한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
- 한국신재생에너지학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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- Pages.572-575
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- 2008
유로 형상 변화에 따른 CFD 해석 결과와 PEM 연료전지 성능 비교
Comparison between CFD analysis and experiments according to various PEMFC flow-field designs
초록
Flow-field design has much influence over the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) because it affects the pressure magnitude and distribution of the reactant gases. To obtain the pressure magnitude and distribution of reactant gases in four kinds of flow-field designs without additional measurement equipment, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed. After the CFD analysis, the performance values of PEMFC according to the flow-field configurations were measured via a single cell test. As expected, the pressure differences due to different flow-field configurations were related to the PEMFC performance because the actual performance results showed the same tendency as the results of the CFD analysis. A large pressure drop resulted in high PEMFC performance. So, the single serpentine configuration gave the highest performance. On the other hand, the parallel flow-field configuration gave the lowest performance because the pressure difference between inlet and outlet was the lowest.
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