Cold start characteristics of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 11832-11845

  Jiao, Kui ^a   Alaefour, Ibrahim E ^a   Karimi, Gholamreza ^a,b   Li, Xianguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cold start; Current and temperature distributions; Ice formation; In situ experiments; Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)

Indexed keywords

CATHODE CATALYST LAYERS; CATHODE FLOW; CATHODE FLOW FIELDS; COLD START; CONSTANT CURRENT; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; FLOW ARRANGEMENTS; FLOW CHANNELS; GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS; HEAT GENERATION RATE; HIGH PRESSURE; ICE FORMATION; ICE FORMATIONS; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; LOAD CONDITION; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; START-UPS;

CATHODES; CHANNEL FLOW; DIFFUSION IN GASES; EXPERIMENTS; ICE; PROTONS; REACTION RATES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 80052143972     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.05.101     Document Type: Article

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