The effect of porosity on performance of phosphoric acid doped polybenzimidazole polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell
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2016
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E D P Sciences
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A polybenzimidazole (PBI) based polymer electrolyte fuel cells, which called high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells (HT-PEMS), operate at higher temperatures (120-200 degrees C) than conventional PEM fuel cells. Although it is known that HT-PEMS have some of the significant advantages as non-humidification requirements for membrane and the lack of liquid water at high temperature in the fuel cell, the generated water as a result of oxygen reduction reaction causes in the degradation of these systems. The generated water absorbed into membrane side interacts with the hydrophilic PBI matrix and it can cause swelling of membrane, so water transport mechanism in a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) needs to be well understood and water balance must be calculated in MEA. Therefore, the water diffusion transport across the electrolyte should be determined. In this study, various porosity values of gas diffusion layers are considered in order to investigate the effects of porosity on the water management for two phase flow in fuel cell. Two-dimensional fuel cell with interdigitated flow-field is modelled using COMSOL Multiphysics 4.2a software. The operating temperature and doping level is selected as 160 degrees C and 6.75mol H3PO4/PBI, respectively.
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10th Anniversary International Conference on Experimental Fluid Mechanics -- NOV 17-20, 2015 -- Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
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EFM15 - Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2015
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