Water transport study in a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Volumn 39, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 10627-10640

  Bezmalinović, Dario ^a,b   Strahl, Stephan ^b   Roda, Vicente ^b   Husar, Attila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

HTPEM; Humidification; Modeling; PBI; Water transport

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CATHODES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MODELS; NITROGEN; STOICHIOMETRY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; HIGH TEMPERATURE PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS; HTPEM; HUMIDIFICATION; MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES; PBI; PHOSPHORIC ACID DOPED POLYBENZIMIDAZOLE; WATER TRANSPORT;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 84902536398     PISSN: 03603199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.04.186     Document Type: Article

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