期刊
ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT
卷 213, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2020.112797
关键词
Polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzer; Mass transport; Anode flow channels; Two-phase pressure drop; Operating temperature; Hydrogen
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE) in Distributed Generation for Remote Communities
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Bert Wasmund Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Energy Research
- Hatch Graduate Fellowship for Sustainable Energy Research
- David Sanborn Scott Graduate Fellowship
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- NIST Radiation and Physics Division
- Director's office of NIST
- NIST Center for Neutron Research
In this work, we investigated the impact of temperature on two-phase transport in low temperature (LT)-polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzer anode flow channels via in operando neutron imaging and observed a decrease in mass transport overpotential with increasing temperature. We observed an increase in anode oxygen gas content with increasing temperature, which was counterintuitive to the trends in mass transport overpotential. We attributed this counterintuitive decrease in mass transport overpotential to the enhanced reactant distribution in the flow channels as a result of the temperature increase, determined via a one-dimensional analytical model. We further determined that gas accumulation and fluid property changes are competing temperature-dependent contributors to mass transport overpotential; however, liquid water viscosity changes led to the dominant enhancement of reactant water distributions in the anode. We present this temperaturedependent mass transport overpotential as a great opportunity for further increasing the voltage efficiency of PEM electrolyzers.
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