Patent ID: 11955673
Assignee: THE FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A system for monitoring degradation of a fuel cell membrane in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, the system comprising:
a first microsensor disposed inline with a first exhaust of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell, the first microsensor configured for sensing a first analyte that is fluorine or sulfate;
a processor in operable communication with the first microsensor; and
a machine-readable medium in operable communication with the processor and the first microsensor, and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, perform the following steps:
monitoring first sensing data of the first microsensor, the first sensing data comprising a level of the first analyte present in the first exhaust of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell; and
performing a deep learning algorithm on the first sensing data to enable predictive maintenance on the fuel cell membrane of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell.