Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology

The Korean Society of Marine Engineering (한국마린엔지니어링학회)
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Study on optimum structure of free-breathing Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) for robotic application

로봇용 자연급기형 연료전지의 최적구조에 관한 연구

  • 최재혁 (한국원자력연구소 원자력수소사업추진반) ;
  • 박상균 (한국해양대학교)
  • Published : 2006.03.01
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Abstract

The performance of free-breathing polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) was studied experimentally and the effect of cathode separator structure on the cell performance was investigated. Cathode separators were used for the cell with $18cm^2$ active area. In channel type, the contact resistance is low, and the nature convection. which is strongly affected by the cross-sectional shape of cathode separator channel, is dominant in a cell performance. The maximum power density with $18cm^2$ active area is $105mW/cm^2$ using the 10mm depth and 2mm width channel. A computational analysis was optimum structure of free-breathing channel type PEMFC for robotic application.

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