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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 38, Issue 25, Pages 10602-10606Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2013.06.042
Keywords
Fuel cell; Direct ethylene glycol fuel cell; Ethylene glycol; Alkali-doped polybenzimidazole membrane
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- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [HKUST9/CRF/11G]
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An alkaline direct ethylene glycol fuel cell (DEGFC) with an alkali-doped polybenzimidazole membrane (APM) is developed and tested. It is demonstrated that the use of APMs enables the present fuel cell to operate at high temperatures. The fuel cell results in the peak power densities of 80 mW cm(-2) at 60 degrees C and 112 mW cm(-2) at 90 degrees C, respectively. The power output at 60 degrees C is found to be 67% higher than that by DEGFCs with proton exchange membranes, which is mainly attributed to the superior electrochemical kinetics of both ethylene glycol oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions in alkaline media. Copyright (C) 2013, Hydrogen Energy Publications, LLC. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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