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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 154, Issue 4, Pages B419-B426Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/1.2472547
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A full morphology (FM) model has been developed for studying the two-phase characteristics of the gas diffusion medium in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC). The three-dimensional (3D) fibrous microstructure for the nonwoven gas diffusion layer (GDL) microstructure has been reconstructed using a stochastic technique for Toray090 and SGL10BA carbon papers. The FM model directly solves for the capillary pressure-saturation relations on the detailed morphology of the reconstructed GDL from drainage simulations. The estimated capillary pressure-saturation curves can be used as valuable inputs to macroscopic two-phase models. Additionally, 3D visualization of the water distribution in the gas diffusion medium suggests that only a small number of pores are occupied by liquid water at breakthrough. Based on a reduced compression model, the two-phase behavior of the GDL under mechanical load is also investigated and the capillary pressure-saturation relations are evaluated for different compression levels. (c) 2007 The Electrochemical Society.
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