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A numerical study on the effects of gas channel wettability in PEM fuel cells
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posted on 2014-08-27, 10:29 authored by Mosab Alrahmani, Rui Chen, Salah Ibrahim, Samir PatelThe wettability of channel walls and gas diffusion layer has a great influence on the water management of fuel cells. In this paper, a numerical study has been carried out to examine the effect of the wall and gas diffusion layer wettability on gas channels. The investigation employed a three dimensional numerical simulation using the volume-of-fluid (VOF) method to simulate the air-water flow in a straight micro-channel representing a gas channel in a PEM fuel cell. Nine combinations of wall and GDL wettabilities were investigated. Different wettability combinations were found to give different water behaviour. For fixed wall wettability, the pattern of the analysed parameters was changing between uniform cyclic, random cyclic and continuous. In addition, it was found that changing the GDL wettability has a greater impact on the analysed parameter compared to changing the wall wettability.
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The Author gratefully acknowledges the support of ANSYS UK LTD and the financial support of PAAET of Kuwait.
History
School
- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department
- Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering
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ECS TransactionsVolume
48Issue
1Pages
81 - 92Citation
ALRAHMANI, M. ... et al., 2014. A numerical study on the effects of gas channel wettability in PEM fuel cells. ECS Transactions, 48(1), pp.81-92.Publisher
© The Electrochemical SocietyVersion
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© The Electrochemical Society, Inc. 2014. All rights reserved. Except as provided under U.S. copyright law, this work may not be reproduced, resold, distributed, or modified without the express permission of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). This paper was also presented at the 13th International Conference on Advanced Batteries, Accumulators and Fuel Cells (ABAF 2012), August 26-30, Brno, Czech Republic.ISSN
1938-5862Publisher version
Language
- en