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http://dx.doi.org/10.5139/JKSAS.2012.40.12.1063

Performance assessment of Magnesium Bipolar Plates for Light Weight PEM Fuel Cell  

Park, To-Soon (Agency for Defense Development)
Lee, Dong-Woo (Hyundai Engineering)
Kim, Kyung-Hwan (Department of Aerospace Engineering of KAIST)
Kwon, Se-Jin (Department of Aerospace Engineering of KAIST)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences / v.40, no.12, 2012 , pp. 1063-1069 More about this Journal
Abstract
In present paper, we used magnesium alloy having a lower density and higher electrical conductivity for bipolar plate to reduce the weight of PEM fuel cell. The silver was coated to prevent corrosion and form passivation film on the metal surface with sputtering. In acid proof evaluation for setting optimal coating conditions, the homogeneity of coating thickness was improved by coating with the thickness of 3 ${\mu}m$ which not indicated any micro cracks and the temperature $180^{\circ}C$. The performance test and evaluation based on the clamping pressure and channel depth to determine the configuration of bipolar plate for assembling single cell was implemented. And then we assembled single cell with this bipolar plate and implemented the performance test to ensure and compare the current-voltage performance followed as several factors such as coating or non-coating, the change of clamping pressure, the change of channel depth, etc. As these results, the maximum power density of single cell with the coated bipolar plate was 192 $mW/cm^2$ and it was confirmed that the power density per unit mass was better than existing metal bipolar plate.
Keywords
PEM Fuel Cell; Magnesium Alloy; Bipolar Plate; Corrosion; Silver sputtering;
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