کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1289127 973289 2011 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Scale-up of a high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell based on polybenzimidazole
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه شیمی الکتروشیمی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Scale-up of a high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell based on polybenzimidazole
چکیده انگلیسی

A high temperature PEM fuel cell stack with a total active area 150 cm2 has been studied. The PEM technology is based on a polybenzimidazole (PBI) membrane. Cast from a PBI polymer synthesised in our lab, the performance of a three-cell stack was analysed in static and dynamic modes. In static mode, operating at high constant oxygen flow rate (QO2>1105 ml O2/min)(QO2>1105 ml O2/min) produces a small decrease on the stack performance. High constant oxygen stoichiometry (λO2>3)(λO2>3) does not produce a decrease on the performance of the stack. There are not differences between operating at constant flow rate of oxygen and constant stoichiometry of oxygen in the stack performance. The effect of operating at high temperature with a pressurization system and operating at higher temperatures are beneficial since the performance of the fuel cell is enhanced. A large shut-down stage produces important performance losses due to the loss of catalyst activity and the loss of membrane conductivity. After 150 h of operation at 0.2 A cm−2, it is observed a very high voltage drop. The phosphoric acid leached from the stack was also evaluated and did not exceed 2% (w/w). This fact suggests that the main degradation mechanism of a fuel cell stack based on polybenzimidazole is not the electrolyte loss. In dynamic test mode, it was observed a rapid response of power and current output even at the lower step-time (10 s). In the static mode at 125 °C and 1 atm, the stack reached a power density peak of 0.29 W cm−2 (43.5 W) at 1 V.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Power Sources - Volume 196, Issue 9, 1 May 2011, Pages 4306–4313
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