A new method of water and thermal balance analysis for PEM fuel cell stack

Author

Tiancai, Ma ; Zechang, Sun

Author_Institution

Tongji Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2006

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

44

Abstract

This paper deals with the water and thermal balance in Proton Exchange Membrane(PEM) fuel cell stack through the water state calculation and thermodynamic analysis. A reasonable assumption is made by analyzing the experimental result, which assumes that the liquid water generated in fuel cell stack is removed through cathode channel and the gas at both gas channel outlet is water saturated. A new approach for water state and thermodynamic analysis is proposed, which can be used for fuel cell stack at dynamic or steady operation condition without the necessary to investigate the water transfer phenomena in proton exchange membrane.

Keywords

proton exchange membrane fuel cells; thermodynamics; PEM fuel cell stack; thermodynamic analysis; water state calculation; water transfer phenomena; water-thermal balance analysis; Biomembranes; Cathodes; Fuel cell vehicles; Fuel cells; Heat engines; Humidity; Protons; Temperature distribution; Testing; Thermodynamics; FCE; PEM fuel cells stack; water and thermal balance; water state;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Electronics and Safety, 2006. ICVES 2006. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0759-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0759-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVES.2006.371550

Filename

4233986