output offset value; determining, by the control unit, the stop or the restart of the fuel cell by comparing a motor output demand determined from current vehicle operating information with the corrected critical output; and controlling, by the control unit, an operating state of the fuel cell to become a state of the determined stop or restart.

Method of controlling fuel cell

A system and method for diagnosing a fuel cell includes one or more fuel cell modules each including a fuel cell stack to output power through a first converter and a battery connected to the fuel cell stack through a second converter; and a controller configured to determine whether diagnosis of the fuel cell stack included in the one or more fuel cell modules is required, and to control the one or more fuel cell module to simultaneously or sequentially diagnose the fuel cell stack determined to require diagnosis based on an output demand power of the one or more fuel cell modules.

System and method for fuel cell diagnosis

A system for determining performance of a fuel cell stack may include a vehicle that collects a current of the fuel cell stack and a current of the fuel cell stack and a server that receives the voltage of the fuel cell stack and the current of the fuel cell stack from the vehicle in real time, determines an average state of health (SOH) of the fuel cell stack for each current section within an effective current range based on the current of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack within the effective current range, determines an overall average SOH in the effective current range based on the average SOH of the fuel cell stack for each current section, and determines whether the fuel cell stack has failed based on the overall average SOH.

System and method for determining performance of fuel cell stack

A start control system of a fuel cell includes: a fuel cell configured to generate power upon receiving air and fuel; an air supply system configured to supply air to a cathode of the fuel cell through an air supply line; a fuel supply system configured to supply fuel to an anode of the fuel cell through a fuel supply line that re-circulates fuel discharged from an outlet of the anode of the fuel cell to an inlet of the anode to supply fuel; an air controller configured to control the air supply system such that air flowing into the air supply line bypasses the cathode of the fuel cell when a start ON signal is input; and a fuel controller configured to supply new fuel to the fuel supply line and to control the fuel supply system to purge fuel of the fuel supply line.

Start control system and method of fuel cell

A power generation control system of a fuel cell includes: the fuel cell generating a power through a chemical reaction between fuel and air; a consuming device connected to an output terminal of the fuel cell and consuming the power output from the fuel cell; a converter connected between the fuel cell and the consuming device in series or parallel and adjusting an output voltage of the fuel cell; a supply device supplying the air to the fuel cell; a voltage controller controlling the converter on the basis of a required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output; and a supply controller controlling the supply device on the basis of the required power or current of the fuel cell required to be output.

Power generation control system and method of a fuel cell

Disclosed are a system and method for controlling a cold start of a fuel cell. The system includes a fuel cell configured to be supplied with fuel gas and oxidizing gas so as to generate electric power, a main bus terminal configured to electrically connect an output terminal of the fuel cell to a high-voltage battery, accessories, or a driving device so as to output the electric power generated by the fuel cell, a main relay provided at the main bus terminal between the output terminal of the fuel cell and the high-voltage battery, the accessories, or the driving device and configured to electrically connect or cut off the main bus terminal, a COD resistor connected to the main bus terminal at an output terminal side of the fuel cell with reference to the main relay, and a controller configured to supply the electric power generated by the fuel cell to the COD resistor in the state in which the main relay is cut off, and to control the COD resistor to consume the electric power generated by the fuel cell and supplied thereto.

System and method for controlling cold start of fuel cell

A method and system of controlling hydrogen purge are provided. The method includes estimating an air supply rate supplied to a fuel cell stack and then executing hydrogen purge based on the estimated air supply rate.

Method and system for controlling hydrogen purge

A startup control method for a fuel cell is provided. The method includes calculating available power of a high-voltage battery when a startup of the fuel cell is requested. An air compressor is then driven based on a calculated magnitude of the available power of the high-voltage battery and a low-voltage battery is charged with the power of the high-voltage battery after the driving of the air compressor is completed.

Startup control method and control system for fuel cell

The present disclosure relates to a method of recovering performance of a fuel cell stack in a fuel cell system of a vehicle. The method includes determining whether the fuel cell stack is in a state in which a stack performance recovery operation is possible based on information collected from the vehicle using a predetermined stack state determination criterion, determining whether the vehicle is in a state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible based on operation information of a fuel cell system, and performing the stack performance recovery operation upon determining that the fuel cell stack is in the state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible and that the vehicle is in the state in which the stack performance recovery operation is possible.

Method of recovering performance of fuel cell stack

A method and a system for controlling startup of a fuel cell are provided. The method includes sensing a startup request signal and boosting a Bi-directional high-voltage DC/DC Converter (BHDC) of a main bus stage when the startup request signal has been sensed by a controller. A valve of an air/hydrogen line is then opened together with the boosting of the BHDC and the startup of the fuel cell is completed by allowing an output of the fuel cell after the valve of the air/hydrogen line is opened.

Method and system for controlling startup of fuel cell

An operating control method of a fuel cell stack is provide. The method includes diagnosing performance of a fuel cell stack based on an output current of the fuel cell stack, when an operating voltage of the fuel cell stack is within a predetermined diagnostic voltage range. Whether a recovery operation of the fuel cell stack is required is determined based on the diagnosed performance of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack is reduced, when the recovery operation of the fuel cell stack is required to recover performance of the fuel cell stack.

Operating control method and control system of fuel cell stack

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a concentration of exhaust hydrogen in a fuel cell system. The apparatus may include an air exhaust valve for discharging hydrogen from a cathode in a fuel cell stack to an outside environment through an air exhaust line, an air compressor for supplying ambient air to the air exhaust line, an air cut-off valve for blocking air supplied to the cathode, and a controller that opens the air exhaust valve and drives the air compressor when starting to supply hydrogen to the fuel cell stack, and opens the air cut-off valve such that a concentration of the hydrogen discharged from the cathode is reduced by air in the air exhaust line when the hydrogen supply is completed.

Apparatus and method for controlling concentration of exhaust hydrogen in fuel cell system

The present invention provides a relative humidity and condensed water estimator for a fuel cell and a method for controlling condensed water drain using the same. Here, the relative humidity and condensed water estimator is utilized in control of the fuel cell system involving control of anode condensed water drain by outputting at least two of signals comprising air-side relative humidity, hydrogen-side relative humidity, air-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, hydrogen-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, instantaneous and cumulative condensed water of the humidifier, membrane water contents, catalyst layer oxygen partial pressure, catalyst layer hydrogen partial pressure, stack or cell voltage, air-side catalyst layer relative humidity, hydrogen-side catalyst layer relative humidity, oxygen supercharging ratio, hydrogen supercharging ratio, residual water in a stack, and residual water in a humidifier.

Controller for estimating relative humidity and condensed water, and method for controlling condensed water drain using the same

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Dae Jong Kim