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International Heat Transfer Conference 12
August, 18-23, 2002, Grenoble, France

Effects of Heat and Mass Transfer Enhancements on PEM Fuel Cell Performances

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6 pages

Résumé

A modeling comparison of the heat and mass transfer in PEM fuel cell with conventional and interdigitated flow field designs is performed. The modeling results clearly indicates that, when the pressuredrop penalty is omitted, the interdigiated flow field is superior over the conventional one in both power output and thermal management. The limiting current density of a fuel cell with an interdigitated flow field can be as large as 2-3 times of that with a conventional flow field. The temperature distribution is also more uniform which leads to a lower maximum temperature and better thermal management.