Nanosized Mo-doped CeO2 enhances the electrocatalytic properties of the Pt anode catalyst in direct methanol fuel cells

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1481-1487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genlei Zhang ◽  
Zhenzhen Yang ◽  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Yuxin Wang

A novel Pt/Ce0.7Mo0.3O2−δ–C electrocatalyst has been developed for methanol oxidation. A direct methanol fuel cell integrating this catalyst as the anode catalyst showed superior power density compared to that with a state-of-the-art commercial Pt/C-JM catalyst.

Micromachines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 658
Author(s):  
Zhu ◽  
Gao ◽  
Li

In order to solve the problem that bolts in traditional packaged direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) take up a large area and reduce the specific energy (energy per unit weight) and power density (power per unit area), a new button-type micro direct methanol fuel cell (B-μDMFC) is designed, assembled, and packaged. The cell with four different structures was tested before and after packaging. The results indicate that the button cell with three-dimensional graphene and springs has the best performance. The equivalent circuit and methanol diffusion model was applied to explain the experimental results. The peak volumetric specific power density of the cell is 11.85 mW cm−3. This is much higher than traditional packaged DMFC, because the novel B-μDMFC eliminates bolts in the structure and improves the effective area ratio of the cell.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (46) ◽  
pp. 19914-19919 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianyu Cao ◽  
Hui Zhuang ◽  
Mengwei Guo ◽  
Hongning Wang ◽  
Juan Xu ◽  
...  

Mesoporous graphenes were synthesized via a template-assisted pyrolysis approach and used as a material for a porous diffusion layer in direct methanol fuel cells.


RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 2314-2322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mochammad Purwanto ◽  
Lukman Atmaja ◽  
Mohamad Azuwa Mohamed ◽  
M. T. Salleh ◽  
Juhana Jaafar ◽  
...  

A composite membrane was fabricated from biopolymer chitosan and montmorillonite (MMT) filler as an alternative membrane electrolyte for direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) application.


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 8659-8663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guicheng Liu ◽  
Meng Wang ◽  
Yituo Wang ◽  
Feng Ye ◽  
Tongtao Wang ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Feng ◽  
Taizo Takeuchi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem ◽  
Takuya Tsujiguchi ◽  
Nobuyoshi Nakagawa

Author(s):  
Nastaran Shakeri ◽  
Zahra Rahmani ◽  
Abolfazl Ranjbar Noei ◽  
Mohammadreza Zamani

Direct methanol fuel cells are one of the most promisingly critical fuel cell technologies for portable applications. Due to the strong dependency between actual operating conditions and electrical power, acquiring an explicit model becomes difficult. In this article, the behavioral model of direct methanol fuel cell is proposed with satisfactory accuracy, using only input/output measurement data. First, using the generated data which are tested on the direct methanol fuel cell, the frequency response of the direct methanol fuel cell is estimated as a primary model in lower accuracy. Then, the norm optimal iterative learning control is used to improve the estimated model of the direct methanol fuel cell with a predictive trial information algorithm. Iterative learning control can be used for controlling systems with imprecise models as it is capable of correcting the input control signal in each trial. The proposed algorithm uses not only the past trial information but also the future trials which are predicted. It is found that better performance, as well as much more convergence speed, can be achieved with the predicted future trials. In addition, applying the norm optimal iterative learning control on the proposed procedure, resulted from the solution of a quadratic optimization problem, leads to the optimal selection of the control inputs. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach by practical data.


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