Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell possesses the characteristics of microminiaturization and low temperature operation. For this reason, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell is very suitable to serve as power source of portable electronic products. In this paper, a three-dimensional numerical model to evaluate the voltage and the total current density of a PEM fuel cell stack was developed. The polarization curves of the PEM fuel cell stack under three different operating temperatures were investigated.
In this study, the micro PEM fuel cell stack contains two single cells. Pure H2 gas stream was supplied as the anode inlet flow and air as the cathode inlet flow under constant pressure at 97 kPa and constant cell temperate (298K¡B308K¡B323K) conditions. Because the cell temperature may affect the chemical reaction rate on the cathode side, we discussed the influences of different temperatures on the cell performance.
Solutions were compared with the experimental data. Both the value of power density and the tendency of polarization curve are in good agreement with the experimental data.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0821108-164212 |
| Date | 21 August 2008 |
| Creators | Huang, Chun-Hui |
| Contributors | Jen-Jyh Hwang, Ru Yang, Yang, Chien-Yuh |
| 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-0821108-164212 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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