Due to several apparent advantages over methanol, dimethyl ether (DME) has been viewed as a promising alternative fuel for direct fuel cell technology. Similar to methanol, DME oxidation requires a surface oxidant, such as OH, for the removal of adsorbed CO. Consequently, the reaction occurs at much faster rates on binary PtRu catalysts than Pt alone. In this work, PtRu catalysts with a wide va...

Liquid feed direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) are promising candidates for portable power applications. However, owing to the problems associated with expensive Pt-based catalysts, viz., CO poisoning, a promising approach is to use complex oxides of the type ABO3 (A = Sr, Ce, La, etc. and B = Co, Fe, Ni, Pt, Ru, etc.).

In this study, the activity, stability and performance of carbon supported platinum (Pt/C) electrocatalyst in cathode and carbon supported Pt and ruthenium (PtRu/C) electrocatalyst in anode of direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) were studied. The Pt/C and PtRu/C electrocatalysts were prepared by impregnation reduction method. The β-D-glucose was used as protection agent to reduce the particle size...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Petri Kanninen Name of the doctoral dissertation Characterization of nanostructured catalysts and silicon microstructures in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells Publisher School of Chemical Technology Unit Department of Chemistry Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 76/2014 Field of research Ph...

The increasing miniaturization of devices creates the need for adequate power sources and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) are a strong option in the various possibilities under current development. DMFC catalysts are mostly based on platinum, for its outperformance in three key areas (activity, selectivity and stability) within methanol oxidation framework. However, platinum poisoning with pr...

The operating parameters of the active direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) are essential factors that affect performance. However, it is challenging to maintain optimal maximum output power density due system’s complexity, conditions variation, and correlations between those parameters. This paper proposes an adaptive joint optimization method for methods include numerical simulation operation Bas...