Analysis of a fuel cell durability test based on design of experiment approach

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1093-1104

  Wahdame, Bouchra ^a   Candusso, Denis ^b   François, Xavier ^c   Harel, Fabien ^b   Péra, Marie Cécile ^a   Hissel, Daniel ^a   Kauffmann, Jean Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Techn'Hom   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

Design of experiments (DoE); Durability; Fuel cell (FC)

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DURABILITY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTS; FUEL CELLS; FUELS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SOLID OXIDE FUEL CELLS (SOFC); STOICHIOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

AGEING TIMES; AIR STOICHIOMETRIES; CELL POSITIONS; DUAL RESPONSES; DURABILITY TESTS; ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTRUMS; FUEL CELL VOLTAGES; HIGH POWERS; LOAD CURRENTS; LOW VOLTAGES; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATIONS; POLYMER ELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGIES; STATIC MEASUREMENTS; UTILIZATION RATES;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 57749120278     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2008.2001449     Document Type: Article

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