EFFECT OF HUMIDITY ON PEM FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE PART I - EXPERIMENTS

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 1999-O, Issue , 1999, Pages 359-366

  Lee, W K ^a   Van Zee, J W ^a   Shimpalee, S ^a   Dutta, S ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ENGINES; CELL ENGINEERING; ELECTRODES; GAS TURBINES; HEAT TRANSFER; POLYELECTROLYTES; SERPENTINE;

'CURRENT; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; FIXED VOLTAGE; FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE; INLET HUMIDITY; LOW CURRENTS; PERFORMANCE; WATERS MANAGEMENTS;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 79956071977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE1999-1005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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