Fuel cell system control apparatus, system including the same, and method thereof
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorJae Gwang LEE
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Abstract
An apparatus of controlling a multi-module fuel cell system, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. A first controller individually monitors at least one of an amount of accumulated power or an accumulated driving time of one or more fuel cell stacks and a second controller is configured to control power of each of the one or more, based on the amount of monitored individual accumulated power or the monitored individual accumulated driving time of the one or more fuel cell stacks depending on required power. Stack durability is ensured by controlling distribution of the fuel cell stacks.
Claims20
A fuel cell system control apparatus, comprising:
- a first controller configured to monitor at least one of an amount of accumulated power or an accumulated driving time of a plurality of fuel cell stacks;
- and
- a second controller configured to control power of each of the fuel cell stacks, based on the amount of monitored accumulated power or the monitored accumulated driving time of the plurality of fuel cell stacks depending on required power.
A fuel cell system, comprising:
- a plurality of fuel cell stacks;
- and
- a fuel cell system control apparatus configured to monitor at least one of an amount of accumulated power or an accumulated driving time of the plurality of fuel cell stacks and to control power of each of the fuel cell stacks, based on the amount of monitored accumulated power or the monitored accumulated driving time of the plurality of fuel cell stacks depending on required power.
A fuel cell system control method, comprising:
- monitoring, by a first controller, at least one of an amount of accumulated power or an accumulated driving time of a plurality of fuel cell stacks;
- and
- controlling, by a second controller, power of each of the fuel cell stacks, based on the amount of monitored accumulated power or the monitored accumulated driving time of the plurality of fuel cell stacks depending on required power.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.