Oxygen ion transport through the electrolyte in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Thermal Sensors

“…Multi-sensor nodes have been shown to be useful for wide-area monitoring and control for operation of re-configurable solar photo-voltaic systems (Patnaik et al 2014;Patnaik et al 2012;Patnaik et al 2011), smart power-grids (Duan 2012), and for chemical plume monitoring in remote and possibly hostile environments ). The design of M-PEMFC was implemented based on a 3-D model using a COMSOL Multi-physics simulation platform (Patil et al 2013;Dimble et al 2011;Ramesh et al 2012;Ramesh et al 2011). The membrane (electrolyte) is commercially available form of Poly-Tetra-Fluoro-Ethylene (PTFE).…”

“…The current collectors are arranged in a distributed fashion (Mitra et al 2013;Patil et al 2013;Mitra et al 2012; Ramesh et al 2011;Lin et al 2008). It has been observed that a number of small area cells connected in parallel is superior to a single large area cell (Ramesh 2014).…”

“…The effect of air-borne contaminants on long-term fuel cell performance has been reported (Patil et al 2014;Ramesh et al 2013). Fuel starvation conditions have been carefully analyzed (Patil et al 2013;Ramesh et al 2011;Modav et al 2006) and mitigation strategies (Mitra et al 2012) have been proposed. The presence of local hotspots in the membrane electrode assembly can lead to irreversible degradation (Mitra et al 2012).…”