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Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Pressure Drop in a Bipolar Plate channel of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell  

Kim, Hee-Su (Korea Insititute of Industrial Technology)
Kang, Kyung-Tae (Korea Insititute of Industrial Technology)
Choi, Yun-Ki (School of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang Univ.)
Lee, Su-Dong (School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Univ. of Technology and education)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.15, no.2, 2004 , pp. 159-165 More about this Journal
Abstract
Fuel cell makes electricity through chemical reaction. Bipolar-plate distribute hydrogen, oxidation using channel geometry condensation of water vapor inside channels of bipolar-plates lowers efficiency of fuel cell. Usually high pressured gas supply is used to solve the water condensation problem with serpentine type channel geometry. In this study, a new channel geometry shows feasible to minimize lowering efficiency due to water condensation through numerical and experimental analysis.
Keywords
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell; Bi-polar plate; Channel; Computational Fluid Dynamics;
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