Experimental study on different preheating methods for the cold-start of PEMFC stacks

Effects of Endplate Assembly on Cold Start Performance of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Stacks

“…[9,10] A great number of experimental studies have been conducted to investigate the cold start performance and characteristics of PEMFCs. The focus has been placed on the visualization of ice formation, [11][12][13] optimization of loading strategy, [14] and analysis of starting-up conditions, [15][16][17] flow-field design, [18,19] and tailoring of fuel cell materials. [20][21][22][23][24][25] Cold start models have also been developed for single cells and stacks to gain a better understanding of the start-up process.…”

Improvement of cold start performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cell using microporous and gas diffusion layers with patterned wettability

“…Compared with other methods, such as choosing the appropriate material or changing the fuel cell design, the effect of purging is not obvious. Zhan et al 12 simultaneously adopted three different heating methods of preheating air, preheating coolant, and preheating end plate to solve the cold start problem of the PEFC stack. The experimental results showed that the heating end plate method could help the cell to start more quickly.…”

Application of the meta‐heuristics for optimizing exergy of a HT‐PEMFC

“…14,15 Due to the low level of PEMFC power, for achieving high power energy, they usually integrated parallel in a stack. 2,16 The efficiency of the PEMFC is determined by several parameters, like pressure, temperature, O 2 , and H 2 concentrations, relative humidity, and mass flow rate. There are several advantages and disadvantages for the PEM fuel cell.…”

“…Recently, several theoretical and empirical techniques have been analyzed for PEMFCs . Due to the low level of PEMFC power, for achieving high power energy, they usually integrated parallel in a stack . The efficiency of the PEMFC is determined by several parameters, like pressure, temperature, O 2 , and H 2 concentrations, relative humidity, and mass flow rate.…”