The development of polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells that can be operated over a wide temperature range without the need for humidification is highly desirable for vehicle applications to overcome the problems associated with CO poisoning and water management. Here we report a novel PEM based on 1H-1,2,4-triazole grafted polysiloxane doped with phosphoric acid and reinforced with po...

computational fluid dynamics analysis was employed to investigate the radial flow field patterns of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (pemfc) with different channel geometries at high operating current densities. 3d, non-isothermal was used with single straight channel geometry. our study showed that new generation of fuel cells with circle stack with the same active area and inlet area gave ...

Fuel cells have become one of the major areas of research in the academia and the industry. The goal of most fish farmers is to maximize production and profits while holding labor and management efforts to the minimum. Risk of fish kills, disease outbreaks, poor water quality in most pond culture operations, aeration offers the most immediate and practical solution to water quality problems enc...

Online monitoring humidity in the proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an important issue in maintaining proper membrane humidity. The cost and size of existing sensors for monitoring humidity are prohibitive for online measurements. Online prediction of humidity using readily available measured data would be beneficial to water management. In this paper, a novel soft sensor method based...

In this paper, the problem of robust fault diagnosis in a PEM Fuel Cell (PEM FC) system is addressed. Fault detection is based on a LPV interval observer able to face the variations of parameters with the operating while preserving the linear structure of the model. At the same time, this approach addresses the robustness problem against modeling uncertainty included as unknown parameters whose...

In situ, line-of-sight measurements of water vapor partial pressure and temperature were performed in a gas channel on the cathode side of an perating PEM fuel cell. Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy was employed for these measurements for which water transitions sensitive o temperature and partial pressure were utilized. The previously demonstrated methodology for water partial press...

in this study cross section geometry and material of gasket in proton exchange membrane (pem) fuel cells have been investigated to achieve optimized fuel cell in terms of energy efficiency. the role of gaskets in fuel cells is sealing of gas flow channels and preventing from combination of them. in a pem stack, gasket with approved geometry that suffers more stress has better sealing. for this ...

The mechanisms of fuel cell degradation are not well understood. Even though the numbers of installed units around the world continue to increase and dominate the pre-markets, the present lifetime requirements for fuel cells cannot be guarantee, creating the need for a more comprehensive knowledge of material’s ageing mechanism. In this work, failure modes and mechanism of the membrane-electrod...

This paper is concerned with the simultaneous flow of liquid water and gaseous reactants in mini-channels of a proton exchange membrane PEM) fuel cell. Envisaging the mini-channels as structured and ordered porous media, we develop a continuum model of two-phase channel ow based on two-phase Darcy’s law and the M2 formalism, which allow estimate of the parameters key to fuel cell operation such...