Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect Materials Today: Proceedings 13 (2019) 889–898 www.materialstoday.com/proceedings 2214-7853 © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Materials and Environmental Science, ICMES 2018. ICMES2018 Modelling operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells - A brief review of current status Z. Hbilate * , Y. Naimi, D. Takky Electrochemistry Team, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Faculty of Sciences Ben Msik, University of Hassan II Casablanca, Morocco, Avenue Cdt Driss Elharti, BP 7955, Casablanca, Morocco Abstract Following the huge industrial development and the requirements and climatic constraints to preserve the environment requires the research of alternatives to replace the fossil energy sources that dominate the world energy production, by cleaner energies is that best meet the need energy and climate change. In this context appeared the Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) as a better solution, and it has had considerable attention thanks to these many advantages. In this review, an appropriate study highlighting the state of art and the stage of development of this technology, an experimental electrochemical and thermodynamic study on the various parameters that affect performance. The results of our work concern the dynamic state characterization and the real performances show that the performance of the PEMFCs depends on the several parameters which makes the optimization of the interactions between these different strongly torque phenomena is important for the good functioning. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the International Conference on Materials and Environmental Science, ICMES 2018. Keywords: Fuel cell; PEMFC; Environment; Hydrogen; water; Heat Introduction The way of life widely adopted in our society, the industrial revolution, the growing demand for energy and the lack that will drive up the skyrocketing cost of fossil fuelsrequire immense energy to be able to meet the need of our society. Actually, most of the world's energy supply comes from fossil (petroleum, coal ...) [1,2]making use of these * Corresponding author. Tel: +212678942844. E-mail address: Z.hbilate@gmail.com