WO2005078845A2 - Fuel cell system - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to fuel cell systems and, more particularly, to a fuel cell system having an internal load through which a load current is extracted from the fuel cell body when stopping the operation of the fuel cell system.
- a fuel cell system is an electric power generation system, operative to achieve electrochemical reaction between hydrogen, obtained by reforming fuel such as natural gas, and oxygen in air for directly generating electric power, which is able to effectively utilize chemical energy owned by fuel and has characteristics friendly to environments, and research and development work has been undertaken in a full scale to commercially apply the fuel cell system into practical use.
- external loads such as a drive motor
- no load voltage appears in a voltage across an anode electrode and a cathode electrode of the fuel cell body, resulting in a high voltage condition that exceeds a value of 0.8V per unit cell.
- the stop time of the fuel cell system may be preferably short as less as possible. It is thus preferable for the voltage to be lowered as fast as possible only for the stop time to be shortened.
- the fuel cell system is stopped by permitting gas pressures, remaining in the cathode electrode and the anode electrode of the fuel ell body, to be lowered to the atmospheric pressure. The gas pressure of the cathode electrode is lowered during electric power generation by connecting the dummy resistor to the fuel cell body with no supply of air to the cathode electrode in a manner described above.
- a fuel cell system comprising a fuel cell body having an anode electrode supplied with fuel gas containing hydrogen and a cathode electrode supplied with oxidizer gas, a catalyst degradation-suppressing device operative to interrupt supplying oxidizer gas to the cathode electrode after disconnecting the external load from the fuel cell body and allow a load current, generated by the fuel cell body, to be extracted by an internal load while supplying the fuel gas to the anode electrode, a hydrogen supply stop device operative to interrupt a supply of the fuel gas to the anode electrode except for residual hydrogen being supplied thereto during a period in which the load current is extracted by the internal load, and a load current control device controlling a target load current such that after the supply of fuel gas to the anode electrode is stopped, a pressure inside the anode electrode is maintained at a target pressure.
- Another aspect of the present invention provides a method of operating a fuel cell system, comprising providing a fuel cell body having an anode electrode supplied with fuel gas containing hydrogen and a cathode electrode supplied with oxidizer gas for supplying electric power to an external load, providing an internal load, interrupting a supply of oxidizer gas to the cathode electrode after disconnecting the external load from the fuel cell body, connecting the internal load to the fuel cell body to allow a load current to be extracted from the fuel cell body while supplying the fuel gas to the anode electrode, interrupting a supply of the fuel gas to the anode electrode except for residual hydrogen being supplied thereto during a period in which the load current is extracted by the internal load, and controlling a target load current such that after the supply of fuel gas to the anode electrode is interrupted, a pressure inside the anode electrode is maintained at a target pressure.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a fuel cell system of a first embodiment according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating for stopping the operation of the fuel cell system shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed operation of S50 shown in FIG. 2.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed operation of S90 shown in FIG 2.
- FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a detailed operation of S910 shown in FIG. 4.
- FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a sequence of obtaining a target load current from a target pressure and a measured value of a pressure sensor at an inlet of an anode electrode using a microcomputer shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a fuel cell system of a first embodiment according to the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating for stopping the operation of the fuel cell system shown in FIG. 1.
- FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating
- FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating a fuel cell system of a second embodiment according to the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating a basic sequence of operations of the fuel cell system, shown in FIG 7. during stopping operation thereof.
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating detailed operations of S50A shown in FIG 8.
- FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating detailed operations of S510A shown in FIG. 9.
- FIG. 1 1 is a flowchart illustrating detailed operations of S530 shown in FIG 9.
- FIGS. 12A to 12C are views illustrating first effects resulting from the first and second embodiments.
- FIGS. 13A to 13C are views illustrating second effects resulting from the first and second embodiments.
- FIGS. 14A to 14C are views illustrating third effects resulting from the first and second embodiments.
- FIG. 15 is a view illustrating fourth effects resulting from the first and second embodiments.
- a fuel cell body 1 has an anode electrode supplied with fuel gas, such as hydrogen, and a cathode electrode supplied with oxidizer gas, such as air, for electrochemically reacting hydrogen and oxygen to generate electric power and heat, resulting from electric power generation, is radiated via cooling water (coolant) flowing through coolant flow channels.
- fuel gas such as hydrogen
- oxidizer gas such as air
- the anode electrode and the cathode electrode are placed adjacent one another by means of an electrolyte membrane 33. Disposed on the anode electrode and the cathode electrode on outsides thereof via separators 31, respectively, are pure water electrodes. Also disposed on the pure water electrode via a separator 32 on a side close to the cathode electrode is a coolant flow channel. Electrode reactions take place in the fuel cell body 1 to generate electric power as the following reactions (1) and (2).
- Anode Electrode H 2 ⁇ 2H + +2e '
- Hydrogen gas stored in a hydrogen tank 2 is supplied to the anode electrode via a hydrogen supply base valve (ON/OFF valve) 3 serving as a hydrogen supply stop device, a pressure reduction valve 301 and a hydrogen pressure regulator valve (variable valve) 4.
- the pressure reduction valve 301 mechanically reduces hydrogen pressure to a given pressure.
- the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 regulates the hydrogen pressure inside the anode electrode to a desired value.
- the hydrogen pressure of the anode electrode is controlled by a hydrogen pressure control means 23 that is operative to allow the hydrogen pressure, detected by a pressure sensor 6a, to be fed back to the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 that is consequently driven. Controlling the hydrogen pressure to a fixed level causes hydrogen to be automatically compensated by a rate equal to a rate of hydrogen consumed by the fuel cell body 1.
- an ejector 5 Connected between an inlet and an outlet of the anode electrode is an ejector 5, by which hydrogen (exhaust hydrogen), expelled from the outlet without being consumed in the anode electrode, is circulated to the inlet of the anode electrode, and a hydrogen circulation pump 8 that compensates a region in which the ejector 5 does not cover.
- a purge valve (ON/OFF valve) 7 Connected to the outlet of the anode electrode are a purge valve (ON/OFF valve) 7 through which hydrogen (exhaust hydrogen), expelled from the anode electrode, is purged, and a dilution blower 9 by which hydrogen, purged from the purge valve 7, is diluted with air to a hydrogen concentration less than a flammable concentration for exhaust to an outside of a vehicle.
- the purge valve 7 plays a role to discharge nitrogen accumulated in a hydrogen delivery line for enhancing a hydrogen circulating function and a role to blow out clogged water that stops up in gas flow channels. Supplied to the cathode electrode of the fuel -cell body 1 is compressed air delivered from a compressor 10.
- an air pressure regulator valve (variable valve) 11.
- the air pressure of the cathode electrode is controlled by an air pressure control means 22 by which an air pressure, detected by a pressure sensor 6b, is fed back to the air pressure regulator valve 1 1 that is consequently driven.
- a sensor 29 for measuring a moisture concentration of cathode exhaust air
- a sensor 30 that measures a hydrogen concentration of cathode exhaust air. Pure water, stored in a pure water tank 13, is supplied to the pure water electrode of the fuel cell body 1 by a pure water pump 12.
- pure water collecting valves 14a to 14c Disposed on a pure water flow channel are pure water collecting valves 14a to 14c and a pure water shutoff valve (ON/OFF valve) 14d. Also, the pure water collecting valve 14b has a shutoff function. When hydrogen is supplied to the anode electrode with no pure water being circulated during startup and halt of the system, closing both the pure water collecting valve 14b and the pure water shutoff valve 14d allows hydrogen to be suppressed from leaking to a pure water delivery conduit.
- a pure water collecting means 25 allows the pure water collecting valves 14a to 14c to be driven for thereby permitted pure water, remaining in the pure water electrodes of the fuel cell body 1 and pure water delivery conduits, to be collected to the pure water tank 13 using the air pressure.
- a three-way valve 16 and a radiator 17 disposed in the coolant water flow channels are a three-way valve 16 and a radiator 17, and the three-way valve 16 is operative to switch coolant water flow to the radiator or a bypass passage of the radiator to cause split- flows.
- Rotating a radiator fan 18 cools coolant water flowing through the radiator 17.
- the temperature of coolant water is regulated by a coolant water temperature control means 24 that allows a coolant water temperature, detected by the temperature sensor 19, to be fed back to and drive the three-way valve 16 and the radiator fan 18.
- the fuel cell system is comprised of a power manager 20, serving as a load current control device, through which electric power, generated by the fuel cell body 1, is extracted and supplied to external loads L such as an electric motor (not shown) by which the vehicle is driven, a voltage sensor 21 that detects a given voltage, at which the hydrogen supply is to .be interrupted in a manner as will be described later, during a drop in a voltage of the fuel cell body 1, an oxygen consumption means 34 connected to the power manager 20, and a microcomputer 28, composed of a central processing unit (CPU) and associated peripheral interfaces, which serves as a catalyst degradation-suppressing device as will be described below.
- a power manager 20 serving as a load current control device, through which electric power, generated by the fuel cell body 1, is extracted and supplied to external loads L such as an electric motor (not shown) by which the vehicle is driven
- a voltage sensor 21 that detects a given voltage, at which the hydrogen supply is to .be interrupted in a manner as will be described later, during a drop in a voltage
- the oxygen consumption means 34 is comprised of an internal load (dummy resistor) 26 by which a load current generated in the fuel cell body 1 is extracted, .and a switch 27 by which the fuel cell body 1 and the dummy resistor 26 are connected or disconnected.
- the oxygen consumption means 34 includes a dummy-resistor variable resistor device that is able to control the load current, to be extracted, at an arbitrary rate in response to commands delivered to the power manager 20. Also, the extracted electric power is charged to a battery.
- the power manager 20 internally incorporates a DCDC.
- the dummy resistor 26 is used for suppressing corrosion degrading of a cathode catalyst induced by hydrogen distribution on the anode electrode of each unit cell of the fuel cell body 1.
- the switch 27 is controlled to turn on or turn off the dummy resistor 26 to suppress corrosion degrading of the cathode catalyst.
- FIG. 2 a basic sequence of operations of stopping the operation of the fuel cell system shown in FIG 1.
- Tn S1 s external loads L such as a vehicle drive motor, are disconnected from the fuel cell body 1 .
- the compressor 10 is stopped to interrupt the supply of air to the cathode electrode, while fully opening the air regulator valve 11.
- the anode electrode is continuously supplied with hydrogen.
- the hydrogen circulation pump 8 is also continuously operated.
- target pressure refers to a differential pressure upper limit value between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode.
- the target pressure is a product, in which the differential pressure upper limit value is added to the atmospheric pressure, and due to the stop of supplying air, an anode target pressure is unable to take a high pressure. Accordingly, if an increased load current is extracted, there is a high risk with a transient shortage in hydrogen.
- the target load current is delivered to the power manager 20 and the power manager 20 operates to create a difference in potential so as to allow the dummy resistor 26 to extract the target load power.
- the power manager 20 operates to create a difference in potential so as to allow the dummy resistor 26 to extract the target load power.
- there is a need for lowering the voltage as fast as possible and, to this end, a need arises to extract as large load current as possible.
- the dummy resistor 26 is connected to the fuel cell body 1 to allow the load current to flow through the dummy load 26, a drop in voltage occurs in the fuel cell body 1. This enables the suppression in dissolution degradation of the platinum catalyst.
- the operation proceeds to S32 and if the voltage exceeds the first given value (with NO in S30), the operation proceeds to S35.
- the target load current is delivered to the power manager (PM) 20 and, thereafter, the operation is jumped to "RETURN".
- V the rotational speed of the hydrogen circulation pump 8 is increased. Also, the purge valve 7 is opened for a given time interval and, thereafter, closed.
- Increasing the rotational speed of the hydrogen circulation pump 8 causes an increase in the amount of hydrogen passing through the anode electrode of the fuel cell body 1 such that the shortage of hydrogen is avoided when the supply of hydrogen is stopped and the load current is caused to flow through the dummy resistor 26 while consuming hydrogen. Opening the purge valve 7 allows gaseous impurities, other than hydrogen, staying on the anode electrode to be purged to enable fresh hydrogen to enter the inside of the anode electrode. This enables the prevention of the occurrence of shortage of hydrogen during a period wherein the hydrogen supply is stopped and the load current is caused to flow through the dummy resistor 26 while consuming hydrogen. (VI) In S40, the hydrogen supply base valve 3 is closed to stop the supply of hydrogen from the hydrogen tank 2.
- the supply of hydrogen is stopped in the course of continuing the consumption of the load current with the dummy resistor 26 under a condition in which no voltage adequately drops yet. Even if the hydrogen supply base valve 3 is closed, compressed hydrogen gas remains in a downstream of the hydrogen supply base valve 3 and no hydrogen immediately disappears. It is thus possible for the dummy resistor 26 to continuously consume the load current.
- compressed hydrogen is exhausted from the downstream of the hydrogen supply base valve 3 to allow a residual pressure of the anode electrode to drop to the atmospheric pressure whereupon the system is halted.
- the target pressure is set for the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode to be controlled by the load current according to the present invention.
- a "target pressure lower limit vale” is a product of the pressure of the anode electrode to which the differential pressure upper limit vale between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode is added, Also, since the hydrogen supply has been already stopped, the pressure of the cathode electrode lies at the atmospheric pressure.
- VIII In S60, the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode begins to be controlled by the use of the load current according to the present invention. As shown in FIG.
- the "target load current" is obtained from the target pressure and a measured value of the pressure sensor 6a, placed at the inlet of the anode electrode, using the microcomputer 28 as a PI controller.
- the operation is executed to stop controlling the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode by the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4. More particularly, since in S40, the hydrogen supply base valve 3 is closed to stop the supply of hydrogen, the pressure control of the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 is stopped and switched to the controlling of the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode with the load current according to the present invention. Then in S80, the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 is progressively and fully opened in a given response.
- the hydrogen supply is stopped under a condition where the dummy resistor 26 is used in S40 to consume the load current while the voltage remains at the high level such that residual hydrogen is consumed by causing the load current to flow through the dummy resistor 26.
- a shortage of hydrogen takes place. If the shortage of hydrogen occurs, protons run short and, to compensate the shortage of protons, reaction takes place on the cathode electrode among the cathode catalyst and carbon material, supporting the catalyst, and water (H 2 O). This results in reduction in effective surface area of the cathode catalyst to cause corrosion degrading reaction to take place with the resultant remarkable increase in damages to the fuel cell.
- the fuel cell system of the first embodiment including the hydrogen supply line provided with the hydrogen supply base valve 3 and the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4, even if the hydrogen supply base valve 3 is closed, compressed hydrogen is present in its downstream.
- the pressure prevailing between the hydrogen supply base valve 3 and the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 lies at a higher level than those prevailing at the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 and the inlet of the anode electrode. Therefore, residual hydrogen flows into the anode electrode of the fuel cell body 1 on and on. If the flow of hydrogen is left intact, the anode electrode pressure increases on and on. In this moment, if the load current is extracted for consumption of hydrogen, the pressure rise can be suppressed.
- handling the amount of hydrogen to be consumed by the load current in a way to obtain the "target pressure” provides an action in which hydrogen, flowing into the anode electrode, and hydrogen, consumed with the load current, are maintained to match to one another. Due to such an action, hydrogen can be consumed by the load current at the same rate as that incoming to the anode electrode and, thus, the anode electrode pressure can be maintained at the "target pressure". Also, it becomes possible to avoid risks of shortage in hydrogen in the course of causing the load current to flow through the dummy resistor 26 for consumption of hydrogen while the hydrogen supply is stopped. (XI) In S90, discrimination is made whether it is available to stop the fuel cell system. A detail of this operation will be described below with reference to FIG 4.
- the load current is extracted to consume hydrogen with the resultant reduction in residual hydrogen, a drop occurs in the amount of hydrogen incoming to the anode electrode.
- the amount of hydrogen consumed by the load current also decreases with a decrease in the amount of incoming hydrogen.
- the pressure between the hydrogen supply base valve 3 and the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4 equalized to the pressure of the inlet of the anode electrode in a balanced condition, there is no hydrogen incoming to the anode electrode. In such a way, the load current progressively decreases and finally reaches to zero.
- discrimination is made that residual hydrogen for the target pressure to be maintained is absent.
- a fuel cell system of a second embodiment according to the present invention is a system wherein the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 4, provided in the fuel cell system shown in FIG. 1, is dispensed with in the hydrogen supply line to allow the realization of shortening a stop time with only the hydrogen pressure regulator valve 3.
- a target value (target load current) of a load current to be consumed by the dummy resistor 26 is set and, depending on this value, the target value (target load current) of the load current [A] to ' be extracted from the fuel cell body 1 is calculated.
- the dummy resistor switch 27 is closed to connect the dummy resistor 26 to the fuel cell body 1.
- discrimination is made whether a voltage of the fuel cell body 1 becomes less than a given value. If the voltage is less than the given value (with YES in S30), the operation proceeds to S32 and if the voltage exceeds the given value (with NO in S30), the operation proceeds to S35.
- the target load current is delivered to the power manager (PM) 20 and, thereafter, the operation is jumped intact to step "RETURN".
- the operation is executed to increase the rotational speed of the hydrogen circulation pump 8. Also, the purge valve 8 is opened for a given time interval and, thereafter, closed.
- the hydrogen supply base valve 3 is closed to stop supplying hydrogen to the anode electrode from the hydrogen tank 2.
- a target pressure is set for the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode to be controlled by the load current according to the present invention. Details of S50A are described below with reference to FIG. 9.
- (V) In S60 the operation begins to control the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode using the load current according to the present invention.
- a target load current to be obtained based on a target pressure and a measured value resulting from the pressure sensor 6a associated with the inlet of the anode electrode.
- the target load current calculated in S20 is cancelled and the target load current, calculated upon controlling the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode by the load current according to the present invention, is adopted and delivered to the power manager (PM) 20.
- a target pressure lower limit value is calculated based on a dilution capacity of the dilution blower 9.
- a target pressure drop response pattern is set with a given response time constant.
- the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode is regulated on the target pressure drop response pattern such that the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode drops at the given response time constant. Therefore, the lower the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode, the less will be the rate of change per unit time in the target pressure.
- the operation proceeds to S535A, where discrimination is made whether the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode is less than the given value. If the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode is less than the given value (with YES in S535A), the operation proceeds S540A, where the target pressure drop response pattern is altered to another target pressure drop response pattern that provides a slower response than that of the target pressure drop response pattern set in S520A. It is thus contemplated that upon consumption of hydrogen to remove residual hydrogen the resultant drop in the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode, no shortage of hydrogen occurs when the load current is caused to flow through the dummy resistor 26 for consumption of hydrogen.
- Do[m] represents an orifice diameter of the purge valve 7
- ⁇ P represents a pressure (variable) of the anode electrode from which the atmospheric pressure is subtracted
- p[kg/m 3 ] represents a density of hydrogen gas
- K represents a coefficient of the flow rate
- Di[m] represents a diameter of a conduit.
- S5300A the operation proceeds to S5400A, where the pressure variable of the anode electrode is altered for re-calculation whereupon the operation is routed back to S5100A.
- S530A detailed operations of S530A are described below with reference to FIG. 1 1.
- a measured value of the pressure sensor 6 at the inlet of the anode electrode is read in.
- S5310A discrimination is made whether a difference between the target pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode and the measured value of the pressure sensor 6a exceeds a given value.
- the hydrogen supply line only incorporates the hydrogen supply base valve 3
- the pressure between the hydrogen supply base valve 3 and the anode electrode remains in a balanced condition when the hydrogen supply is stopped in S40 to cause the hydrogen supply base valve 3 to be closed. Therefore, if such a condition remains intact, no residual hydrogen flows into the anode electrode. No flow of residual hydrogen occurs unless the load current is extracted to cause a drop in the pressure of the anode electrode.
- the target pressure is lowered with the given response time constant and the pressure at the inlet of the anode electrode is controlled by the load current flowing through the dummy resistor 26, thereby permitting the load current to be extracted from the fuel cell body 3 in an effort to decrease the pressure to the target pressure.
- S90A is comprised of S910 to S930 shown in FIG. 4.
- S910 discrimination is made in the same sequence as that of S530A in FIG. 11 whether residual hydrogen available for the target pressure to be maintained is present. If no residual hydrogen available for the target pressure to be maintained is absent (with YES in S910, the operation proceeds to S920A, where discrimination is made whether the pressure prevailing at the inlet of the anode electrode is less than a minimal lower value.
- the minimal lower limit value is determined to take a value lying at the amount of hydrogen that can be diluted to a flammable lower limit margin (of 4%) of hydrogen with the dilution blower 9 operated in S510A. Accordingly, if discrimination i s made in S920 that the pressure lays at the minimal lower limit vale (with YES in S920), since hydrogen can be diluted to a value less than the flammable limit even if residual hydrogen is discharged at once, discrimination is made in S930 that the fuel cell system can be halted.
- the entire content of Japanese Application No. P2004-039884 with a filing date of February 17, 2004 is herein incorporated by reference.
- the catalyst degradation-suppressing device is used to execute operations wherein in the course of connecting the dummy resistor 26 to the fuel cell body 1 to cause a drop in the voltage thereof (after the voltage of the fuel cell body 1 drops to the given voltage), the supply of hydrogen is stopped and residual hydrogen is consumed by the load current flowing through the dummy resistor 26. Concurrently, the operations are executed to suppress the catalyst from degrading and residual hydrogen is lowered to the atmospheric pressure, thereby enabling the shortening of the time for the fuel cell system to be stopped and terminated. As shown in FIGS.
- the operations are executed by: (a) waiting until the voltage drops to the given voltage at which the supply of hydrogen can be stopped; (b) interrupting the supply of hydrogen at the relevant given voltage; and (c) permitting residual hydrogen to be consumed the load current flowing through the dummy resistor 26 and concurrently executing the operations to suppress the catalyst from degrading and decrease residual hydrogen to the atmospheric pressure.
- the operations are executed by: (1) waiting until the voltage reaches to a given voltage at which the dummy resistor 26 can be shutoff while supplying hydrogen; (2) interrupting the supply of hydrogen at the relevant given voltage; and (3) diluting residual hydrogen by the dilution blower 9. Therefore, as shown in FIG.
- the present invention makes it possible to shorten the stop time by a time period for which the operations are concurrently executed to suppress the catalyst from degrading and to lower residual hydrogen to the atmospheric pressure.
- the target load current to be extracted from the fuel cell body 1 in a way to allow the pressure of anode electrode to be maintained at the given pressure, is calculated to control the hydrogen electrode pressure in a way to consume residual hydrogen.
- the amount Qin of incoming hydrogen needs to be equal to the amount Qout of consumed hydrogen. Due to such an action, if the load current, extracted from the fuel cell body 1 , is controlled in a way to allow the pressure of the anode electrode to be maintained at the given pressure, the amount of hydrogen incoming to the anode electrode and the amount of hydrogen consumed by the load current become equal to one another, enabling the prevention of a shortage of hydrogen. As shown in FIG.
- the present invention since the operation is switched to step of executing the anode-electrode pressure control based on the load current operation such that the amount of hydrogen consumed with the load current equals the amount of hydrogen flowing into the anode electrode, the shortage of hydrogen can be prevented.
- discrimination is made when the load current control device is executed that no residual hydrogen available for the target pressure to be maintained is absent.
- the hydrogen supply is stopped, as residual hydrogen is consumed so as to maintain the pressure of the anode electrode at the target pressure, the amount of hydrogen, consumed by the load current, progressively decreases to zero due to the target pressure being maintained.
- the load current is caused to flow to consume the same amount of hydrogen as that of incoming hydrogen (i.e., to consume hydrogen involved in the entire system under a balanced pressure) and a balanced condition is present at the target pressure whereby the amount of incoming hydrogen and the load current become zero.
- the fuel cell system can be terminated even when the voltage of the fuel cell body 1 does not drop below a sufficiently low level. This makes it possible to prevent the catalyst from degrading, due to the shortage of hydrogen, which results in worse degradation losses than those of platinum catalyst dissolving degradation resulting from the exposure of the fuel cell body 1 to a high voltage condition.
- the target pressure is lowered such that the lower the pressure of the anode electrode, the slower will be the drop speed of the target pressure. Altering the target pressure to a further decreased value results in an action to cause an increase in the amount of hydrogen to be consumed by the load current, resulting in a capability of decreasing residual pressure of the anode electrode at a fast rate for thereby enabling the shortening of the stop time.
- the rate of change per unit time in the amount of hydrogen to be consumed is able to cause a reduction in the amount of residual hydrogen, enabling reduction in a risk of shortage of hydrogen when the amount of residual hydrogen is getting low.
- hydrogen is circulated in a continuous fashion until the fuel cell system is terminated from the start of executing the operation of the catalyst degradation-suppressing device.
- the purge valve 7 is opened to purge gaseous impurities, other than hydrogen, staying in the anode electrode to the outside to allow an inside of the hydrogen circulation path to be filled with fresh hydrogen prior to interrupting the supply of hydrogen during the execution of the catalyst degradation-suppressing device.
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