Optimizing the DMFC operating conditions using a response surface method

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 218, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 6733-6743

  Silva, Valter Bruno ^a   Rouboa, Abel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Direct methanol fuel cell; Response surface method

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; DIRECT METHANOL; GLOBAL EFFICIENCY; METHANOL CONCENTRATION; METHANOL CROSSOVER; NAFION 117; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATING VARIABLES; POWER DENSITIES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

AIR; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; METHANOL FUELS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

METHANOL;

EID: 84856407802     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2011.12.039     Document Type: Article

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