EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A PEMFC SYSTEM WITH DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF THE SERPENTINE TYPE CHANNELS FROM BIPOLAR PLATE FLOW FIELDS

Authors

  • Adriana Andronie University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, 3Nano - SAE Research Center, Bucharest, 077125, Romania
  • Ioan Stamatin University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, 3Nano - SAE Research Center, Bucharest, 077125, Romania
  • Valentin Girleanu University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics, 3Nano - SAE Research Center, Bucharest, 077125, Romania
  • IONESCU VIOREL Ovidius University of Constanta
  • Nicolae Buzbuchi Department of Engineering Sciences, Maritime University, Constanta, 900663, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.25.1.21907

Keywords:

channel width, power density, efficiency

Abstract

In this study, a BEKKTECH BT-552 PEMFC test station was used in order to investigate the effect of a three different gas flow fields (with w/a ratios of 1, 1.05 and 1.2) on fuel cell performance at two different system backpressures of 70 kPa ( Test no. 1) and 30 kPa (Test no.2), respectively. The nominal efficiency of the PEM fuel cell was  an arbitrary value, located in the domain 0.76 – 0.46 for Test no. 1 and 0.75 – 0.39 for Test no. 2 in the case of the optimized flow field model M3, with w/a ratio of 1.05.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.25.1.21907

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Published

2019-03-05

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019)

Section

MECHANICS OF FLUIDS AND GASES