Computational Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell under Different Operating Mode

Rohit Gupta¹ , Brijendra Kumar Sharma²

1. Department of Physics, Agra College, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra 282003, India.
2. Department of Physics, Agra College, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra 282003, India.

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.11 , Issue.1 , pp.1-6, Feb-2023

Online published on Feb 28, 2023

Copyright © Rohit Gupta, Brijendra Kumar Sharma . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

View this paper at   Google Scholar | DPI Digital Library

XML View     PDF Download

How to Cite this Paper

197 Views    207 Downloads    40 Downloads

Abstract :
The polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells one of the amazing energy sources and also its have incredible properties. The studies are purely theoretical based and compare with few other models, and experimental results. It is reported in several studies. The PEM fuel cell can be used as energy source in future, but for future energy source, few modifications are require, like enhance PEMFCs performance and decrease its cost. In overall investigation a three dimensional steady state model are used for study the pin-type flow field using with the membrane thickness 0.054 mm and water transport coefficient 1.15cm2/sec. The parallel and serpentine membranes analysis data are used to compare with the pin-type membrane data, whereas compare with experimental data. The experimental data provide good approximation with pin-type, parallel and serpentine flow field. Therefore theoretical study is much useful when the experimental data are not available. So the theoretical data of PEM fuel cells are much necessary for design a new PEM fuel. The computation fluid dynamic (CFD) tool are used to monitoring its statically performance, whereas the CFD software are amazing tool and used to analysis and simulation the data. Overall study approaches to enhance the performance of PEMFCs, decreasing its cost and make it reliable as retail use.

Key-Words / Index Term :
PEMFC; Mathematical model; Flow field design; Electrochemical reaction; Membrane; Computational fluid dynamics.

References :
[1] C.Y. Jung, W.J. Kim, S.C. Yi, “Computational analysis of polarizations in membrane-electrode-assembly for proton exchange membrane fuel cells,” Journal of Membrane Science, Vol. 341, Issue 1-2, pp. 5-10, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2009.06.006
[2] P. Ahmadi, E. Kjeang, “Realistic simulation of fuel economy and life cycle metrics for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles,” International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 41, Issue 5, pp.714-727, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.3672
[3] J.D. Morse, “Micro fuel cell power sources,” International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 31, pp. 576-602, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.1281
[4] F. Barbir, S. Yazici, “Status and development of PEM fuel cell technology,” International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 32, Issue 5, pp. 369-378, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1002/er.1371
[5] S. Endoo, K. Pruksathorn, P. Piumsomboon, “Identification of the key variables in membrane electrode preparation for PEM fuel cells by a factorial design,” Renewable Energy, Vol. 35, Issue 4, pp. 807-813, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2009.10.013
[6] A.S.M. Al-Obaidi, T. Nguyen Huynh, “Renewable vs. conventional energy: which wins the race to sustainable development?,” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 434, Issue 3, pp. 012310, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/434/1/012310
[7] B.S. Machado, M. Mamlouk, N. Chakraborty, “Three-dimensional agglomerate model of an anion exchange membrane fuel cell using air at the cathode- A parametric study,” Journal Power Sources, Vol. 412, pp. 105-117, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.11.022
[8] H.A. Dhahad, W.H. Alawee, A.K. Hassan, “Experimental study of the effect of flow field design to PEM fuel cells performance,” Renewable Energy Focus, Vol. 30, pp. 71-77, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ref.2019.05.002
[9] C. Suarez, A. Iranzo, B. Toharias, F. Rosa, “Experimental and numerical Investigation on the design of a bio inspired PEM fuel cell,” Energy, Vol. 257, pp. 124799, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124799
[10] A.R. Vijay Babu, P.M. Kumar, G.S. Rao, “Parametric study of the proton exchange membrane fuel cell for investigation of enhanced performance used in fuel cell vehicles,” Alexandria Engineering Journal, Vol. 57, Issue 4, pp. 3953-3958, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2018.03.010
[11] M.M. Ibrahim Salem, R. Ali, H. Zhang, “Simplified mathematical model of proton exchange membrane fuel cell based on horizon fuel cell stack,” Journal Modified Power System Clean Energy, Vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 668-679, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40565-016-0196-5
[12] L. Placca, R. Kouta, “Fault tree analysis for PEM fuel cell degradation process modelling,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 36, Issue 19, pp. 12393-12405, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.06.093
[13] M. Chandran, K. Palaniswamy, N.B. Karthik Babu, O. Das, “A study of the influence of current ramp rate on the performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell,” Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, pp. 21888, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25037-0
[14] H. Rezk, T. Wilberforce, E.T. Sayed, Ahmed N.M. Alahmadid, A.G. Olabi, “Finding best operational conditions of PEM fuel cell using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system and metaheuristic,” Energy Reports, Vol. 8, pp. 6181-6190, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.04.061
[15] E. Afshari, “Computational analysis of heat transfer in a PEM fuel cell with metal foam as a flow field,” Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Vol. 139, pp. 2423-2434, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08354-x
[16] A. Sagar, S. Chugh, K. Sonkar, A. Sharma, E. Kjeang, “A computational analysis on the operational behaviour of open cathode polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 45, pp. 34125-34138, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.09.133
[17] T.E. Springer, T.A. Zawodzinski, S. Gottesfeld, “Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Model,” Journal of Electrochemical Society, Vol. 138, pp. 2334-2342, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1.2085971
[18] P.M. Kumar, A.K. Kolar, “Effect of cathode channel dimensions on the performance of an air-breathing PEM fuel cell,” International Journal of Thermal Science, Vol. 49, pp. 844-857, 2010. https://doi:10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2009.12.002
[19] W. Pen, P. Wang, X. Chen, F. Wang, G. Dai, “Combined effects of flow channel configuration and operating conditions on PEM fuel cell performance,” Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 220, pp. 113046, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2020.113046
[20] Y.M. Ferng, A. Su, “A three-dimensional full cell CFD model used to investigate the effects of different flow channel designs on PEMFC performance,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, pp. 4466–4476, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2007.05.012
[21] C. Mahjoubi, J.C. Olivier, S. Skander-mustapha, M. Machmoum, I. Slama-belkhodja, “An improved thermal control of open cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 44, Issue 22, pp. 11332–11345, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.11.055
[22] Z. Hu, L. Xu, J. Li, Q. Gan, X. Xu, M. Ouyang, Z. Song, J. Kim, “A multipoint voltage-monitoring method for fuel cell inconsistency analysis,” Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 177, pp. 572-581, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.09.077
[23] T. Reshetenko, A. Kulikovsky, “On the distribution of local current density along a PEM fuel cell cathode channel,” Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 101, pp. 35-38, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2019.02.005