Effects of operating parameters on performance of a single direct methanol fuel cell | Zendy

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Effects of operating parameters on performance of a single direct methanol fuel cell

Author(s) -

Ebrahim Alizadeh,

Mousa Farhadi,

Kurosh Sedighi,

Mohsen Shakeri

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

thermal science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339

H-Index - 43

eISSN - 2334-7163

pISSN - 0354-9836

DOI - 10.2298/tsci1002469a

Subject(s) - methanol , direct methanol fuel cell , materials science , volumetric flow rate , oxygen , cell voltage , limiting oxygen concentration , voltage , operating temperature , methanol fuel , analytical chemistry (journal) , chemistry , thermodynamics , chromatography , electrode , electrical engineering , organic chemistry , anode , engineering , physics

In this study the effect of various operating conditions on 10 cm ×10 cm active area of in-house fabricated direct methanol fuel cell was investigated experimentally. The effect of the cell temperature, methanol concentration, and oxygen flow rate on cell performance was studied. The study reveals that current density is not monotonous function of temperature, but has an optimum operating condition for each cell voltage. The experiments also indicate that the cell performance increases with an increased of oxygen flow rate up to a certain value and then further increase has no significant effect. Furthermore, for methanol concentration greater than 1.5 M, a reduction of cell voltage was indicated which is due to an increase of methanol cross over.

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