Development of a PEFC with parallel hybrid pattern gas channels (2nd report, performance and flooding under the rib of interdigitated gas channels)

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

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1003-1009

  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 characteristics; Interdigitated flow pattern; Parallel flow pattern; Polymer electrolyte fuel cell; Serpentine flow pattern

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN GASES; FLOODS; FLOW PATTERNS; GASES; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SERPENTINE; SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

FLOW PATTERN DESIGN; GAS CHANNEL PATTERN; INTERDIGITATED FLOW PATTERN; IV CHARACTERISTICS; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; SERPENTINE FLOW PATTERN;

PARALLEL FLOW;

EID: 49149123040     PISSN: 03875016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.74.1003     Document Type: Article

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