The optimal parameters estimation for rectangular cylinders installed transversely in the flow channel of PEMFC from a three-dimensional PEMFC model and the Taguchi method

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4879-4890

  Wu, Horng Wen ^a   Ku, Hui Wen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Optimal parameters estimation; Proton exchange membrane fuel cell; Rectangular cylinders; Taguchi method; Three dimensional PEMFC model

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); ION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); TAGUCHI METHODS;

OPTIMAL PARAMETER; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; RECTANGULAR CYLINDER; TAGUCHI; THREE-DIMENSIONAL PEMFC MODEL;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CYLINDER; DATA SET; ELECTRODE; ESTIMATION METHOD; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; INSTALLATION; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; OXYGEN; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESSURE EFFECT; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80052269509     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.06.034     Document Type: Article

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