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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2017.28.5.481

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

LEE, SUWON (LIGNex1 Co., Ltd.)
GWAK, GEONHUI (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
RO, JUNGHO (LIGNex1 Co., Ltd.)
CHO, YOUNGRAE (LIGNex1 Co., Ltd.)
KIM, DOYOUN (LIGNex1 Co., Ltd.)
JU, HYUNCHUL (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.28, no.5, 2017 , pp. 481-491 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Direct methanol fuel cells; Charging system; Metal bipolar plate; Hybrid technology; Sub-zero temperature operation;
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