Author(s)

Lei Shi, Minggang Zheng*

Affiliation(s)

School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, 250101, China

Corresponding Author

Minggang Zheng

ABSTRACT

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), as one of the ideal source, has attracted attention because of its advantages such as high efficiency, high specific energy and low pollution. Bipolar plate, the essential components of PEMFC, accounts for 60% of the weight of the cell. The design of flow field on bipolar plate has great influence on the performance of PEMFC, operation efficiency and manufacturing cost. In this paper, some common flow field such as multi-passes serpentine flow field, swivel flow field and parallel flow field are selected to analysis the changes of performance of PEMFC, trying to find the reasonable flow field of cathode and anode.

KEYWORDS

PEMFC; Flow field; Cathode and anode; Bipolar plate

CITE THIS PAPER

Shi Lei, Zheng Minggang. Numerical studies on flow field selection of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Eurasia Journal of Science and Technology. 2019, 1(1): 1-4.

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