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Experimental Study on the Preferential Oxidation Reactor Performance Using a Water Cooling Heat Removal for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell

수냉식 방열을 이용한 연료전지용 PROX 반응기의 성능에 관한 실험적 연구

  • KIM, JINSAN (Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • JO, TAEHYUN (Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • KOO, BONCHAN (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • LEE, DOHYUNG (Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • 김진산 (한양대학교 기계설계공학과) ;
  • 조태현 (한양대학교 기계설계공학과) ;
  • 구본찬 (한양대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 이도형 (한양대학교 기계설계공학과)
  • Received : 2016.08.12
  • Accepted : 2016.10.30
  • Published : 2016.10.30
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Abstract

Fuel cell is a device for producing electricity by using the hydrogen produced by the fuel processor. At this time, CO is also created by the fuel processor. The resulting CO enters the stack where is produce electricity and leads to the adsorption of anode catalyst, finally the CO poisoning occurs. Stack which occurred CO poisoning has a reduction in performance and shelf life are gradually fall because they do not respond to hydrogen. In this paper, experiments that using a PROX reactor to prevent CO poisoning were carried out for removing the CO concentration to less than 10ppm range available in the fuel cell. Furthermore experiments by the PROX reaction was designed and manufactured with a water-cooling heat exchange reactor to maintain a suitable temperature control due to the strong exothermic reaction.

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