期刊
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
卷 195, 期 12, 页码 3870-3881出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.11.125
关键词
Lattice Boltzmann method; Water transport; Gas diffusion layer; Wettability; Saturation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50536010]
- Nissan Company
The effect of wettability on water transport dynamics in gas diffusion layer (GDL) is investigated by simulating water invasion in an initially gas-filled GDL using the multiphase free-energy lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The results show that wettability plays a significant role on water saturation distribution in two-phase flow in the uniform wetting GDL For highly hydrophobicity, the water transport falls in the regime of capillary fingering, while for neutral wettability, water transport exhibits the characteristic of stable displacement, although both processes are capillary force dominated flow with same capillary numbers. In addition, the introduction of hydrophilic paths in the GDL leads the water to flow through the hydrophilic pores preferentially. The resulting water saturation distributions show that the saturation in the GDL has little change after water breaks through the GDL, and further confirm that the selective introduction of hydrophilic passages in the GDL would facilitate the removal of liquid water more effect thus alleviating the flooding in catalyst layer (CL) and GDL The LBM approach presented in this study provides an effective tool to investigate water transport phenomenon in the GDL at pore-scale level with wettability distribution taken into consideration. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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