Start/stop induced carbon corrosion in polymer electrolyte fuel cells

ASME 2010 8th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, FUELCELL 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 357-362

  Linse, Nicolas ^a   Scherer, Günther G ^a   Wokaun, Alexander ^a   Gubler, Lorenz ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPLICATION-ORIENTED; CARBON CORROSION; DEGRADATION DATA; FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE; INDUCED DEGRADATION; LINEAR CORRELATION; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PLATINUM SURFACE; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE FUEL CELLS; POTENTIAL PULSE; RELATIVE WATER CONTENT; STABLE OXIDES; START-UPS; VAPOR PARTIAL PRESSURE; VOLTAGE LIMITS;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUEL CELLS; HYDROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); PLATINUM; POLYELECTROLYTES;

CORROSION RATE;

EID: 84859977816     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FuelCell2010-33190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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