Development of a PEFC with parallel hybrid pattern gas channels (1st report, design and performance test of the gas channels)

Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, B Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part B

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 995-1002

  Konomi, Toshiaki ^a   Kitahara, Tatsumi ^b   Nakajima, Hironori ^b   Tashiro, Masanori ^b   Takazono, Yasutaka ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Flow pattern design; Gas channel pattern; I V characterstics; Interdigitated flow pattern; Parallel flow pattern; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell; Serpentine flow pattern

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; GASES; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SEPARATORS; SERPENTINE; SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

FLOW PATTERN DESIGN; GAS CHANNEL PATTERN; I-V CHARACTERSTICS; INTERDIGITATED FLOW PATTERN; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SERPENTINE FLOW PATTERN;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 49149100037     PISSN: 03875016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.74.995     Document Type: Article

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