In this thesis, a portable PEMFC stack, which can directly power or charge 3C products, will be developed. The stack is developed for portable applications, so the structure of the stack is simplified as possible as we can. The PEMFC stack is made with 32 carbon fiber bunches for current collectors and two 8-cell banded-type MEAs which are made with 8 sets of electrodes on a piece of membrane. The stack can develop a high voltage by serially connecting 8 cell or 16 cell outside of the reaction chamber.
The resistance of each carbon bunch assembling with carbon cloth is measured before they are assembled into the stack. Under assembly pressure 3 bar, the total resistance is about 8.7m£[ or 11m£[¡Ecm2. The resistance is about one half of that graphite plate assembling with carbon cloth. Without being compressed greatly in diffusion layer, the fluid can easily flow through the gaps between carbon fiber and within diffusion layers, and then the reactive region will react more uniformly. In addition, the connecting wires are assembled to a wire collecting board, so that the stack is look more neat, and it easier assemble or dissemble.
In this thesis, the volume of the developed 16-cell hydrogen fuel cell stack is about 9.6 cm*6.3 cm*2.2 cm. The total electrode area is 50 cm2 (16-cell¡Ñ3.15 cm2 per cell). When the stack is operating at room temperature and air-breathing, an 8-cell stack in series connection can generate 3.7V voltage. Its power at voltage 3.7V is about 3.6W. It can directly power PDAs, mobile phones or digital cameras. A 16-cell stack in series connection can generate 7.2V voltage. Its power at this voltage can offer 7W. The 16-cell stack can directly power digital single-lens reflex cameras. If two or more of this stack are connected in series, it will be able to power a notebook or other more power products.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0908110-114132 |
| Date | 08 September 2010 |
| Creators | Lee, Kun-Cheng |
| Contributors | Chung-Fu Liu, Long-Jeng Chen, Ming-San Lee |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0908110-114132 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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