Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance
In this study, a significant number of experimental tests to PEM fuel cells were conducted to investigate the effect of gas flow fields on fuel cell performance. Graphite plates with various flow field or flow channel designs, from literature survey and also novel designs by the authors, were used f...
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| author | Hong eLiu Peiwen eLi Daniel eJuarez-Robles Kai eWang Abel eHernandez-Guerrero |
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| description | In this study, a significant number of experimental tests to PEM fuel cells were conducted to investigate the effect of gas flow fields on fuel cell performance. Graphite plates with various flow field or flow channel designs, from literature survey and also novel designs by the authors, were used for the PEM fuel cell assembly. The fabricated fuel cells all have an effective membrane area of 23.5 cm2. The results showed that the serpentine flow channel design is still favorable, giving the best single fuel cell performance amongst all the studied flow channel designs. A novel symmetric serpentine flow field was proposed for relatively large size fuel cell application. Four fuel cell stacks each including four cells were assembled using different designs of serpentine flow channels. The output power performances of fuel cell stacks were compared and the novel symmetric serpentine flow field design is recommended for its very good performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-354d6083ec594e5093feee89e16fd67b2022-12-21T19:14:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Energy Research2296-598X2014-01-01210.3389/fenrg.2014.0000277429Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performanceHong eLiu0Peiwen eLi1Daniel eJuarez-Robles2Kai eWang3Abel eHernandez-Guerrero4University of ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaIn this study, a significant number of experimental tests to PEM fuel cells were conducted to investigate the effect of gas flow fields on fuel cell performance. Graphite plates with various flow field or flow channel designs, from literature survey and also novel designs by the authors, were used for the PEM fuel cell assembly. The fabricated fuel cells all have an effective membrane area of 23.5 cm2. The results showed that the serpentine flow channel design is still favorable, giving the best single fuel cell performance amongst all the studied flow channel designs. A novel symmetric serpentine flow field was proposed for relatively large size fuel cell application. Four fuel cell stacks each including four cells were assembled using different designs of serpentine flow channels. The output power performances of fuel cell stacks were compared and the novel symmetric serpentine flow field design is recommended for its very good performance.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenrg.2014.00002/fullcomparisonexperimentPEM Fuel cellflow fieldnovel design |
| spellingShingle | Hong eLiu Peiwen eLi Daniel eJuarez-Robles Kai eWang Abel eHernandez-Guerrero Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance Frontiers in Energy Research comparison experiment PEM Fuel cell flow field novel design |
| title | Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| title_full | Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| title_fullStr | Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| title_short | Experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to PEM fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| title_sort | experimental study and comparison of various designs of gas flow fields to pem fuel cells and cell stack performance |
| topic | comparison experiment PEM Fuel cell flow field novel design |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenrg.2014.00002/full |
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