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Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality
Researchers have been striving to minimize proton exchange membrane fuel cell components thickness. This is believed to reduce the losses (active losses, ohmic losses and mass transfer losses) associated with this cell. In this study, we numerically analyze the electrodes and electrolyte thickness e...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9866212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36676819 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010012 |
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author | Nawale, Shubham Manoj Dlamini, Mangaliso Menzi Weng, Fang-Bor |
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description | Researchers have been striving to minimize proton exchange membrane fuel cell components thickness. This is believed to reduce the losses (active losses, ohmic losses and mass transfer losses) associated with this cell. In this study, we numerically analyze the electrodes and electrolyte thickness effects on high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (H-TPEMFC) performance. COMSOL Multiphysics is adopted to model both the impedance spectroscopy and polarization of the cell. Increased cell catalyst layer (thick electrode) improves the overall cell performance by ±10%, because of the improved reaction rate. It presents 0.89 mol m(−3) lesser oxygen compared to that of the thin electrode cell. On the contrary, thick cell electrodes come with increased mass transport loss. The high reaction rate is also confirmed by the high amount of generated water, which is 0.42 mol m(−3) higher than that of thin electrode cell. The experiment used to set the modeling parameter renders results with only less than 5% discrepancy to the modeling results. Also revealed is that over a limited range, electrolytes thickness variation has negligible effects on H-TPEMFC performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-98662122023-01-22 Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality Nawale, Shubham Manoj Dlamini, Mangaliso Menzi Weng, Fang-Bor Membranes (Basel) Article Researchers have been striving to minimize proton exchange membrane fuel cell components thickness. This is believed to reduce the losses (active losses, ohmic losses and mass transfer losses) associated with this cell. In this study, we numerically analyze the electrodes and electrolyte thickness effects on high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (H-TPEMFC) performance. COMSOL Multiphysics is adopted to model both the impedance spectroscopy and polarization of the cell. Increased cell catalyst layer (thick electrode) improves the overall cell performance by ±10%, because of the improved reaction rate. It presents 0.89 mol m(−3) lesser oxygen compared to that of the thin electrode cell. On the contrary, thick cell electrodes come with increased mass transport loss. The high reaction rate is also confirmed by the high amount of generated water, which is 0.42 mol m(−3) higher than that of thin electrode cell. The experiment used to set the modeling parameter renders results with only less than 5% discrepancy to the modeling results. Also revealed is that over a limited range, electrolytes thickness variation has negligible effects on H-TPEMFC performance. MDPI 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9866212/ /pubmed/36676819 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010012 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Nawale, Shubham Manoj Dlamini, Mangaliso Menzi Weng, Fang-Bor Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title | Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title_full | Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title_fullStr | Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title_full_unstemmed | Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title_short | Analyses of the Effects of Electrolyte and Electrode Thickness on High Temperature Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (H-TPEMFC) Quality |
title_sort | analyses of the effects of electrolyte and electrode thickness on high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (h-tpemfc) quality |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9866212/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36676819 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes13010012 |
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