Research progress of heat transfer inside proton exchange membrane fuel cells

Q Wang, B Li, D Yang, H Dai, JP Zheng, P Ming… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heat is one of the main causes of performance degradation and failure of proton exchange
membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The 'hot spot'and uneven temperature distribution formed …

Gas Diffusion layer for proton exchange membrane fuel cells: a review

H Guo, L Chen, SA Ismail, L Jiang, S Guo, J Gu… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are an attractive type of fuel cell that have
received successful commercialization, benefitted from its unique advantages (including an …

Microstructure reconstruction of the gas diffusion layer and analyses of the anisotropic transport properties

H Zhang, L Zhu, HB Harandi, K Duan, R Zeis… - Energy Conversion and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The gas diffusion layer (GDL) is a key component in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell
and a comprehensive understanding of its transport properties is imperative for improving …

Tailored porous transport layers for optimal oxygen transport in water electrolyzers: combined stochastic reconstruction and lattice Boltzmann method

J Liu, M Li, Y Yang, N Schlüter, D Mimic… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The porous transport layer (PTL) plays an integral role for the mass transport in polymer
electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. In this work, a stochastic reconstruction method …

Transport properties evaluation of pore-scale GDLs for PEMFC using orthogonal design method

L Xiao, M Bian, Y Sun, J Yuan, X Wen - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Gas diffusion layer (GDL) is an essential component of proton exchange membrane fuel
cells, serving the functions of gas-water transport, thermal-electrical conduction and …

Fabrication of multi-filler thermoset-based composite bipolar plates for PEMFCs applications: Molding defects and properties characterizations

S Simaafrookhteh, M Khorshidian… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The bipolar plate (BP) material should possess contradictory properties. They should also
manufacture from low-cost methods and materials. In the current investigation, thermoset …

Performance analysis and experimental study of titanium GDL in proton exchange membrane fuel cell

T Ma, H Guo, Z Gu, W Lin, J Qi, C Yu, J Li - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The gas diffusion layer (GDL) plays an important role in proton exchange membrane fuel
cells (PEMFC) to support the catalytic layer, collect the current, conduct the gas and …

Stochastically modeled gas diffusion layers: effects of binder and polytetrafluoroethylene on effective gas diffusivity

L Zhu, W Yang, L Xiao, H Zhang, X Gao… - Journal of the …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An improved stochastic reconstruction method for a gas diffusion layer (GDL) of proton
exchange membrane fuel cell is developed to promote the accuracy in evaluating effective …

Microstructure reconstruction using fiber tracking technique and pore-scale simulations of heterogeneous gas diffusion layer

L Xiao, Z Yin, M Bian, N Bevilacqua, R Zeis… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Two challenging tasks in pore-scale modeling of a gas diffusion layer (GDL) are realistic
microstructure reconstruction and stress-strain simulation to differentiate the heterogeneous …

Experimental validation of pore-scale models for gas diffusion layers

L Xiao, L Zhu, C Clökler, A Grünzweig, F Wilhelm… - Journal of Power …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pore-scale modeling developed over the past decades has become a powerful method to
evaluate the effective transport properties of porous electrodes. Experimental verification for …