Carl-Johan Sjöstedt & De-Jiu Chen, KTH, Stockholm; Peter Prenninger, AVL List GmbH, Graz; Ian Faye, Robert Bosch GmbH, Gerlingen; Th. Hülshorst, FEV Motorentechnik GmbH, Aachen; Ashley Kells, Intelligent Energy Ltd, London; Ian Harkness, Johnson Matthey plc, Reading; Carsten Schönfelder, VKA RWTH Aachen, Aachen.
Fuel Cell Forum Luzern, 04.07.2005 - 08.07.2005
The successful introduction of fuel cell systems for future generation automotive applications will significantly depend on the development and realization of reliable low cost components, which have to be highly integrated in the fuel cell system. Hence, in the course of the project NFCCPP (Numerical Fuel Cell Component Performance Prediction tool) funded by the European Union, a simulation environment has been worked out and a modular component tool box created, which allows the - virtual - testing of components of fuel cell systems in a highly realistic, most advanced and precise, but nevertheless confidential simulation environment. Confidentiality - in fact model protection - enables the combination of best state of the art simulation modules from different partners in an overall system simulation model without having access to confidential information and data of other individual components. Even competitors can test their components together in such an environment. Moreover, this approach enables investigations based on overall system simulations (or a fixed set thereof), which have the advantage of providing a sound reference for comparing results.