Numerical investigation of liquid water cooling for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack

Heat Transfer Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-167

  Sasmito, Agus P ^a   Birgersson, Erik ^a   Mujumdar, Arun S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATE MODEL; CATALYST LAYERS; COMPUTATIONAL UNITS; CONSERVATION OF MASS; COOLANT TEMPERATURE; COOLING CONDITIONS; COOLING PLATES; COOLING TEMPERATURE; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; INLET VELOCITY; LIMITING CASE; LIQUID WATER; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PEMFC STACK; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL STACKS; SINGLE CELLS; STACK PERFORMANCE; STRONG CORRELATION; THERMAL AND WATER MANAGEMENT; TWO-PHASE MODEL; UNIT CELLS;

COOLANTS; COOLING; CYTOLOGY; LIQUIDS; MEMBRANES; OPTIMIZATION; PROTONS; WATER CONTENT; WATER COOLING SYSTEMS;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 77956900923     PISSN: 01457632     EISSN: 15210537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01457631003769302     Document Type: Conference Paper

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