...Wei Xing; Shouyang Dai; Akeel Shah; Linchang Luo; Qian Xu; Puiki Leung Neural network models have a long history in fuel cell and battery modelling. With the recent advent of deep learning, there is potential for further improvements in these models. On the other hand, deep learning is primarily...

.... Chemical stability, mechanical abrasion resistance, surface conductivity, and corrosion resistance in a simulated proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) environment are significantly higher for copper coated by Co–G-SA film. Because the copper coated with Co–G-SA has a low interfacial contact...

...Pegah Mottaghizadeh; Mahshid Fardadi; Faryar Jabbari; Jack Brouwer In this study, an islanded microgrid system is proposed that integrates identical stacks of solid oxide fuel cell and electrolyzer to achieve a thermally self-sustained energy storage system. Thermal management of the solid oxide...

...Morio Tomizawa; Keisuke Nagato; Kohei Nagai; Akihisa Tanaka; Marcel Heinzmann; André Weber; Gen Inoue; Masayuki Nakao Micropatterns applied to proton exchange membranes can improve the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells; however, the mechanism underlying this improvement is yet...

...Kayoung Park; Yuting Wei; Magnus So; Tae Hyoung Noh; Naoki Kimura; Yoshifumi Tsuge; Gen Inoue The structure of the cathode catalyst layer (CCL) is critically important for improving the performance, durability, and stability of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). In this study, we designed CCLs...

... perturbations. The main contribution of this article is the design of a robust passivity-based sliding mode control scheme for a 1.26 KW proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). The uncertainties considered in this article are temperature and load variation. The fuel cell (FC) reference current is adapted...

...Shuiyun Shen; Ziwen Ren; Silei Xiang; Shiqu Chen; Zehao Tan; Huiyuan Li; Junliang Zhang Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is a crucial route for energy saving, emission reduction, and the development of new energy vehicles because of its high power density, high energy density, as well...

...Nathaniel Metzger; Archana Sekar; Jun Li; Xianglin Li The gas flow of carbon dioxide from the catalyst layer (CL) through the microporous layer (MPL) and gas diffusion layer (GDL) has great impacts on the water and fuel management in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). This work has developed...

...Jinghui Jiang; Xianda Sun Constructing the ordered catalyst layer is one of the most effective strategies to maximize the catalyst utilization in direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs). To gain insight into the mass and charge transports in ordered catalyst layer, herein, a two-dimensional two-phase...

...Chen Li; Xiaoming Xu; Hao Hu; Nan Mei; Yi Yang The electrochemical reaction inside a high-power fuel cell generates a lot of heat. Excessive heat affects the performance of the membrane, so it is necessary to introduce coolant. The main objective of coolant is regulating the temperature...

... and air saturation. And the biofuel cell shows high stability to the condition. After 60 days of periodic storage experiments, the performance of the enzymatic biofuel cell still maintained 90.3% of its electrochemical performance. Enzymatic fuel cells (EFCs) are one type of biofuel cell that utilize...

...Sandile Surprise Gwebu; Thabo Matthews; Wendy Nobanathi Maxakato The severe corrosion of carbon supports in harsh fuel cell conditions has attracted the development of ceramic-based catalyst supports. Platinum nanoparticles supported on the carbon nanodots (CNDs)-titania (TiO 2 ) composite were...

...Xiuyu Sun; Zhenwei Wang Carbon fiber paper (CFP) is currently the main product of the macroporous substrate (MPS) for the gas diffusion layer (GDL) of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The optimization of certain mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, air...

...Ryan J. Milcarek; Michael J. Garrett; Thomas S. Welles; Rhushikesh Ghotkar; Jeongmin Ahn Despite many efforts and improvements over the last few decades, two of the major challenges facing solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are slow heating rates to operating temperature (typically < 5 °C · min −1...

..., the researcher’s challenge is to identify the most efficient and economical energy conversion method to provide a viable replacement for the ongoing conventional energy converters. In this context, fuel cell technology (solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs)) can play a key role and convert hydrocarbon energy...

... the catalytic performance-based issues by constructing more active sites which are possibly favorable for facile ORR kinetics [ 27 ]. Electrocatalysts are playing an important role to ascertain the efficiency of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline fuel cells (AFC). The major obstacles are the cost...

...Ryan J. Milcarek; Jeongmin Ahn Porous buffer layers for anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) have been investigated for many years with different thicknesses of the buffer layer in each study. In this work, micro-tubular SOFCs having samarium-doped ceria (SDC) and gadolinium-doped ceria...

...@uspcase.nust.edu.pk 22 11 2019 06 05 2020 15 05 2020 25 06 2020 Cu/ZIF-67 electrocatalysis fuel cells metal–organic frameworks (MOF) oxygen reduction reaction ZIF-67 electrochemical storage For a long time, developments in energy and emerging technologies have provided much...

... and composition as well as the electronic effect between the TiO 2 /NDC and Pt. This electrocatalyst holds great promise for application in direct methanol fuel cells. Email: junzhang@cqust.edu.cn Email: 819167149@qq.com Email: 1799434211@qq.com Email: 2328073465@qq.com Email: devid14@163.com...

...Benjamin Emley; Dhruba Panthi; Yanhai Du; Yan Yao Precise porosity control is highly desirable for improving the electrochemical performance of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Freeze casting is an established method for enabling high bulk porosity in structures and controlling pore orientation...