Corrosion Performance of Austenitic Stainless Steel Bipolar Plates for Nafion- and Room-Temperature Ionic-Liquid-Based PEMFCs

Corrosion Performance of Austenitic Stainless Steel Bipolar Plates for Nafion- and Room-Temperature Ionic-Liquid-Based PEMFCs

In this paper we study the corrosion of AISI 304 austenitic stainless steel PEMFC bipolar plates in aqueous and room-temperature ionic-liquid electrolytes. The anodic potential thresholds and dynamics have been investigated by electrochemical (potentiodynamic and potentiostatic) and in situ spectroelectrochemical methods (visible electroreflectance and VIS-UV spectroellipsometry). We measured t...

Corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steel in sulphuric acid

The resistance and susceptibility of austenitic stainless steel, Type 304, exposed to strong tetraoxosulphate (VI) acids (2 and 5 M concentrations) contaminated with sodium chloride at ambient temperatures was investigated by gravimetric and metallographic/scanning electron microscopy surface characterization methods. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) was used to examine and characterize the t...

Low Temperature Thermochemical Treatments of Austenitic Stainless Steel Without Impairing Its Corrosion Resistance

Analysis of Stainless Steel Bipolar Plates Micro-Stamping Processes

Bipolar plate is one of the key components of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). Since the production costs of traditional graphite bipolar plates are very expensive and need a few millimeters thickness over the space, the resulting metal bipolar plate not only reduces the cost of such a bipolar plate, the thickness can also be reduced to micron range. This study aims to explore the a...

A Continuum Damage Model for the Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Stainless Steel

In the present work, the mechanical behavior of stress corrosion cracking phenomenon is described. Such phenomenon presents strong complexity due to metallurgic and electrochemical aspects. A methodology for modeling both SSR (Slow Strain Rate) and CL (Constant Load) tests based upon thermodynamics of continuum solids and elastoplastic damage is proposed. In this macroscopic approach, besides t...