US 12,489,127 B2
Method for operating a fuel cell system, and analysis unit for a fuel cell system
Timo Bosch, Renningen (DE); Christopher Bruns, Boeblingen (DE); and Tobias Falkenau, Esslingen (DE)
Assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 18/019,360
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/069990
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/028859, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 209 740.2 (DE), filed on Aug. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0352709 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H01M 8/0444 (2016.01); H01M 8/04089 (2016.01); H01M 8/04223 (2016.01); H01M 8/04746 (2016.01); H01M 8/10 (2016.01)
CPC H01M 8/04462 (2013.01) [H01M 8/04097 (2013.01); H01M 8/04231 (2013.01); H01M 8/04761 (2013.01); H01M 2008/1095 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a fuel cell system with at least one fuel cell which is supplied with hydrogen via an anode path and oxygen via a cathode path, wherein anode exhaust gas exiting the fuel cell is recirculated, but from time to time a part of the anode exhaust gas is introduced into an exhaust gas path, which conducts the cathode exhaust gas, by purging the exhaust gas out of the anode path, and wherein a hydrogen concentration of the exhaust gas is measured in the exhaust gas path using a hydrogen sensor, wherein the hydrogen and/or nitrogen concentration of anode gas in the anode path before the last purge is calculated on the basis of the measured hydrogen concentration, a quantity of gas introduced into the exhaust gas path from the cathode path and from the anode path, and a quantity of hydrogen which is freshly supplied to the anode path.