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Diffusion layer parameters influencing optimal fuel cell performance

journal contribution
posted on 2000-03-01, 00:00 authored by L Jordan, A Shukla, T Behrsing, N Avery, B Muddle, Maria ForsythMaria Forsyth
The performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) is substantially influenced by the morphology of the gas diffusion layer. Cells utilising sintered gas diffusion layers made with a low pore volume Acetylene Black carbon, at an optimised thickness, showed better performance compared with cells containing Vulcan XC-72R carbon. The cells were optimised using both oxygen and air as oxidants showing that different conditions were required in each case to achieve optimum cell performance. A model, in which the hydrophobicity and porosity of the diffusion layer affect water impregnation and gas diffusion through the gas diffusion layer, is presented to explain the influence of the diffusion layer morphology on cell performance.

History

Journal

Journal of power sources

Volume

86

Issue

1-2

Pagination

250 - 254

Publisher

Elsevier SA

Location

Switzerland

ISSN

0378-7753

eISSN

1873-2755

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2000, Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.