Hydrogen and proton exchange membrane fuel cells for clean road transportation

Fortunato Migliardini; Ottorino Veneri; Pasquale Corbo

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.17, No.3, 633-641, May, 2011

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2011.05.011 Export Citation

Hydrogen and proton exchange membrane fuel cells for clean road transportation

Fortunato Migliardini, Ottorino Veneri, and Pasquale Corbo^†

Istituto Motori, Italian National Research Council, Via G.Marconi, 8, 80125 Naples, Italy

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In this paper the main issues related to the working of hydrogen fuel cells and their utilization in the transportation field are presented and discussed, starting from the experimental analysis of dynamic performance of a laboratory fuel cell system based on a 20 kWe H2/air proton exchange membrane stack. The experiments were carried out on successive load steps characterized by low reactant relative pressures (15-50 kPa) and stack temperature of 310-350 K. The effect of air flow rate, hydrogen purge and membrane humidification strategy on stack output voltage was evaluated evidencing the role of different sub-systems in stack management (for reactant feeding, stack cooling, membrane humidification) and their effect on efficiency losses of the overall system. The results presented in this paper provide experimental indications about potentialities of hydrogen fuel cell systems as clean electric energy generators for automotive applications.

Keywords:Hydrogen;PEM fuel cell system;Hybrid electric vehicles;Clean transportation

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[Referenced By]

[1] Mason JE, Energy Policy, 35(2), 1315 (2007)

[2] Zoulias EI, Lymberopoulos N, Renew. Energy., 32, 680 (2007)

[3] Rostrup-Nielsen T, Catal. Today, 106(1-4), 293 (2005)

[4] Holladay JD, Hu J, King DL, Wang Y, Catal. Today., 139, 244 (2009)

[5] Damen K, van Troost M, Faaij A, Turkenburg W, Prog. Energy Combust., 32, 215 (2006)

[6] Satyapal S, Petrovic J, Read C, Thomas G, Ordaz G, Catal. Today, 120(3-4), 246 (2007)

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[8] Ross DK, Vacuum., 80, 1084 (2006)

[9] Dillon AC, Heben MJ, Appl. Phys. A., 72, 133 (2001)

[10] Dong J, Wang X, Xu H, Zhao Q, Li J, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy., 32, 4998 (2007)

[11] Hirscher M, Panella B, Scripta Mater., 56, 809 (2007)

[12] Granovskii M, Dincer I, Rosen MA, J. Power Sources, 157(1), 411 (2006)

[13] Granovskii M, Dincer I, Rosen MA, Int. J. Hydrogen Energy., 31, 337 (2006)

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[15] von Helmolt R, Eberle U, J. Power Sources, 165(2), 833 (2007)

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