TY - GEN
T1 - A fuel cell stack architecture to make all cells have equal operational conditions and performance
AU - Liu, Hong
AU - Li, Peiwen
AU - Hartz, Alexandra
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents a novel architecture for a proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack, which is based on the concept that every cell in the stack works at the same condition and thus each cell has the same contribution to the overall output voltage and power. To meet this proposed requirement, special flow distributors were used to evenly distribute fuel and airflow to every fuel cell in the stack. Details of the flow distributor and experimental tests of a four-cell fuel cell stack are presented in the paper. The experimental results demonstrated the desired high performance of the fuel cell stack. It is proved that the novel architecture for fuel cell stack is successful and of significance to the development of high performance fuel cell stacks.
AB - This paper presents a novel architecture for a proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack, which is based on the concept that every cell in the stack works at the same condition and thus each cell has the same contribution to the overall output voltage and power. To meet this proposed requirement, special flow distributors were used to evenly distribute fuel and airflow to every fuel cell in the stack. Details of the flow distributor and experimental tests of a four-cell fuel cell stack are presented in the paper. The experimental results demonstrated the desired high performance of the fuel cell stack. It is proved that the novel architecture for fuel cell stack is successful and of significance to the development of high performance fuel cell stacks.
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U2 - 10.1115/FuelCell2012-91240
DO - 10.1115/FuelCell2012-91240
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84892652942
SN - 9780791844823
T3 - ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2012
SP - 153
EP - 159
BT - ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Collocated with the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, FUELCELL 2012
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - ASME 2012 10th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, FUELCELL 2012 Collocated with the ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability
Y2 - 23 July 2012 through 26 July 2012
ER -