Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 190, Issue 2, Pages 223-229Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.01.055
Keywords
Alkaline direct ethanol fuel cell; Anion-conducting ionomer; Polymer binder; Non-platinum catalyst
Funding
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [622807]
- Joint Research Fund for Hong Kong and Macao Young Scholars [50629601]
- Acta and Tokuyama
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In preparing low-temperature fuel cell electrodes, a polymer binder is essential to bind discrete catalyst particles to form a porous catalyst layer that simultaneously facilitates the transfer of ions, electrons, and reactants/products. For two types of polymer binder, namely, an A3-an anion conducting ionomer and a PTFE-a neutral polymer, an investigation is made of the effect of the content of each binder in the anode catalyst layer on the performance of an alkaline direct ethanol fuel cell (DEFC) with an anion-exchange membrane and non-platinum (non-Pt) catalysts. Experiments are performed by feeding either ethanol (C2H5OH) solution or ethanol-potassium hydroxide (C2H5OH-KOH) Solution. The experimental results for the case of feeding C2H5OH Solution without added KOH indicate that the cell performance varies with the A3 ionomer content in the anode catalyst layer, and a content of 10wt.% exhibits the best performance. When feeding C2H5OH-KOH solution, the results show that: (i) in the region of low current density, the best performance is achieved for a membrane electrode assembly without any binder in the anode catalyst layer: (ii) in the region of high current density, the performance is improved with incorporation of PTFE binder in the anode catalyst layer: (iii) the PTFE binder yields better performance than does the A3 binder. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,
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