The New Hydrogen Fuel Cell Controller

Intelligent Energy and Prodrive has developed a new production of hydrogen fuel cell controller,this unit called PP150 and is being used to control a 50 kW fuel cell system developed by Intelligent Energy. For the UK fuel cell industry this is the first.

One of the project’s aims was to ensure that the fuel cell could be started at sub-zero temperatures. To meet these demands, the control electronics went through a number of design iterations. Initial development was carried out using Prodrive’s rapid prototyping ECU, UP200 which provides a robust, off the shelf hardware platform with built in Simulink® compatibility. This enabled Intelligent Energy to quickly develop their core algorithms and validate them on real world hardware. Following this initial stage Prodrive developed a prototype ECU known as the DP200 which included bespoke hardware for the fuel cell application but retained sufficient flexibility to support development changes.
The price is around £250 per unit .

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