Durability test results of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell operated at overnominal temperature with low humidified reactants

Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 0245021-0245024

  Wasterlain, Sébastien ^a,b   Candusso, Denis ^b,c   Harel, Fabien ^b,c   François, Xavier ^d   Péra, Marie Cécile ^a,b   Hissel, Daniel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Techn'Hom   (France)

^c Research

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE BELFORT MONTBÉLIARD   (France)

Author keywords

Durability; Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy; Experimental; Low humidity conditions; PEMFC; Reliability

Indexed keywords

AGING MECHANISM; AGING TIME; DURABILITY TEST; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTRA; EXPERIMENTAL; GAS UTILIZATION; IMPEDANCE SPECTRUM; LONG-TERM EXPERIMENTS; LOW HUMIDITY CONDITIONS; NYQUIST PLOTS; OPERATING CONDITION; PERFLUORINATED IONOMER MEMBRANES; POLARIZATION CURVES; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS; RESPONSE SURFACE; STATIC LOADS; VOLTAGE VARIATION;

DURABILITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; MEMBRANES; MOISTURE; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SOLID SOLUTIONS; STOICHIOMETRY;

ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 77955438289     PISSN: 1550624X     EISSN: 15516989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3182736     Document Type: Article

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