Start-up and steady-state operation of a passive vapor-feed direct methanol fuel cell fed with pure methanol

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 8641-8658

  Bahrami, Hafez ^a   Faghri, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

DMFC; High concentration; Passive; Pure methanol; Transient; Vapor feed

Indexed keywords

ANODE CATALYST LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; LIQUID TRANSPORT; MASS CONSUMPTION; MULTICOMPONENTS; NON-ISOTHERMAL MODELS; PASSIVE; SCALE ANALYSIS; START-UPS; STEADY STATE CHARACTERISTICS; STEADY-STATE OPERATION; VAPOR-FEED; WATER TRANSPORT;

CATALYSTS; CURRENT DENSITY; DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC); METHANOL; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

VAPORS;

EID: 84860373393     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2012.02.038     Document Type: Article

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