Mechanical Behavior of Free-Standing Fuel Cell Electrodes
· Fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes as free-standing materials is essential to develop mechanically robust fuel cells. However this has been a significant challenge due to critical difficulties such as separating the pristine electrode from the substrate without damage and precisely measuring the mechanical properties of the very
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· cell operations causing increases in the mass-transfer resistance 6–7 and electrode sheet resistance.8 The wetting property at the cathode changes as the carbon corrosion progresses and accelerated stress test (AST) is a common method to speed up carbon degradation in fuel cell electrodes. Studies have shown that the water contact angles de-
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· The catalyst layer of a PEM fuel cell is a porous mixture of polymer carbon and platinum. The characteristics of the catalyst layer play a critical role in determining the performance of the PEM fuel cell. In this work we develop modified Graphite/ polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based electrodes
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This paper presents simple mathematical expressions that can be used for optimizing fuel cell electrode structures specifically polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Based on the effectiveness factor equations relate current density to catalyst utilization and a mass transfer coefficient. These can be used to screen new materials or identify which specific processes need to be
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· fuel-cell operation is of necessity quite complicated. A further hindrance to under- standing is the fact that only overall performance may be investigated experimentally for most electrodes. Although a number of fairly complex mathematical models of the operation of porous fuel-cell electrodes
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· fuel-cell operation is of necessity quite complicated. A further hindrance to under- standing is the fact that only overall performance may be investigated experimentally for most electrodes. Although a number of fairly complex mathematical models of the operation of porous fuel-cell electrodes
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· Technologies. The electrodes were then evaluated in a hydrogen/air fuel cell at Vanderbilt University. MEAs using eSpin electrodes performed very well at beginning of life with power densities comparable to Vanderbilt fiber electrodes but the maximum power decreased by 45 after 30 000 catalyst AST cycles versus a 25 power loss for a Vanderbilt electrode MEA.
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· The catalyst layer of a PEM fuel cell is a porous mixture of polymer carbon and platinum. The characteristics of the catalyst layer play a critical role in determining the performance of the PEM fuel cell. In this work we develop modified Graphite/ polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based electrodes
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· The catalyst layer of a PEM fuel cell is a porous mixture of polymer carbon and platinum. The characteristics of the catalyst layer play a critical role in determining the performance of the PEM fuel cell. In this work we develop modified Graphite/ polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based electrodes
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· cell operations causing increases in the mass-transfer resistance 6–7 and electrode sheet resistance.8 The wetting property at the cathode changes as the carbon corrosion progresses and accelerated stress test (AST) is a common method to speed up carbon degradation in fuel cell electrodes. Studies have shown that the water contact angles de-
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· Fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes as free-standing materials is essential to develop mechanically robust fuel cells. However this has been a significant challenge due to critical difficulties such as separating the pristine electrode from the substrate without damage and precisely measuring the mechanical properties of the very
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· Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is a prospective technology that purifies wastewater and converts its chemical energy into electrical energy using microorganisms as biocatalysts 3 . MFCs are one of the renewable sources of energy for the production of electricity from waste. A microbial fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy
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· Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is a prospective technology that purifies wastewater and converts its chemical energy into electrical energy using microorganisms as biocatalysts 3 . MFCs are one of the renewable sources of energy for the production of electricity from waste. A microbial fuel cell is a device that converts chemical energy
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· Fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes as free-standing materials is essential to develop mechanically robust fuel cells. However this has been a significant challenge due to critical difficulties such as separating the pristine electrode from the substrate without damage and precisely measuring the mechanical properties of the very
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· pulse voltammetry of PEM fuel cell electrodes. Experimental In this work we used a 5 cm 2 ®Gore PRIMEA Series 57 membrane electrode assembly (0.4 mg/cm 2 Pt on anode and cathode) and SGL SIGRACET ® 25BC gas diffusion layers in Scribner single cell hardware. The fuel cell cathode was fed N 2 and was the working electrode while the fuel cell
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This paper presents simple mathematical expressions that can be used for optimizing fuel cell electrode structures specifically polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Based on the effectiveness factor equations relate current density to catalyst utilization and a mass transfer coefficient. These can be used to screen new materials or identify which specific processes need to be
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