...Tae Hyoung Noh; Van Lap Nguyen; Agnesia Permatasari; Magnus So; Gen Inoue An optimized cathode catalyst layer (CCL) design can improve fuel cell performance. In this study, we tried to optimize the structure by investigating the electrochemical properties of ion and mass transport through various...

...Diankai Qiu; Zhutian Xu; Heng Shao; Linfa Peng Water management is of significant importance to achieving high performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. In recent years, droplets emerged from the rib surface and accumulated at the channel corner have been found to be a crucial part...

...Weiqi Zhang; Yuan Jin; Meihui Tan; Huiyuan Liu; Qiang Ma; Qian Xu; Huaneng Su To facilitate the large-scale application of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs), the issue of low Pt/C durability due to Pt degradation and carbon corrosion in harsh DMFC operating conditions must be addressed...

...Yaochen Wang; Hongjuan Ren; Cong Li We developed a three-dimensional multiphysics numerical model of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) with a cathode mesh structure to investigate how coolant flowrate and temperature impact its performance. After experimentally validating the model, we...

...Krishnil R. Ram; Shanal S. Kumar; Vincent Léchappé; Ali Mohammadi; Maurizio Cirrincione The paper presents a simplified nonlinear model for an open cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) and its control using three different control strategies. The model presented uses four state...

...U. L. Compaore; O. Savadogo; K. Oishi The most studied molten carbonate-direct lignin fuel cell (MC-LFC) or molten carbonate-direct carbon fuel cell (MC-DCFC) prototypes are those which are fed by fossil fuel. Substituting these fossilized fuels in the MC-DCFC operation with lignin, which is a bio...

...Michelle Sugimoto; Zhikuan Zhu; Srikanth Gopalan; Soumendra Basu; Uday B. Pal Chromium poisoning of the air electrode remains an obstacle to the long-term performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In Sr-doped LaMnO 3 (LSM) air electrodes, the poisoning process results in two types of deposits...

...Tan Meihui; Liu Huiyuan; Su Huaneng; Zhang Weiqi High-temperature polymer membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs) are considered the trend of PEMFC future development due to their accelerated electrochemical reaction kinetics, simplified water/thermal management, and improved tolerance to impurities (CO...

... membrane was demonstrated as a potential advanced functional solid electrolyte for possible application in proton exchange membrane fuel cell. 1 Corresponding author. Email: jay.pandey@pilani-bits-pilani.ac.in Email: murali@nitw.ac.in 26 10 2022 11 01 2023 11 01 2023 03 02...

...Siyuan Li; Zhe Zhang; Guoxiang Li; Shuzhan Bai A novel after-burner used for the heat-up and normal operating conditions of a metal-supported planar solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system, is designed and experimentally studied in this paper. The burner construction and the calculation of maximum...

...Hassan Mousa; Lei Xing; Prodip K. Das Anion exchange membrane fuel cells (AEMFCs) are in development as a low-cost alternative to proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). AEMFCs produce water at the anode side and consume it at the cathode side, resulting in no cathode water flooding like...

... power density of 44 mW/cm 2 at a current density of 140 mA/cm 2 . The durability test was conducted at a current density of 0.15 A/cm 2 and 70 °C for 144 h to evaluate fuel cell performance and voltage decay. The durability study confirms that the modified membrane provides higher cell stability...

...Siyuan Li; Zhe Zhang; Guoxiang Li; Shuzhan Bai Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a clean and efficient energy utilization technology. Partial oxidation reforming (POX) can be used to simplify the SOFC system structure, but its lower hydrogen production rate deteriorates the system performance. A wise...

...Fatima Zohra Arama; Slimane Laribi; Khaled Mammar; Nouar Aoun; Touhami Ghaitaoui; Messaoud Hamouda The identification of water status is the foundation for fuel cell water management, which is helpful to fuel cell reliability and longevity. In this article, a novel and reliable method...

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...Jinwei Chen; Shengnan Sun; Yao Chen; Huisheng Zhang; Zhenhua Lu The mechanism models of solid oxide fuel cell–gas turbine (SOFC-GT) systems are very useful to analyze the thermodynamic performance details, including the internal complex transfers of mass, heat, and electrochemical processes...

...W. W. Xing; S. Dai; A. A. Shah; L. Luo; Q. Xu; P. K. Leung Neural network models have a long history in fuel cell and battery modeling. With the recent advent of deep learning, there is potential for further improvements in these models. Conversely, deep learning is primarily designed for image...

.... Chemical stability, mechanical abrasion resistance, surface conductivity, and corrosion resistance in a simulated proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) environment are significantly higher for copper coated by Co–G-SA film. Because the copper coated with Co–G-SA has a low interfacial contact...

...Pegah Mottaghizadeh; Mahshid Fardadi; Faryar Jabbari; Jack Brouwer In this study, an islanded microgrid system is proposed that integrates identical stacks of solid oxide fuel cell and electrolyzer to achieve a thermally self-sustained energy storage system. Thermal management of the solid oxide...

...Morio Tomizawa; Keisuke Nagato; Kohei Nagai; Akihisa Tanaka; Marcel Heinzmann; André Weber; Gen Inoue; Masayuki Nakao Micropatterns applied to proton exchange membranes can improve the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells; however, the mechanism underlying this improvement is yet...