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Development of Lightweight DMFC System for Charging Secondary Battery in Military Operational Environment

군 운용환경에서 이차전지 충전을 위한 경량화 DMFC 시스템 개발

  • Received : 2017.09.27
  • Accepted : 2017.10.30
  • Published : 2017.10.30
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Abstract

In this study, we developed 300 W lightweight DMFC system for charging secondary battery in small unit military operation. In order to reduce the volumetric shape and weight of the system considering the environment of the individual soldier's, the arranging of system components has been optimized. A metal bipolar plates made of STS-470FC have been implemented to the DMFC stack to meet the weight demand of the system. As a result of the performance test of the stack, the target value was satisfied by outputting 561 W exceeding 24% of the stack output 450 W required to output 300 W required for the entire system. Moreover, 2,655 hours exceeding 1,000 hours also has been satisfied. To ensure good robustness of the metallic bipolar plate based DMFC stack, finite element method based simulations are conducted using a commercial ANSYS Fluent software.

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