A new type of heterogeneous carbon fiber bunch bipolar plate developed in our lab is applied to portable pure hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell stacks. Several different types of bipolar plate structures have been designed, and the voltages and currents of these fuel cell stacks are measured to compare their performance.
The new type of heterogeneous carbon fiber bunch bipolar plate is well in low contact resistance, weight low, small volume and the flexible geometry shape. Due to its flexible structure of carbon fiber bunch, the compressing pressure is small while assembling stack so that the electrode can not be over compressed and out of shape. Therefore the high porosity of diffusion layer can be keep and reaction gas can enter and distribute to all reaction areas easily. For using to portable equipments, a small 6-cell flat type of fuel cell stack are developed firstly. The total weight is about 75g and the total volume is about 68cm . The second stack is cylinder-type(I) fuel cell stack. The total weight is about 60g and the total volume is about 71cm . The third stack is cylinder-type (II). The total weight has been reduced to about 20g and the total volume has been reduced to about 30cm . Above three kinds of the 6-cell stacks the total electrode area is 13.5cm . Using Nafion, the catalyst content anode Pt 0.4mg/cm , cathode Pt 1.0mg/cm , On room temperature and inlet hydrogen gauge pressure 0.15atm air-breathing, total output power of the cylinder (II) can reach 1.85W, and the power density of unit area can reach about 137mW/cm^2.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0721105-184154 |
| Date | 21 July 2005 |
| Creators | Lo, Ming-Yuan |
| Contributors | Ming-San Lee, Long-Jeng Chen, Chin-Chia Su |
| 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-0721105-184154 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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