Parametric investigation to enhance the performance of a PBI-based high-temperature PEMFC

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 78, Issue , 2014, Pages 431-437

  Ferng, Y M ^a   Su, A ^b   Hou, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acid doping level; Cell performance; Electrode thickness and porosity; High temperature PBI based PEMFC; PBI loading

Indexed keywords

ACID DOPING; CELL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRODE THICKNESS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-TEMPERATURE PEMFC; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PARAMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL;

EXPERIMENTS; HEATING; POROSITY; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE;

LOADING;

EID: 84888863066     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2013.10.069     Document Type: Article

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