Effective transport properties accounting for electrochemical reactions of proton-exchange membrane fuel cell catalyst layers

Jon G. Pharoah, Hae Won Choi, Chih Che Chueh, David B. Harvey

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Abstract

There has been a rapidly growing interest in three-dimensional microstructural reconstruction of fuel cell electrodes so as to derive more accurate descriptors of the pertinent geometric and effective transport properties. Due to the limited accessibility of experiments based reconstruction techniques, such as dual-beam focused ion beamscanning electro microscopy or micro X-Ray computed tomography, within sample micro-structures of the catalyst layers in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), a particle based numerical model is used in this study to reconstruct sample microstructure of the catalyst layers in PEMFCs. Then the reconstructed sample structure is converted into the computational grid using body-fitted/cut-cell based unstructured meshing technique. Finally, finite volume methods (FVM) are applied to calculate effective properties on computational sample domains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPolymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells 11
PublisherElectrochemical Society Inc.
Pages221-227
Number of pages7
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781607682547
ISBN (Print)9781607682547
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Event11th Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Symposium, PEFC 11 - 220th ECS Meeting - Boston, MA, United States
Duration: 2011 Oct 92011 Oct 14

Publication series

NameECS Transactions
Number1
Volume41
ISSN (Print)1938-5862
ISSN (Electronic)1938-6737

Other

Other11th Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Symposium, PEFC 11 - 220th ECS Meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston, MA
Period11-10-0911-10-14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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