Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1278921 | International Journal of Hydrogen Energy | 2011 | 6 Pages |
The design of a flow field channel of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) was investigated by computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulation and in-situ three-channel impedance spectroscopy. To investigate the efficiency of the in-situ three-channel impedance spectroscopy method, it was adopted with a heterogeneous stack, which was composed according to three different types of flow field design. The in-situ three-channel method proved its validity by showing corresponding result with that obtained from the experiments and CFD simulation at the same experimental condition. This study demonstrates that a heterogeneous stack and in-situ three-channel impedance spectroscopy are powerful tools for predicting and analyzing the performance of a fuel cell stack.