Patents by Inventor Pucheng PEI

Pucheng PEI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11933858
    Abstract: Provided is a method for simultaneous detection of parameters of membrane electrode assemblies of a fuel cell stack, which includes: supplying hydrogen to an anode of the fuel cell stack and inert gas to a cathode of the fuel cell stack, controlling operating conditions of the fuel cell stack at respective preset values; applying different voltage excitations or micro-current excitations to the fuel cell stack, collecting a current signal of an entire stack and a voltage signal of each fuel cell; and analyzing a hydrogen crossover current, a catalyst electrochemical surface area, a double-layer capacitance, and a short-circuit resistance of a membrane electrode assembly of each fuel cell based on an excitation-response formula of a fuel cell. The present disclosure does not limit a form of a current or voltage excitation, thereby improving accuracy of a parameter test of a membrane electrode assembly while reducing the test cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Pucheng Pei, Peng Ren, Dongfang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220244319
    Abstract: Provided is a method for simultaneous detection of parameters of membrane electrode assemblies of a fuel cell stack, which includes: supplying hydrogen to an anode of the fuel cell stack and inert gas to a cathode of the fuel cell stack, controlling operating conditions of the fuel cell stack at respective preset values; applying different voltage excitations or micro-current excitations to the fuel cell stack, collecting a current signal of an entire stack and a voltage signal of each fuel cell; and analyzing a hydrogen crossover current, a catalyst electrochemical surface area, a double-layer capacitance, and a short-circuit resistance of a membrane electrode assembly of each fuel cell based on an excitation-response formula of a fuel cell. The present disclosure does not limit a form of a current or voltage excitation, thereby improving accuracy of a parameter test of a membrane electrode assembly while reducing the test cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Pucheng PEI, Peng REN, Dongfang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210320312
    Abstract: Provided are method and device for predicting service life and remaining life of a fuel cell. The method includes: activating the fuel cell, obtaining an initial polarization curve of the fuel cell, and selecting a first point having a first current in the initial polarization curve; determining a life end point of the fuel cell according to the initial polarization curve and a decay ratio; obtaining a current polarization curve, and determining a second point having a second current and a same voltage as the first point in the current polarization curve; and determining the service life of the fuel cell according to the first current, the second current, a current relationship between two polarization curves and a service life algorithm of the fuel cell, and obtaining the remaining life of the fuel cell according to the service life and a time of the current polarization curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Pucheng PEI, Bozheng WANG, Dongfang CHEN, Shangwei HUANG, Peng REN
  • Patent number: 11050070
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus controlling a water flooding failure in a fuel cell dual-stack system. The method includes: acquiring a hydrogen pressure drop reference value of the stack system in each normal working condition to obtain a control value; collecting a current pressure drop at a hydrogen side, and determining whether the current pressure drop at the hydrogen side is higher than the control value corresponding to a current normal working condition; determining a faulted stack according to voltages or currents of the first stack and the second stack if the current pressure drop at the hydrogen side is higher than the control value corresponding to the current normal working condition; reducing an opening degree of a flow regulating valve of the faulted stack, and increasing an opening degree of a flow regulating valve of the other stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Pucheng Pei, Peng Ren, Yuehua Li, Ziyao Wu, Dongfang Chen, Shangwei Huang, Xiaoning Jia
  • Publication number: 20200403254
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for forecasting the service life and remaining life of a fuel cell. The method comprises: determining an end of life on the basis of the attenuation percentage of the current or power of a fuel cell at a constant voltage, completing the activation of the fuel cell, measuring a first polarization curve of the fuel cell; when the fuel cell runs for a preset time, measuring the second polarization curve of the fuel cell; acquiring the voltage attenuation rate or a current attenuation time constant of the fuel cell, and acquiring the service life and remaining life of the fuel cell via a forecasting formula.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Pucheng PEI, Xiaoning JIA, Dongfang CHEN, Ziyao WU, Peng REN, Shangwei HUANG
  • Publication number: 20190229355
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus controlling a water flooding failure in a fuel cell dual-stack system. The method includes: acquiring a hydrogen pressure drop reference value of the stack system in each normal working condition to obtain a control value; collecting a current pressure drop at a hydrogen side, and determining whether the current pressure drop at the hydrogen side is higher than the control value corresponding to a current normal working condition; determining a faulted stack according to voltages or currents of the first stack and the second stack if the current pressure drop at the hydrogen side is higher than the control value corresponding to the current normal working condition; reducing an opening degree of a flow regulating valve of the faulted stack, and increasing an opening degree of a flow regulating valve of the other stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Pucheng PEI, Peng REN, Yuehua LI, Ziyao WU, Dongfang CHEN, Shangwei HUANG, Xiaoning JIA
  • Patent number: 9991536
    Abstract: The Invention discloses a self-supplied hydrogen fuel cell system and a working method thereof, the system comprising a diesel tank, a gas separator, a fuel cell, a low-temperature separation reactor, a high-temperature separation reactor, an auto-thermal reformer, a water tank and a catalytic burner; With the high-temperature separation reactor, the low-temperature separation reactor and the auto-thermal reformer, diesel is cracked into H2 and CO; as the fuel for the fuel cell, H2 may react with O2 in the air and generate electric energy; the unreacted H2 and CO enter into the catalytic burner for combustion, ensuring that the water is heated; thus, it not only provides H2 to the fuel cell, but also provides high-temperature water to the auto-thermal converter to produce H2; electric energy can be generated without burning diesel; since no NOx or particulate matters but CO2 is generated, the goal of ultra-low emission is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture
    Inventors: Yongfeng Liu, Hongbing Chen, Jianjun Qin, Pucheng Pei, Shengzhuo Yao
  • Publication number: 20170084943
    Abstract: The Invention discloses a self-supplied hydrogen fuel cell system and a working method thereof, the system comprising a diesel tank, a gas separator, a fuel cell, a low-temperature separation reactor, a high-temperature separation reactor, an auto-thermal reformer, a water tank and a catalytic burner; With the high-temperature separation reactor, the low-temperature separation reactor and the auto-thermal reformer, diesel is cracked into H2 and CO; as the fuel for the fuel cell, H2 may react with O2 in the air and generate electric energy; the unreacted H2 and CO enter into the catalytic burner for combustion, ensuring that the water is heated; thus, it not only provides H2 to the fuel cell, but also provides high-temperature water to the auto-thermal converter to produce H2; electric energy can be generated without burning diesel; since no NOx or particulate matters but CO2 is generated, the goal of ultra-low emission is achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yongfeng Liu, Hongbing Chen, Jianjun Qin, Pucheng Pei, Shengzhuo Yao
  • Publication number: 20150219728
    Abstract: A method and a device for measuring various parameters of a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) in a fuel cell. Hydrogen gas and nitrogen gas or air are supplied to the fuel cell to be tested. A voltage of the fuel cell is diminished by connecting to a load until the voltage is zero. The fuel cell is charged at a constant current. A constant current value is measured by a current sensor. A current signal and a voltage signal are collected by a data collector and are converted into digital quantity signals which are transmitted to a data processing unit. Data are automatically processed by programming of the data processing unit. Parameters, including an electrochemical active surface area of a catalyst, a double-layer capacitance, a hydrogen crossover current, and an impedance of the MEA of the fuel cell are acquired by differentiation and integral operations of the voltage data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Pucheng PEI, Huachi XU, Hongshan ZHA