甲醇
传质
直接甲醇燃料电池
催化作用
阴极
化学工程
分析化学(期刊)
扩散
水蒸气
化学
材料科学
扩散层
功率密度
甲醇燃料
甲醇重整装置
色谱法
图层(电子)
复合材料
热力学
功率(物理)
蒸汽重整
有机化学
电极
物理
工程类
物理化学
阳极
制氢
作者
Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Enas Taha Sayed,Nobuyoshi Nakagawa
出处
期刊:Energy
[Elsevier]
日期:2020-10-01
卷期号:209: 118492-118492
被引量:48
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2020.118492
摘要
Passive direct methanol fuel cell (pDMFC) has attracted the attention of scientists due to its high energy density. Under passive operating conditions, the properties of the diffusion layer significantly affect cell performance. In this study, the effect of the surface morphology, structure, permeability of diffusion layers (PTFE-treated carbon paper (CP) or carbon cloth (CC)) on the catalyst utilization, methanol, water fluxes, Faraday efficiency, and current discharge in pDMFC were investigated in liquid and vapor feed pDMFCs. Although catalyst utilization using the CP was higher than that using CC, the performance using the latter was enhanced in both liquid and vapor methanol feed. In liquid feed pDMFC, the optimum methanol concentration in the case of CC was 4 M, giving a power of 31 mW/cm2 compared to an optimum of 2 M and a power of 27 mW/cm2 in the case of CP. Although CP and CC have the same hydrophobicity, water droplet detachment from the cathode surface was easier in the case of CC compared to CP. In vapor feed pDMFC, using 100 wt% methanol at 0.25 V, the steady-state performance (29 mW/cm2) using CC was 190% of that using CP. Under active operation conditions, the performance of cell using CP is better than that using the CC due to the high catalyst utilization and the limited mass transfer effect.
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