Provided is a reducing gas detection sensor which has sensitivity improved as compared to that of the related art, and in which power consumption is decreased. The reducing gas detection sensor includes: a reducing gas detection material including a palladium compound and a carbon compound, and having reactivity with a reducing gas; and a unit configured to measure a conductivity of the reducing gas detection material.

A fuel cell system includes first and second tanks, first and second pipes, a pipe, a first valve, a second valve, a pressure sensor, and circuitry. The first pipe is connected to the first tank. The second pipe is connected to the second tank. The pipe is connected to a fuel cell and connected to the first and second pipes to supply a reaction gas from the first and second tanks to the fuel cell. The first valve is provided at the first pipe. The second valve is provided at the second pipe. The pressure sensor is provided at the pipe between the joint point and the fuel cell. The circuitry determines whether a failure occurs in at least one of the first and second valves based on a change in the pressure detected by the pressure sensor while the first and second valves are controlled.

A fuel cell system includes a battery, a fuel cell, an air pump, and a processor. The battery stores electric power. The fuel cell supplies electric power to the battery. The air pump is driven with the electric power supplied from the battery to supply air to the fuel cell. The processor, when starting the fuel cell system, is configured to compare an amount of the electric power stored in the battery with a threshold electric power. If the amount of the electric power is higher than or equal to the threshold electric power, the air pump is driven. If the amount of the electric power is lower than the threshold electric power, the air pump is prohibited to drive.

In one aspect, disclosed are a hydrogen leak sensing device and method for a fuel cell vehicle. The device comprises a processor configured to control a valve of a hydrogen tank, wherein the processor may calculate a state of fuel (SOF) of the hydrogen tank when the valve is closed and a SOF of the hydrogen tank when the valve is opened, and determine whether hydrogen leak has occurred based on the calculated SOFs.

A method for diagnosing valve failure of a fuel cell system is proposed. The method comprises determining failure diagnosis target pressure from atmospheric pressure that is a real-time sensing value of an atmospheric sensor by means of a controller, controlling opening of a fuel supply valve installed in a hydrogen supply line such that stack anode-side pressure reaches the determined failure diagnosis target pressure by means of the controller, performing control for opening an integrated discharge valve installed at a water trap when the stack anode-side pressure reaches the failure diagnosis target pressure, counting a time passed after the opening, and determining whether the integrated discharge valve fails based on the time, the stack anode-side pressure, and the atmospheric pressure.

According to an embodiment, a power supply control system includes a plurality of fuel cell systems mounted in an electric device that operates using electric power, a first controller configured to control the plurality of fuel cell systems in an integrated way, and a second controller configured to control the fuel cell system to which the second controller belongs among the plurality of fuel cell systems. The second controller acquires a state of the fuel cell system to which the second controller belongs and notifies the first controller of the state of the fuel cell system. The first controller controls power generation of each of the plurality of fuel cell systems on the basis of the state of the fuel cell system to which the second controller belongs acquired by the second controller.

A power generation system includes: a combustor operative to combust a fuel; a power generator operative to utilize energy obtained from the combustor when generating electric power; a fuel supplier operative to supply the fuel to the combustor; an air supplier operative to supply combustion air to the combustor; a discharged gas passage through which a discharged gas from the combustor flows; a CO detector operative to detect CO in the discharged gas; a temperature detector operative to detect a temperature of the discharged gas; and control circuitry operative to, when the discharged gas is flowing through the discharged gas passage, perform at least one of an operation of detecting a structural abnormality of the discharged gas passage based on a difference between detected temperatures of the temperature detector relative to a difference between heated amounts of the discharged gas heated by a heater and an operation of detecting the structural abnormality of the discharged gas passage based on the difference between the detected temperatures of the temperature detector relative to a difference between outputs of at least one of the fuel supplier and the air supplier.

A fuel cell hydrogen supply fault diagnosis system is provided. The system includes multiple fuel tanks that store hydrogen therein to supply the hydrogen and a fuel tank valve disposed at each of the fuel tanks and configured to be opened or closed to supply or shut off the hydrogen of the fuel tanks. A pressure sensor measures pressure in a fuel supply line that extends from each of the multiple fuel tanks to be integrally connected to a fuel cell stack. A supply amount estimator then estimates a supply amount of hydrogen supplied to the fuel cell stack and a consumption amount estimator estimates a consumption amount of hydrogen consumed in a reaction in the fuel cell stack or discharged therefrom. A fault detector then detects a hydrogen supply state.

A fuel cell system is provided. The system includes a fuel cell stack, a plurality of valves operated to be selectively opened or closed to supply fuel to the fuel cell stack and remove impurities, and a pressure sensor that detects a state of pressure of fuel supplied to the fuel cell stack. A fuel cell controller then determines whether the pressure sensor or the plurality of valves are faulty by comparing increase or decrease time of the pressure detected by the pressure sensor with a reference range of time delay, as the plurality of valves are operated to be opened or closed.

A device for detecting a current leakage and a current leakage detection system including the same are provided. The device for detecting a current leakage includes a magnetic core having an internal space and both ends the core are separated from each other. An electric wiring extends to pass through the internal space of the magnetic core, and is connected between a power source and an electric load to supply power from the power source to the electric load. A hall sensor senses a magnetic field induced in the magnetic core.