PEMFC 1차원 시뮬레이션 검증을 위한 실험적 연구

An Experimental Study of Verification for PEMFC's 1-Dimensional Simulation

  • 문철언 (부산대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 안성율 (부산대학교 기계공학과 대학원) ;
  • 양장식 (부산대학교 기계기술 연구소) ;
  • 최경민 (부산대학교 기계공학부) ;
  • 김덕줄 (부산대학교 기계공학부)
  • 발행 : 2007.06.21

초록

In this study, we estimated the performance of PEMFC's unit cell as changing operating temperature in different inlet humidity condition at cathode side but anode dry, and tried to match experimental results with 1-dimensional simulation. We used $Nafion^{\circledR}112$ membrane and a self-manufactured PEMFC with active area of $25cm^{2}$ was used in this study. The range of operating temperature was $40{\sim}70^{\circ}C$ and oxygen through bubbled humidity chamber was supplied $0{\sim}80$% humidity condition as changing water temperature in humidity chamber. For figuring out governing equations, represent water contents in electrolyte membrane, the linear forward difference method was applied about time progress and quadratic central difference method was used about space progress. It was assumed that pressure terms were linearly changed due to thin electrolyte membrane. In low operating temperature condition, $40{\sim}60^{\circ}C$, increasing temperature rarely effected cell performance but we can see performance drop at $70^{\circ}C$. By modifying Henrry's constant and/or diffusion coefficient, the modified one-dimensional model was accomplished for calculation.

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