WU Haojian1, 2, 3, WANG Yuning1, 3, WANG Kelong1, 3, TIAN Shaopeng1, 2, 3
The fourth-order fuel cell air system model was established in Simulink, which included voltage model, air compressor model, cathode model and supply manifold model. PID, fuzzy PID and sliding mode controllers were designed to control the voltage of the air compressor, so that the system could track the optimal oxygen excess ratio in time when the load current of the fuel cell was changed. The simulation results show that when the load current changes abruptly, for the reasonable output air compressor voltage ,the sliding mode control shortens the oxygen excess ratio adjustment time by about 1.5 s compared with PID and fuzzy PID control, and the optimal oxygen excess ratio can be reached faster with better control effect, while the net output power of the system can be kept above 17 kW.