This paper is a novel attempt to combine two important aspects of fuel cell (FC). First, it presents investigations on FC technology and its applications. A description of FC operating principles is followed by the comparative analysis of the present FC technologies together with the issues concerning various fuels. Second, this paper also proposes a model for the simulation and performances evaluation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) generation system. Furthermore, a MATLAB/Simulink-based dynamic model of PEMFC is developed and parameters of FC are so adjusted to emulate a commercially available PEMFC. The system results are obtained for the PEMFC-driven adjusted speed induction motor drive (ASIMD) system, normally used in electric vehicles and analysis is carried out for different operating conditions of FC and ASIMD system. The obtained results prove the validation of system concept and modelling.

In this paper, the operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems is introduced by modeling of reactant flow pressure control schemes. Proportional-Integral, Fuzzy logic and Artificial neural network-based schemes are proposed to control the hydrogen and oxygen flow pressure. A MATLAB/Simulink model is developed for the proton exchange membrane fuel cell power generation system by combining the designed controllers. The system performance is tested under different operating conditions for each controller-assisted proton exchange membrane fuel cell and found to be satisfactory. Furthermore, a comparative study is made in terms of controller response and the fuel consumption.