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http://dx.doi.org/10.14478/ace.2018.1101

Study of Voltage Loss on Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell Using Empirical Equation  

Kim, Kiseok (School of Chemical Engineering University of Ulsan)
Goo, Youngmo (Korea Automotive Technology Institute)
Kim, Junbom (School of Chemical Engineering University of Ulsan)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.29, no.6, 2018 , pp. 789-798 More about this Journal
Abstract
The role of empirical equation to predict the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell is important. The activation, ohmic and mass transfer losses were separated in a polarization curve, and the curve fitting according to each region was performed using Kim's model and Hao's model. Changes of each loss were compared according to operation variables of the temperature, pressure, oxygen concentration and membrane thickness. The existing model showed a good fitting convergence, but less fitting accuracy in the separated loss region. A new model using the convergence coefficient was suggested to improve the accuracy of performance prediction of fuel cells of which results were demonstrated.
Keywords
PEMFC; empirical equation; polarization curve; voltage loss; converge coefficient;
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