Robust Lifecycle Design and Health Monitoring for Fuel-Cell Extended Performance (RESILIENCE)

英国承诺到2050年将温室气体排放量减少80%。为了实现这一目标，英国能源行业必须转向提供创新、高质量、高可靠、低排放或零排放的能源。氢和燃料电池已经成为潜在的举措，可以作为替代能源。它们目前正被设计用于一系列应用，包括汽车、固定电源、航空航天和消费电子产品。每种应用都对燃料电池系统提出了自己的一套要求，包括性能、工作范围和成本。随着一项新技术的引入，现有产品高度可靠的市场要求系统性能的这一方面必须符合客户对新产品的期望。这项研究的重点领域旨在通过更好的系统集成和设计优化，以及有效的健康管理来最大限度地延长电源的寿命，从而提高这种新能源的耐用性和可靠性。其成果是一个实时动态和自适应的智能生命周期基础设施，在可靠性、预测学和诊断学的系统设计方面具有尖端研究，并通过多学科方法实现燃料电池产品和环境的语义建模关系，包括数学、信息科学和工程领域。在设计效率和生命周期管理方面的红利都可以实现，将氢气和燃料电池电源置于未来英国能源供应的前沿。

The UK has a commitment to reduce green house gas emissions by 80% by 2050. To achieve this the UK energy sector has to migrate towards supplying innovative, high quality, highly reliable, low or zero emission energy generation sources. Hydrogen and fuel cells have emerged as potential initiatives that could serve as alternative energy sources. They are currently being engineered for a range of applications including automotive, stationary power, aerospace and consumer electronics. Each application presents its own set of requirements for the fuel cell system including performance, operating range and cost. With the introduction of a new technology into markets, where existing products are highly reliable, requires that this aspect of the system performance must match customer expectations which are demanded for a new product. The area of focus of this research aims to improve the durability and reliability of this new energy source by better system integration and design optimisation, coupled with effective health management to maximise the life of the power source. The outcome is a real time dynamic and adaptive intelligent lifecycle infrastructure with leading edge research in system design for reliability, prognostics and diagnostics, and semantically modeling relationships been the product and the environment for fuel cells, achieved through a multidisciplinary approach, including the areas of mathematics, information science and engineering. The dividends both in design efficiencies and lifecycle management can be achieved placing hydrogen and fuel cell power sources at the forefront of future UK energy provision.