Thermal management strategies for a 1 kWe stack of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 465-475

  Harikishan Reddy, E ^a,b   Jayanti, S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Heat removal; High temperature operation; Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells; Temperature mapping; Thermal management

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENERGY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COOLING PLATES; COOLING STRATEGY; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTROCHEMICAL GENERATION; HEAT REMOVAL; HIGH TEMPERATURE PEM; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; STOICHIOMETRIC FACTORS; TEMPERATURE MAPPING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; THERMAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGY; TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; FORCED CONVECTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 84863094217     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.04.041     Document Type: Article

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