Pore-network modeling of liquid water transport in gas diffusion layer of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell

PK Sinha, CY Wang - Electrochimica Acta, 2007 - Elsevier
A pore-network model is developed to study the liquid water movement and flooding in a
gas diffusion layer (GDL), with the GDL morphology taken into account. The dynamics of …

Steady saturation distribution in hydrophobic gas-diffusion layers of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells: A pore-network study

KJ Lee, JH Nam, CJ Kim - Journal of Power Sources, 2010 - Elsevier
A pore-network model is developed to simulate liquid water transport in a hydrophobic gas-
diffusion layer (GDL) during the operation of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells …

Pore-network analysis of two-phase water transport in gas diffusion layers of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

KJ Lee, JH Nam, CJ Kim - Electrochimica Acta, 2009 - Elsevier
A pore-network model was developed to study the water transport in hydrophobic gas
diffusion layers (GDLs) of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The pore …

Unstructured pore network modeling with heterogeneous PEMFC GDL porosity distributions

J Hinebaugh, Z Fishman… - Journal of The …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This is the first investigation of the liquid water saturation profile dependence on empirically
determined heterogeneous polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) gas diffusion …

Liquid water transport in a mixed-wet gas diffusion layer of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell

PK Sinha, CY Wang - Chemical Engineering Science, 2008 - Elsevier
After PTFE treatment, a gas diffusion layer (GDL) of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC)
features mixed wettability, which substantially impacts liquid water transport and associated …

Modeling of two-phase behavior in the gas diffusion medium of PEFCs via full morphology approach

VP Schulz, J Becker, A Wiegmann… - Journal of the …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
A full morphology (FM) model has been developed for studying the two-phase
characteristics of the gas diffusion medium in a polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC). The …

Scale effect and two-phase flow in a thin hydrophobic porous layer. Application to water transport in gas diffusion layers of proton exchange membrane fuel cells

M Rebai, M Prat - Journal of Power Sources, 2009 - Elsevier
Pore network simulations are performed to study water transport in gas diffusion layers
(GDLs) of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The transport and equilibrium …

Effects of porosity distribution variation on the liquid water flux through gas diffusion layers of PEM fuel cells

Z Zhan, J Xiao, D Li, M Pan, R Yuan - Journal of power sources, 2006 - Elsevier
Flooding of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and dehydrating of the polymer
electrolyte membrane have been the key problems to be solved for polymer electrolyte …

Effect of the porosity distribution on the liquid water transport in the gas diffusion layer of PEMFC

X Shangguan, Y Li, Y Qin, S Cao, J Zhang, Y Yin - Electrochimica acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Water management significantly influences the life and power output of the proton exchange
membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The gas diffusion layer (GDL) provides key transport paths of …

Effect of compression on water transport in gas diffusion layer of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell using lattice Boltzmann method

DH Jeon, H Kim - Journal of Power Sources, 2015 - Elsevier
The effect of the compression ratio on the dynamic behavior of liquid water transport in a gas
diffusion layer (GDL) is studied both experimentally and numerically. We experimentally …