PREDICTING THE EFFECT OF GAS-FLOW CHANNEL SPACING ON CURRENT DENSITY IN PEM FUEL CELLS

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 1999-B, Issue , 1999, Pages 337-350

  Naseri Neshat, Hamid ^a   Shimpalee, Sirivatch ^b   Dutta, Sandip ^b   Lee, Woo Kum ^b,c   Van Zee, J W ^b,c  

^a SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CATHODES; CHANNEL FLOW; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION IN GASES; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW VELOCITY; GAS TURBINES; HEAT TRANSFER; MOLECULES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

ANODE WATER; CHANNEL MODELLING; CHANNEL SPACINGS; DIFFUSION LAYERS; GAS FLOW CHANNEL; LAYER WIDTH; ON-CURRENTS; PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANES FUEL CELLS; STRAIGHT CHANNEL; WIDE DIFFUSION;

PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

EID: 85122662098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE1999-0843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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