Nissan Motor Company Limited

Mitsuhiro Kokubo

Takashi Fukuda

Masatoshi Iio

Takashi Iimori

Hitoshi Igarashi

Seiho Sugawara

Atsushi Ooma

A fuel cell has an anode, a cathode, and a proton-exchange membrane disposed between the anode and cathode. An exhaust anode gas exhausted from an outlet of the anode is directed back to an inlet of the anode. Hydrogen is added to the exhaust anode gas before the exhaust anode gas reaches the inlet.

Fuel cell start-up control system

A fuel cell system which includes: a fuel cell fed with a reaction gas for generating power; an output detection unit which detects output current and voltage of the fuel cell; a storage unit which stores a standard current-voltage characteristic of the fuel cell, from which a standard voltage of the fuel cell at an output current thereof is obtainable; and a gas feed mismatch detection unit which detects a gas feed mismatch of the reaction gas, based on a comparison between the detected output voltage of the fuel cell and the standard voltage at the detected output current, obtained from the standard current-voltage characteristic stored.

Fuel cell system

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Yokosuka, Japan

Mitsuhiro Kokubo