TY - GEN
T1 - Thermal Insulation Simulation of Small Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
AU - Fang, Zhifei
AU - Zhou, Jiaxu
AU - Deng, Huichao
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The 10 W air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is a cost-effective and readily available power source with a wide range of applications in daily and industrial production. However, due to cost and process limitations, low-cost and low-power air-cooled PEMFCs can only be stored in environments above 0 ℃, unlike PEMFCs for vehicles which can be stored and operated in temperatures as low as − 30 ℃. Overcoming the limitation of low-temperature storage and starting at 0 ℃ would significantly expand the application of air-cooled PEMFCs. Therefore, this study aims to propose a solution by introducing auxiliary heating to preserve and operate the stack in environments as low as − 10 ℃, making it applicable to most of the national application scenarios. To achieve this, a thermal model was developed to analyze the performance of a 10 W fuel cell stack operating at − 10 ℃. The results indicate that an insulation box can effectively minimize heat loss from the stack, and the use of two ceramic heating plates with a power output of 0.11 W can maintain the stack's minimum temperature above 0 ℃.
AB - The 10 W air-cooled proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is a cost-effective and readily available power source with a wide range of applications in daily and industrial production. However, due to cost and process limitations, low-cost and low-power air-cooled PEMFCs can only be stored in environments above 0 ℃, unlike PEMFCs for vehicles which can be stored and operated in temperatures as low as − 30 ℃. Overcoming the limitation of low-temperature storage and starting at 0 ℃ would significantly expand the application of air-cooled PEMFCs. Therefore, this study aims to propose a solution by introducing auxiliary heating to preserve and operate the stack in environments as low as − 10 ℃, making it applicable to most of the national application scenarios. To achieve this, a thermal model was developed to analyze the performance of a 10 W fuel cell stack operating at − 10 ℃. The results indicate that an insulation box can effectively minimize heat loss from the stack, and the use of two ceramic heating plates with a power output of 0.11 W can maintain the stack's minimum temperature above 0 ℃.
KW - Heat transfer simulation
KW - Insulation box
KW - Proton exchange membrane fuel cell
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85182519870
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-99-8581-4_26
DO - 10.1007/978-981-99-8581-4_26
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85182519870
SN - 9789819985807
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Physics
SP - 243
EP - 249
BT - Proceedings of the 10th Hydrogen Technology Convention, Volume 3 - WHTC 2023
A2 - Sun, Hexu
A2 - Pei, Wei
A2 - Dong, Yan
A2 - Yu, Hongmei
A2 - You, Shi
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 10th World Hydrogen Technology Convention, WHTC 2023
Y2 - 22 May 2023 through 26 May 2023
ER -