Modelling and simulation of Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell with serpentine bipolar plate using MATLAB

Wilberforce, Tabbi; El-Hassan, Zaki; Khatib, F.N.; Makky, Ahmed Al; Baroutaji, Ahmad; Carton, J.G.; Thompson, J. F.; Olabi, Abdul–Ghani

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.06.091

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“…It was one of the critical issues that led to several political debates in recent elections (United States, 2016 and France, 2017). The high rate of depletion of the ozone layer and climatic changes continue to be a key determiner for the need for cleaner and environmentally friendly mode of energy generation [1][2][3]. Fossil commodities remain the highest form of energy generation but in the last decade have seen a sharp decline.…”

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Fuel cell membranes – Pros and cons

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This investigation provides a critical analysis of the development of PEM fuel cells and related research with specific focus on the membrane material. The catalytic membrane is the most important component of the PEMFC giving rise to the need for the use of efficient, durable and cheap material to reduce the overall cost of the fuel cell. In this work, the need for materials other than Nafion to be used as PEM membranes is established and a case for the use of composite membranes material in fuel cells is made. Composite membranes increase the cell voltage by up to 11% even at high cell operating temperature of 95°C. They also increase the overall performance of the cell by up to 17% when dry hydrogen is utilised.Non-fluorinated membranes are also suitable for use in fuel cells for portable applications but they are very expensive and less conductive. Partially fluorinated membranes have good mechanical stability but expensive. The fluorinated membrane has high stability under oxidation and reduction conditions. Unfortunately, they only reach their optimum performance at ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 1 temperatures below 100°C which makes them of limited use in PEM fuel cells application at higher temperatures.

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Fuel cell membranes – Pros and cons

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“…Hu et al [18] found that the flow rate had a large effect on the reactant concentration distribution in fuel cell. Wilberforce et al [19] found that increasing the cathode flow rate increased the fuel cell performance, since it relieved the water flooding. Andrew et al [20] found that the high flow rate increased the local current density under the land and channel areas in the fuel cell.…”

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Experimental Studies of Effect of Land Width in PEM Fuel Cells with Serpentine Flow Field and Carbon Cloth

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Flow field plays an important role in the performance of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, such as transporting reactants and removing water products. Therefore, the performance of a PEM fuel cell can be improved by optimizing the flow field dimensions and designs. In this work, single serpentine flow fields with four different land widths are used in PEM fuel cells to study the effects of the land width. The gas diffusion layers are made of carbon cloth. Since different land widths may be most suitable for different reactant flow rates, three different inlet flow rates are studied for all the flow fields with four different land widths. The effects of land width and inlet flow rate on fuel cell performance are studied based on the polarization curves and power densities. Without considering the pumping power, the cell performance always increases with the decrease in the land width and the increase in the inlet flow rates. However, when taking into consideration the pumping power, the net power density reaches the maximum at different combinations of land widths and reactant flow rates at different cell potentials.

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“…MATLAB [5] or Octave [6]) sit beside highly focused and domain-specific applications [7]. MATLAB is a powerful general-purpose tool and widely employed to solve the scientific and engineering problems [8], including modeling and simulation [9][10][11][12][13]. However, using MATLAB on the cloud need MATLAB Distributed Computing Server license, which is very expensive, depending on the number of nodes used (See the white paper [14] for the detail of installation, configuration, and setting up clustered environments using licensed products from MathWorks on Amazon EC2).…”

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Cloud-based Geophysical Inversion Modeling Using GNU Octave and MatlabMPI on Amazon EC2

2017

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Abstract-Computer modeling and simulation can be very demanding in terms of computational resources. Cloud computing has opened up new avenues for the scientific researchers with limited resources to do complicated simulation. In order to investigate whether cloud computing is suitable for modeling and simulation, we first describe how to build a cloud-based modeling and simulation platform using GNU Octave and MatlabMPI on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Then, we evaluation its performance taking the geophysical inversion modeling as an example. The results show that the cloudbased modeling and simulation platform is suitable for basic modeling for free. It can provide much more higher performance with acceptable price. Furthermore, we can cut down the cost by employing the Spot instance without losing the computation performance.

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Modelling and simulation of Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell with serpentine bipolar plate using MATLAB

Cited by 86 publications

References 48 publications

Fuel cell membranes – Pros and cons

Fuel cell membranes – Pros and cons

Experimental Studies of Effect of Land Width in PEM Fuel Cells with Serpentine Flow Field and Carbon Cloth

Cloud-based Geophysical Inversion Modeling Using GNU Octave and MatlabMPI on Amazon EC2

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