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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 168, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abdc60
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21776226]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFB0102702]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2019-JL-016, 2019-YB-017]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201906950062]
- Hubei-100 Plan of China
- Chinesisch-Deutsche Zentrum fur Wissenschaftsforderung [M-0070]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [EXC 2163/1, 390881007]
An improved stochastic reconstruction method has been developed for the gas diffusion layer (GDL) of proton exchange membrane fuel cell to enhance the accuracy in evaluating effective gas diffusivity. Carbon fibers are generated using a stochastic algorithm, and constraints such as structural characteristics, porosity distribution, and fiber orientation distribution are set in the microstructure reconstruction. The pore-scale simulations show that the reconstructed GDL with binder and PTFE results in a significant decrease in effective gas diffusivity.
An improved stochastic reconstruction method for a gas diffusion layer (GDL) of proton exchange membrane fuel cell is developed to promote the accuracy in evaluating effective gas diffusivity. Carbon fibers are generated using stochastic algorithm within a representative element volume. Structural characteristics, porosity distribution and fiber orientation distribution are set as constraints in reconstructing the microstructure. Morphological opening of image processing with structuring element is employed to add binder and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), with disk and sphere binder configurations. Pore-scale simulations are subsequently carried out to compute the anisotropic, effective gas diffusivities of these reconstructed GDLs. Simulation results show that the reconstructed GDL with binder and PTFE produces significant decrease of the effective gas diffusivity. The disk-shape binder appears to match the real GDL geometry visually, and the predicted effective gas diffusivity is also in good agreement with the reported experimental data in the literature. This demonstrates the importance of binder and PTFE in GDL reconstruction. Moreover, the correlations of the effective diffusivities in the through-plane and in-plane directions as functions of porosity and volume fraction of binder and PTFE are determined for the reconstructed GDLs. (C) 2021 The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Published on behalf of ECS by IOP Publishing Limited.
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