Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 54, Issue 10, Pages 2899-2911Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2008.11.008
Keywords
PEMFC stack; CFD fuel cell simulation; PEMFC portable device; Stack design; Parallel computing; ES-PEMFC
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [03SF0310A]
- University of South Carolina
- Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
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The objective of this work is to establish the design principles of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell (FC) stack for portable applications. A combination of experiments and numerical Simulations Were carried out and the results analyzed to enhance understanding of the behavior of this portable PEMFC stack. A three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based methodology was used to predict such as the current and temperature distributions of this portable PEMFC stack. The results show how the baseline operation and original design of this stack impact the local temperature, water content, water transport, and kinetic variables inside the individual cells. The outcome of this work will pursue the development of universal heuristics and dimensionless numbers correlated to portable PEMFC stack design. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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