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A Simple, Low-cost, and Robust System to Measure the Volume of Hydrogen Evolved by Chemical Reactions with Aqueous Solutions
Published on: August 17, 2016
Real-time detection kit for hydrogen fuel cell
Hossein Pourrahmani1,2, Ali Javadi3, Amir Mahdi Hosseini Monazzah3
1Group of Energy Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sion, 1951, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Among hydrogen technologies, a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is known as an efficient device using hydrogen as the fuel. Although different real-time fault-diagnosis methods are available (i.e., voltage-based or electrochemical-based), the problem with these methods is their dependency on being directly connected to a computer, higher costs, lower security, and the need to perform the tests in a laboratory. The focus and the solution of this study are to propose a novel design of printed circuit board (PCB) that enables the implementation of the required sensors to detect/measure the operational parameters/contamination of PEMFC. The communication of the considered PCB will be with a server without direct contact through the Internet of Things (IoT). A specified computer. exe file has also been developed to directly connect to a personalized network hotspot (to increase security) and enable the wireless communication of the sensor and the computer. The outputs of this study can be considered a novel fault diagnosis kit that measures wirelessly using IoT. To verify the result 11 ppm and 12 ppm of was injected into the system, the IoT kit's measured data is compared with the experiments. The results comparison validated the suitability of the system.
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