Development of flow field design of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell using in-situ impedance spectroscopy

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 9799-9804

  Kwon, Oh Joong ^a   Kang, Moo Seong ^b   Ahn, Sang Hyun ^c   Choi, Insoo ^c   Lee, Kang Uk ^c   Jeong, Jee Hoon ^b   Han, In Su ^b   Yang, Jae Chun ^b   Kim, Jae Jeong ^c  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^b GS Caltex Corporation   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamic simulation; Heterogeneous stack; In situ three channel impedance method; Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

Indexed keywords

CFD SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW FIELD CHANNELS; FLOW-FIELD DESIGN; FUEL CELL STACK; HETEROGENEOUS STACK; IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; IN-SITU; IN-SITU THREE-CHANNEL IMPEDANCE METHOD; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; FLOW FIELDS; POLYELECTROLYTES; POLYMERS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79960911342     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.10.040     Document Type: Article

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