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http://dx.doi.org/10.5229/JKES.2008.11.1.042

Effect of Carbon Dioxide in Fuel on the Performance of PEMFC  

Seo, Jung-Geun (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Kwon, Jun-Taek (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Kim, Jun-Bom (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society / v.11, no.1, 2008 , pp. 42-46 More about this Journal
Abstract
Even though fuel cell have high efficiency when pure hydrogen from gas tank is used as a fuel source, it is more beneficial to generate hydrogen from city gas (mainly methane) in residential application such as domestic or office environments. Thus hydrogen is generated by reforming process using hydrocarbon. Unfortunately, the reforming process for hydrogen production is accompanied with unavoidable impurities. Impurities such as CO, $CO_2$, $H_2S$, $NH_3$, $CH_4$, and $CH_4$ in hydrogen could cause negative effects on fuel cell performance. Those effects are kinetic losses due to poisoning of the electrode catalysts, ohmic losses due to proton conductivity reduction including membrane and catalyst ionomer layers, and mass transport losses due to degrading catalyst layer structure and hydrophobic property. Hydrogen produced from reformer eventually contains around 73% of $H_2$, 20% or less of $CO_2$, 5.8% of less of $N_2$, or 2% less of $CH_4$, and 10ppm or less of CO. This study is aimed at investigating the effect of carbon dioxide on fuel cell performance. The performance of PEM fuel cell was investigated using current vs. potential experiment, long run(10 hr) test, and electrochemical impedance measurement when the concentrations of carbon dioxide were 10%, 20% and 30%. Also, the concentration of impurity supplied to the fuel cell was verified by gas chromatography(GC).
Keywords
PEM Fuel cell; Carbon dioxide; Contamination; Impedance; Fuel impurity;
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