Lifetime prediction through accelerated degradation testing of membrane electrode assemblies in direct methanol fuel cells

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 9166-9176

  Bae, Suk Joo ^a   Kim, Seong Joon ^a   Park, Jong In ^a   Lee, Jin Hwa ^b   Cho, Hyejung ^c   Park, Jun Young ^d  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Samsung SDI   (South Korea)

^c SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^d Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Accelerated degradation test (ADT); Degradation model; Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC); Membrane electrode assembly (MEA); Reliability; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED DEGRADATION TESTS; DEGRADATION MODEL; DIRECT METHANOL; MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY (MEA); WEIBULL;

DEGRADATION; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); METHANOL; METHANOL FUELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956370372     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.06.045     Document Type: Article

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