Measurement of the current distribution in a direct methanol fuel cell-Confirmation of parallel galvanic and electrolytic operation within one cell

Journal of Power Sources

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 477-483

  Sauer, Dirk Uwe ^a   Sanders, Tilman ^a   Fricke, Birger ^b   Baumhöfer, Thorsten ^a   Wippermann, Klaus ^c   Kulikovsky, Andrei A ^c   Schmitz, Heinz ^c   Mergel, Jürgen ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FORD WERKE GMBH   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current distribution; DMFC; Galvanic and electrolytic mode; Measurement hardware

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTIC ANALYSIS; GALVANIZING; HYDROGEN; METHANOL FUELS;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROLYTIC MODES; IMPEDANCE SPECTRA; MEASUREMENT HARDWARE;

FUEL CELLS;

EID: 37549024601     PISSN: 03787753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2007.08.056     Document Type: Article

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