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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
INFLUENCE OF ELECTRODE FLOW CHANNEL CHANGES ON THE EFFICIENCY OF POLYMER ELECROLYTE FUEL CELL
Submission Author:
Thiago Moreno , RJ
Co-Authors:
Raphael Pereira da Silva, Maxmiller Laviola, Carlos Felipe Campos, Fábio José Bento Brum, Thiago Moreno
Presenter: Thiago Moreno
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-1479
Abstract
Growing concern about environmental impacts and the depletion of fossil fuel sources has motivated the research of new forms of energy derived from renewable sources. In this context, in which the main focus is to mitigate the environmental pressures, this article presents as an option the use of fuel cell technology, that obtains water and energy from gases such as hydrogen and oxygen and don’t generate pollutants during the process. This paper analyzes the influence of electrode flow channel changes on the efficiency of polymer electrolyte fuel cell. The research methodology integrates computational fluid dynamic (CFD) and design of experiments (DOE) with the objective of approaching and quantifying operational parameters of greater relevance for cell efficiency with different profiles of flow channels of the electrodes. For this reason, it carries out a comparative study between different fields of flow acting on the anodes and cathodes flow channel changes and setup.
Keywords
Fuel Cell, Computational Fluid Dynamic, design of experiments, flow channel
