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http://dx.doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2018.29.6.587

A Evaluation on the Effect of Vibration for the Application of PEMFC Stack to Unmanned Aircraft  

KANG, JUN-YOUNG (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
OH, GUN-WOO (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
KIM, MIN-WOO (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
LEE, JUNG-WOON (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
LEE, SEUNG-KUK (Institute of Gas Safety R&D, Korea Gas Safety Corporation)
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Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society / v.29, no.6, 2018 , pp. 587-595 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, research is being conducted to use a fuel cell as a power source of unmanned aircraft. However, safety standards about applying fuel cells to unmanned aircraft are insufficient. In this paper, to improve the safety of the fuel cells for unmanned aircraft is experimentally studied. For this reason, standards for safety of fuel cells were analyzed. And influence of vibration among the evaluation items related to the safety of the fuel cell for unmanned aircraft was discussed. In order to, at constant intervals, vibration was applied to the fuel cell, then the performance was measured, the measurement items were gas tightness, polarization curve, frequency response analysis (FRA). A total of 220 hours was experimented at 20 hour intervals. the result of vibration test, gas leakage rate was a maximum of -0.04826 kPa/min and Polarization curve reached a maximum of 1.0103 times of the initial value, the charge transfer resistance reached a maximum of 1.0104 times of the initial value. This research indicate that performance of fuel cell is affected by vibration and this study is expected to contribute to the safety of fuel cell for unmanned aircraft.
Keywords
Fuel cell; Vibration; Safety; Unmanned aircraft; Safety standard;
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