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Water transport study in a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell stack
Bezmalinović, Dario
Strahl, Stephan
Roda, Vicente
Husar, Attila
Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnología, CICYT (España)
CSIC-UPC - Instituto de Robótica e Informática Industrial (IRII)
A study of water transport in a high temperature phosphoric acid doped polybenzimidazole (PBI) membrane fuel cell stack is reported. Tests with different stoichiometries of dry cathode and different humidity levels of anode are performed. It is found that water transport across the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) is noteworthy and that water vapor partial pressure on the anode outlet is almost always higher than on the cathode outlet, even when using dry hydrogen. The water transport is a strong function of current density but it also depends on stoichiometry and humidity level. In a series of tests with dry nitrogen on one side and humid nitrogen on the other side, the membrane's water permeability coefficient is determined to be 2.4 × 10-13 mol s-1 cm-1 Pa-1 at 160 °C which is more than an order of magnitude higher than the values previously reported in the literature. Also, the results indicate that the permeability coefficient might be relative humidity dependent and could even be somewhat higher than the value reported here, but further investigation is needed. The experimental findings are reproduced and explained with a 2D steady state computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. Internal water transport profiles across the membrane and along the gas flow channels are presented and discussed.
2016-01-05T12:19:55Z
2016-01-05T12:19:55Z
2014
2016-01-05T12:19:56Z
artículo
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 39(20): 10627-10640 (2014)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/127307
10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.04.186
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007273
eng
Postprint
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.04.186
Sí
openAccess
Elsevier