Development of a PEFC with serpentine hybrid pattern gas channels (2nd report, effects of the flow velocity in a low pressure channel)

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

Volumn 75, Issue 752, 2009, Pages 577-584

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

AIR; DIFFUSION IN GASES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VELOCITY; FUEL CELLS; GASES; PARALLEL FLOW; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SERPENTINE; SILICATE MINERALS; VELOCITY;

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

SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 67650608251     PISSN: 03875016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.75.752_577     Document Type: Article

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