The research of a hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cell is performed under certain designing and operational conditions. The water management technique is incorperated into the experimental work. The cell voltage vs. the current densities are studied by changing the stack reactive temperatures, the gas inlet temperatures and pressures, and the relative humidities in hydrogen stream. Eventually, we hope that these experimental results can provide the information about the optimizing conditions of fuel cells so that they can be used to design a high power multiple-cell fuel cell stack.
A membrane and electrode assembly (called MEA) which contains a proton exchange membrane Nafion 112, anode catalyst Pt 0.4 mg/cm2, and cathode catalyst Pt 1.0 mg/cm2 is used in this experiment. The gas flowing area is about 58% of the total area. A proper heating and humidification equipment is applied in this experimental system. The experimental results show that the cell voltage at low current density is slightly influenced by the hydrogen inlet temperature; however, the cell voltage at high current density is strongly influenced by the humidity ratio of hydrogen stream. Raising the hydrogen pressure and the oxygen pressure at the same time can increases the cell voltage, but it is no obvious effects on the cell voltage when the gas pressure increases to more than 2 atm. When air is used as a oxidizer, increasing the inlet air temperature always reduces the cell voltage.
With the hydrogen stream at saturated temperature 80¢XC, the assembly torque of the stack at 4 N-m, and the stack temperature at 80¢XC, the single fuel cell stack can always generate the best cell voltages at most of the current densities. At this time, the cell voltage at current density 1 A/cm2 already can reach a value higher than 0.6 V.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0716102-124133 |
| Date | 16 July 2002 |
| Creators | Liao, Ming-Hsiang |
| Contributors | Chin-Chia Su, 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-0716102-124133 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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