Non-isothermal modeling of a small passive direct methanol fuel cell in vertical operation with anode natural convection effect

Energy

Volumn 58, Issue , 2013, Pages 283-295

  Wang, Luwen ^a   Zhang, Yufeng ^a,b   An, Zijian ^a   Huang, Siteng ^a   Zhou, Zhiping ^a   Liu, Xiaowei ^a,b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Anode natural convection; Methanol crossover; Non isothermal; Passive direct methanol fuel cell

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ISOTHERMS; METHANOL; NATURAL CONVECTION;

ELECTROCHEMICAL REACTIONS; METHANOL CONCENTRATION; METHANOL CROSSOVER; NATURAL CONVECTION EFFECTS; NON-ISOTHERMAL MODELS; NONISOTHERMAL; PASSIVE DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES;

DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS (DMFC);

ELECTROCHEMICAL METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUEL CELL; ISOTHERM; METHANOL; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84881111765     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.06.024     Document Type: Article

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