Recent advances in passive and semi-passive direct methanol fuel cells

International Journal of Thermal Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-18

  Faghri, Amir ^a   Li, Xianglin ^a   Bahrami, Hafez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

DMFC; Experiment; Modeling; Portable power; Prototype

Indexed keywords

FUEL SUPPLY; HIGH CONCENTRATION; METHANOL CROSSOVER; NUMERICAL STUDIES; PORTABLE POWER; PROTOTYPE;

EXPERIMENTS; METHANOL; MODELS;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC);

EID: 84867702051     PISSN: 12900729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2011.09.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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