Surveillance Ship with Fuel Cell Performance Analysis and Design

The main content of this paper is to design and fabricate a type of surveillance ship with a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), which adopts hydrogen as fuel cell to generate electricity to drive the surveillance ship. This ship has devices of reconnaissance, lighting, shooting. The reconnaissance device could return real-time images to the command center via cloud technique which could understand the current situation of the reconnaissance location. A buoyancy device is designed into the hull to enhance the stability of running. This paper starts from the functional design and system evaluation, then conducts the fabrication and assembly of the surveillance ship, and finally makes the electric integration and the tests of the PEMFC, surveillance ship running, and hydrogen consumption. The results of the research shows the developed surveillance ship has the advantages of low pollution, clean energy, no effect of day and night, and could be driven via only a small amount of hydrogen, which meets the trend of environmental protection and has the potential of applications in the future.