RESEARCH PAPER
Fuel Cell System Integration with different Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalytic Materials in Fuel Cell Vehicle using Simulation Tool
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Mechanical Engineering, Chennai Institute of Technology, India
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Mechanical Engineering, Nandha Engineering College, India
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Mechanical Engineering, Sir Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, India
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Mechanical Engineering, Sona College of Technology, India
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Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Sri Krishna College of Engineering, India
These authors had equal contribution to this work
Submission date: 2025-05-05
Final revision date: 2025-06-14
Acceptance date: 2025-07-27
Publication date: 2025-12-29
Corresponding author
Shivakumar Nagareddy
Mechanical Engineering, Chennai Institute of Technology, Kundrathur, 600069, Chennai, India
Mechanical Engineering, Chennai Institute of Technology, Kundrathur, 600069, Chennai, India
The Archives of Automotive Engineering – Archiwum Motoryzacji 2025;110(4):38-72
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ABSTRACT
With the increase of conventional fuels demand, increase in fuel price, battery charging restrictions in electric vehicles during long travel and costlier technologies to implement the current (or) future emission regulations, the hydrogen fuelled fuel cell system plays an important role. In recent fuel cell system, the platinum catalyst material is used for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) which is costlier. The main aim of this research work is to find the low priced and better (or) highly performing oxygen reduction reaction catalyst materials in proton exchange membrane fuel cells. In this study, AMESim simulation tool was used to analyse the fuel cell system with different catalyst materials such as platinum, Fe-N2-C and Ag-alloy (Ag-Cu) for better oxygen oxidation reaction under dynamic conditions using adaptive Jacobian computation method. From the simulation results, the performance of catalyst materials used in the fuel cell system were compared with respect to vehicle performance, powertrain and stack output power, battery state of charge (SoC), compressor efficiency with air mass flow rate, hydrogen fuel efficiency and power/energy distribution. The fuel cell system with Fe-N2-C catalyst material shows nearly the same overall system performance when compare with platinum catalyst material, but the fuel cell system with Al-alloy shows comparatively less overall system performance than platinum and Fe-N2-C catalyst materials used in the fuel cell system. Also, the price of platinum is much expensive than Fe-N2-C material which makes the system costlier. From the simulation results comparison, the fuel cell system with Fe-N2-C catalyst proves better overall performance and cost benefited than Platinum and Ag-alloy catalyst materials.
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