Fabrication and performance evaluation for a novel small planar passive direct methanol fuel cell stack

Fuel

Volumn 94, Issue , 2012, Pages 401-408

  Feng, Ligang ^a   Cai, Weiwei ^a   Li, Chenyang ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Liu, Changpeng ^a   Xing, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Energy conversion efficiency; Long term operation; Passive direct methanol fuel cell; Performance degradation; Power density

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT VOLTAGE; DIRECT METHANOL; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELL STACKS; FARADIC EFFICIENCY; FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE DEGRADATIONS; LARGE CURRENT; LONG-TERM OPERATION; METHANOL CROSSOVER; OPERATING PERFORMANCE; OPERATING TIME; PASSIVE DMFC; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PORTABLE APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POWER DENSITIES; PRODUCED WATER; SUPER CAPACITOR;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DEGRADATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC);

EID: 84856707546     PISSN: 00162361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2011.11.044     Document Type: Article

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