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Performance enhancement of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell by bottomed-baffles in bipolar-plate channels

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  • Perng, Shiang-Wuu
  • Wu, Horng-Wen
  • Chen, Yi-Bin
  • Zeng, Yi-Kai

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Since HT-PEMFCs (high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell) operate above 120 °C, it can vaporize the liquid water produced at cathode to simplify the water management system and has better tolerance of CO in the PBI (polybenzimidazole) membrane. This study utilized a three-dimensional numerical model to explore the cell performance of HT-PEMFCs (high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells) under the installation of various-numbers baffles on the bottom of the anode and cathode bipolar-plate channels by the SIMPLE-C algorithm. Furthermore, this study accounted for the pressure drop through the bipolar-plate channel to determine the net HT-PEMFC power. The numerical results display that the highest net HT-PEMFC power exists as the number of bottomed-baffle is five, and the net HT-PEMFC power for five bottomed-baffles is higher than that for without baffles by 8%. The present simulation is verified by the HT-PEMFC performance measured from the in-house experiment to show that the CFD results reasonably consist with the measured data of in-house experiments. In addition, the five bottomed-baffle channel has lower total impedance than smooth channel resulted from an electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) test.

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  • Perng, Shiang-Wuu & Wu, Horng-Wen & Chen, Yi-Bin & Zeng, Yi-Kai, 2019. "Performance enhancement of a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell by bottomed-baffles in bipolar-plate channels," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 255(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:appene:v:255:y:2019:i:c:s0306261919315028
    DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113815
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    1. Chen, Hao & Guo, Hang & Ye, Fang & MA, Chong Fang, 2022. "Cell performance and flow losses of proton exchange membrane fuel cells with orientated-type flow channels," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 181(C), pages 1338-1352.
    2. Prantik Roy Chowdhury & Adam C. Gladen, 2024. "Design of Flow Fields for High-Temperature PEM Fuel Cells Using Computational Fluid Dynamics," Energies, MDPI, vol. 17(19), pages 1-27, September.
    3. Xing, Shuang & Zhao, Chen & Zou, Jiexin & Zaman, Shahid & Yu, Yang & Gong, Hongwei & Wang, Yajun & Chen, Ming & Wang, Min & Lin, Meng & Wang, Haijiang, 2022. "Recent advances in heat and water management of forced-convection open-cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cells," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 165(C).
    4. Wu, Horng-Wen & Ho, Tzu-Yi & Han, Yueh-Jung, 2021. "Parametric optimization of wall-mounted cuboid rows installed in interdigitated flow channel of HT-PEM fuel cells," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 216(C).
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    8. Dafalla, Ahmed Mohmed & Wei, Lin & Liao, Zihao & Guo, Jian & Jiang, Fangming, 2023. "Influence of cathode channel blockages on the cold start performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell: A numerical study," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 263(PA).

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