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Manufacture and performance of the MEA of a 500W Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC)

This study has two purposes: First, the catalyst-coated membrane (CCM) method to produce high performance and high utilization of electrode, and the other is to enhance the fuel cell performance with the heterogeneous carbon fiber bunch framework of stack.
First, to establish an ideal electrode structure, there has an intensive triple phase boundaries. We will describe how the procedure of reliable and practical electrode improved following the optimization of (1) the spray system, and (2) the catalyst dispersion. We will also focus (3) modification of the spray system, and (4) electrode performance analysis.
In addition, investigate of the single cell performance in heterogeneous carbon fiber bunch framework. We will find that: (1) Increasing the catalyst loading and concentrated the catalyst activation reaction, can be improve the electrode performance and catalyst utilization. (2) Coating a thin conductive layer onto membrane electrode (ME), be a precise hot-pressue process in the Stack and MEA or GDL and ME, can be reduce the contact resistance. Specially, reduce the carbon fiber coverage fraction with electrode area, result the activation reaction decay and ohmic loss obviously. (3) Increasing the gas flow rate, can enhance the mass transfer performance, but increase the pressure of the reaction gas, can¡¦t significant effect on performance. Besides, when the stack is anode side up, seems favorable to the exclusion the generate water of cathode.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0309112-183603
Date09 March 2012
CreatorsTsai, Po-feng
ContributorsLong-jeng Chen, Ming-san Lee, Chung-jen Tseng, Chorng-fuh Liu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0309112-183603
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