scholarly journals Experimental and thermodynamic investigation of a triangular channel geometry PEM fuel cell at different operating conditions

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 585-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Khazaee ◽  
M. Ghazikhani ◽  
M. Mohammadiun
Author(s):  
M. Minutillo ◽  
E. Jannelli ◽  
F. Tunzio

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell generator operating for residential applications. The fuel cell performance has been evaluated using the test bed of the University of Cassino. The experimental activity has been focused to evaluate the performance in different operating conditions: stack temperature, feeding mode, and fuel composition. In order to use PEM fuel cell technology on a large scale, for an electric power distributed generation, it could be necessary to feed fuel cells with conventional fuel, such as natural gas, to generate hydrogen in situ because currently the infrastructure for the distribution of hydrogen is almost nonexistent. Therefore, the fuel cell performance has been evaluated both using pure hydrogen and reformate gas produced by a natural gas reforming system.


2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Perna

The purpose of this work is to investigate, by a thermodynamic analysis, the effects of the process variables on the performance of an autothermal reforming (ATR)-based fuel processor, operating on ethanol as fuel, integrated into an overall proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell system. This analysis has been carried out finding the better operating conditions to maximize hydrogen yield and to minimize CO carbon monoxide production. In order to evaluate the overall efficiency of the system, PEM fuel cell operations have been analyzed by an available parametric model.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (35) ◽  
pp. 275-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seng Kian Cheah ◽  
Olivier Lemaire ◽  
Patrick Gélin ◽  
Alejandro A. Franco

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 7736-7744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar Gerteisen ◽  
Nada Zamel ◽  
Christian Sadeler ◽  
Florian Geiger ◽  
Victor Ludwig ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jer-Huan Jang ◽  
Han-Chieh Chiu ◽  
Wei-Mon Yan ◽  
Wei-Lian Sun

Author(s):  
Vernon Webb ◽  
Michael Hickner ◽  
Donald Baird ◽  
Scott Case ◽  
John Lesko

The electrical and mechanical properties of new lightweight graphite polymeric separator plates aged in a PEM fuel cell were investigated to assess their resistance to short-term durability. While the changes in electrical properties of great interest to the operation of the fuel cell, mechanical and dimensional stability over the life of the cell are critical. Thus, new polymeric based separator plates developed at Virginia Tech were aged under standard operating conditions in a PEM fuel cell over 300 hours at low pressure and 85°C. A comparison of conductivity, stiffness and strength of aged plates was made to as manufactured and unaged plates. Over the aging period, electrical conductivity did not decline even as the fuel cell performance showed some changes as evidenced by polarization curves. However, the mechanical strength of the monopolar plates was observed to declined less than 10% after 300 hours of fuel cell operation, due to the lack of stability of the polyester resin used to facilitate the rapid manufacturing of these new plates. These property changes were found to be independent of aging on the reduction and oxidation sides. Further work continues on plates formed through both fiber wet lay technology and those produced by compression molding of unique graphite filled epoxy systems, and to improve the electrochemical performance of cells fabricated using the resulting plates to levels comparable to those observed when using existing plate materials.


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