Thermal management of an air-cooled PEM fuel cell: Cell level simulation

ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 453-459

  Tadbir, M Andisheh ^a   Shahsavari, S ^a   Bahrami, M ^a   Kjeang, E ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air cooling; Numerical simulation; PEM fuel cell; Temperature map

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; HEAT SINKS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

AIR COOLING; BALLARD POWER SYSTEMS; HIGH TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; PEM FUEL CELL; POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANES; THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; THERMAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELING;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84892642894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/FuelCell2012-91440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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