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Is the fuel cell content of this software as simple as shown in the figure below? No cooling system, no flow channel calculations? How to turn on the cooling system?
This post was last edited by Manxing Bike on 2022-12-18 at 19:26. I’ve learned a little about it; the software comes with brief instructions, but it doesn’t show various logistics data or information related to electricity and heat in the flowcharts – only long lists of calculation results, which are less clear than those obtained using Excel. Below is a simulation structure that does not use the PEMFC module; it’s complex, but it can be used to model backflow, branch streams, and material circulation, as well as to understand heat dissipation requirements and water distribution. Explaining this would likely require quite a lot of text. For me, this method for calculating fuel cells is still better than the software’s built-in PEM module. I suspect I may not have properly utilized the software’s functions, and it’s also difficult to find relevant reference materials
Replace the reactor module with a PEMFC module; this should enable them to be combined.
But even in such a simple diagram as the first one, I still haven’t found the output interfaces for heat and electricity. Is there a simple example? Like the usual setup with hydrogen, air, and cold water – three inputs and three outputs – plus electrical output? Perhaps the software uses a different approach – it doesn’t have these interfaces, it only calculates the results, or outputs them using a calculator or something similar? This could be worth trying – to see if the calculator or something similar has a power output. Thank you!
A calculator is used to obtain indirect values such as current, voltage, power, heat, and humidity, but it’s quite troublesome to figure this out step by step; it turns out that the algorithm is very simple, with no feedback iteration involved, and its calculations do not take cooling into account. End