Effect of channel materials on the behavior of water droplet emerging from GDL into PEMFC gas channels

ECS Transactions

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 503-512

  Gopalan, Preethi ^a   Kandlikar, Satish G ^a  

^a Rochester Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; CONTACT ANGLE; DROPS; GASES; LIQUIDS; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS; CHANNEL MATERIALS; CONTACT ANGLE HYSTERESIS; DROPLET DETACHMENT; DYNAMIC CONTACT ANGLE; GRAPHITE COMPOSITES; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL (PEMFCS); WATER ACCUMULATION;

SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

EID: 84885348676     PISSN: 19385862     EISSN: 19386737     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1149/05002.0503ecst     Document Type: Conference Paper

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