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Numerical simulation of a new operational regime for a polymer electrolyte fuel cell
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In this article, a quasi-3D numerical simulation of a gas feed direct methanol fuel cell is performed, where the flow field is formed by three parallel meander-like channels.About:
This article is published in Electrochemistry Communications.The article was published on 2001-08-01. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Direct methanol fuel cell & Cathode.read more
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An improved two-dimensional agglomerate cathode model to study the influence of catalyst layer structural parameters
TL;DR: In this article, a two-dimensional model for PEM fuel cell cathode has been developed, which treats the catalyst layer as agglomerates of polymer electrolyte coated catalyst particles.
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A general model of proton exchange membrane fuel cell
Anh Dinh Le,Biao Zhou +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a general model of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) was constructed, implemented and employed to simulate the fluid flow, heat transfer, species transport, electrochemical reaction, and current density distribution, especially focusing on liquid water effects on PEMFC performance.
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Modeling the Influence of GDL and flow-field plate parameters on the reaction distribution in the PEMFC cathode catalyst layer
TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional cross-the-channel model was applied to investigate the influence of gas diffusion layer (GDL) property and flow-field geometry on the local reaction rate in the PEMFC cathode catalyst layer.
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Liquid water transport in parallel serpentine channels with manifolds on cathode side of a PEM fuel cell stack
Kui Jiao,Biao Zhou,Peng Quan +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical investigation of air-water flow in parallel serpentine channels on cathode side of a proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack by use of the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package FLUENT was presented.
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Liquid water transport in straight micro-parallel-channels with manifolds for PEM fuel cell cathode
Kui Jiao,Biao Zhou,Peng Quan +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, a numerical investigation of air-water flow in micro-parallel-channels with PEM fuel cell stack inlet and outlet manifolds for the cathode, using a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package FLUENT, is presented.
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A Mathematical Model of the Solid‐Polymer‐Electrolyte Fuel Cell
Dawn Bernardi,Mark W. Verbrugge +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a mathematical model of the solid polymer-electrolyte fuel cell is presented to investigate factors that limit cell performance and elucidate the mechanism of species transport in the complex network of gas, liquid, and solid phases of the cell.
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A review of the state-of-the-art of the methanol crossover in direct methanol fuel cells
Angelika Heinzel,V.M. Barragán +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of methanol crossover in DMFCs and the effort to get a more methenol-impermeably polymer electrolyte found in the literature is discussed.
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Multicomponent transport in porous electrodes of proton exchange membrane fuel cells using the interdigitated gas distributors
Jung S. Yi,Trung Van Nguyen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a steady-state multicomponent transport model to investigate the hydrodynamics of gases in the cathode of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell that is contacted to an interdigitated gas distributor.
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Direct methanol–air fuel cells for road transportation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the history of the direct methanol-air fuel cell and the various problems associated with its commercial development, in particular the mechanisms of the electrode reactions, the development of effective catalysts and the possible electrolytes which can be used.
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A Gas Distributor Design for Proton‐Exchange‐Membrane Fuel Cells
TL;DR: In this article, a nonconventional gas distribution design was developed to improve the mass-transport rates of the reactants from the flow channels to the inner catalyst layers of the porous electrodes and to reduce the electrode water flooding problem in the cathode of proton-exchange-membrane fuel cells.
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