METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEASURING IMPEDANCE FOR DIAGNOSIS OF FUEL CELL STACK

• US 20140188414A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kangnam University Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kangnam University Industry-Academia Cooperation Foundation
• Inventors: JEONG, Kwi Seong, KIM, Sae-Hoon, LEE, Young Hyun
• Application Number:
  US14/137,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188414A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/63
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/389 Measuring internal impedance, internal conductance or related variables
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04559 of fuel cell stacks
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04589 of fuel cell stacks
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 8/04649 of fuel cell stacks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/50 Fuel cells

Abstract

A method and system for measuring impedance of a fuel cell stack that can rapidly measure impedance of a plurality of frequencies of the fuel cell stack using a sine wave signal in which a different plurality of frequencies are synthesized as an impedance measurement input signal, for diagnosis of the state of a fuel cell stack includes: synthesizing a plurality of sine wave signals having different frequencies; applying the synthesized signal as an input signal for measuring to the fuel cell stack; measuring a current and a voltage of the fuel cell stack; transforming the measured current and voltage of the fuel cell stack with a predetermined method; and calculating impedance of the fuel cell stack of the different frequencies based on the current and voltage of the fuel cell stack that is transformed with the predetermined method.

Claims

1. A method of measuring impedance for diagnosing a state of a fuel cell stack, the method comprising:

synthesizing a plurality of sine wave signals, each having a different frequency to obtain a synthesized signal;

applying the synthesized signal as an input signal for measuring the fuel cell stack;

measuring a current and a voltage of the fuel cell stack;

transforming the measured current and voltage of the fuel cell stack with a predetermined method; and

calculating impedance of the fuel cell stack for each of the different frequencies based on the current and voltage of the fuel cell stack that is transformed with the predetermined method.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the synthesized signal of the plurality of sine wave signals is a current signal.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein at the transforming of the measured current and voltage, the transformation is Fourier transformation.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the synthesizing of a plurality of sine wave signals comprises generating a current signal of each frequency area by performing Fourier transformation of the synthesized current signal.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the calculating of impedance of the fuel cell stack comprises acquiring impedance of the fuel cell stack of each of the different frequencies by dividing each voltage of a fuel cell in which Fourier transformation is performed by a corresponding current.

6. An impedance measurement system for diagnosing a state of a fuel cell stack, the impedance measurement system comprising:

a signal generator configured to generate a plurality of sine wave signals, each having a different frequency;

a signal synthesizer configured to synthesize the plurality of sine wave signals to obtain a synthesized signal and apply the synthesized signal to the fuel cell stack;

a fuel cell stack current/voltage measurement device configured to measure a current and a voltage of the fuel cell stack by applying the synthesized signal to the fuel cell stack;

a Fourier transformer configured to perform Fourier transformation of the synthesized signal and the current and the voltage of the fuel cell stack that is measured in the fuel cell stack current/voltage measurement device; and

an impedance calculator configured to calculate impedance of the fuel cell stack of each of the different frequencies based on the current and the voltage of the fuel cell stack that is transformed by the Fourier transformer.