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Application of Fault Tree Analysis to Fuel Cell diagnosis
Author(s) -
Yousfi Steiner N.,
Hissel D.,
Moçotéguy P.,
Candusso D.,
Marra D.,
Pianese C.,
Sorrentino M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
fuel cells
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1615-6854
pISSN - 1615-6846
DOI - 10.1002/fuce.201100072
Subject(s) - fault tree analysis , commercialization , reliability (semiconductor) , fuel cells , reliability engineering , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , engineering , business , power (physics) , physics , marketing , quantum mechanics , chemical engineering
Reliability and lifetime are common issues for the development and commercialization of fuel cells technologies'. As a consequence, their improvement is a major challenge and the last decade has experienced a growing interest in activities that aims at understanding the degradation mechanisms and at developing fuel cell systems diagnosis tools. Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is one of the deductive tools that allow “linking” an undesired state to a combination of lower‐level events via a “top–down” approach which is mainly used in safety and reliability engineering. The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the use and the contribution of FTA to both SOFC and PEFC diagnosis.