Improvement of proton exchange membrane fuel cell overall efficiency by integrating heat-to-electricity conversion

Journal of Power Sources

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 433-441

  Xie, Chungang ^a   Wang, Shuxin ^a   Zhang, Lianhong ^a   Hu, S Jack ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed power generation; Exergy analysis; Overall efficiency; PEMFC; Thermal energy conversion (TEC)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTRICITY GENERATIONS; ELECTRO-CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ENERGY FLOWS; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; EXERGY ANALYSIS; HEATING APPLICATIONS; LOAD RANGES; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PEMFC;

CELL MEMBRANES; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; EXERGY; ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; MEMBRANES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION; OCEANOGRAPHY; POWER TRANSMISSION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); PROTONS; THERMAL ENERGY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 65649090675     PISSN: 03787753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2009.02.048     Document Type: Article

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