Performance and degradation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells: State of the art in modeling from atomistic to system scale

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are energy efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional energy conversion systems in many yet emerging applications. In order to enable prediction of their performance and durability, it is crucial to gain a deeper understanding of t...

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Autores: Jahnke, T., Futter, G., Latz, A., Serra, Maria|||0000-0002-9885-8093
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86086
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86086
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.11.041
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Proton exchange membrane fuel cells
automation
proton exchange membrane fuel cells modeling
performance
degradation
Piles de combustible de membrana d'intercanvi de protons
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Energies
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Sumario:Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are energy efficient and environmentally friendly alternatives to conventional energy conversion systems in many yet emerging applications. In order to enable prediction of their performance and durability, it is crucial to gain a deeper understanding of the relevant operation phenomena, e.g., electrochemistry, transport phenomena, thermodynamics as well as the mechanisms leading to the degradation of cell components. Achieving the goal of providing predictive tools to model PEMFC performance, durability and degradation is a challenging task requiring the development of detailed and realistic models reaching from the atomic/molecular scale over the meso scale of structures and materials up to components, stack and system level. In addition an appropriate way of coupling the different scales is required.