TY - JOUR
T1 - The design and usage of a visual direct methanol fuel cell
AU - Nordlund, Joakim
AU - Picard, Cyril
AU - Birgersson, Erik
AU - Vynnycky, Michael
AU - Lindbergh, Göran
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - In order to better understand the influence of gas evolution on the performance of the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) anode, a visual DMFC, comprising of a transparent anode and a cathode endplate with an integrated heat exchanger, and a picture analysis methodology were developed. The result was an inexpensive, but very powerful, tool for analyzing the role of two-phase flow. An important finding is that gas bubbles do not appear uniformly throughout the fluid flow matrix, but rather only at a few active sites. Another important finding is that the gas saturation (volume fraction of gas/volume fraction of liquid) increases along the streamwise direction.
AB - In order to better understand the influence of gas evolution on the performance of the direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) anode, a visual DMFC, comprising of a transparent anode and a cathode endplate with an integrated heat exchanger, and a picture analysis methodology were developed. The result was an inexpensive, but very powerful, tool for analyzing the role of two-phase flow. An important finding is that gas bubbles do not appear uniformly throughout the fluid flow matrix, but rather only at a few active sites. Another important finding is that the gas saturation (volume fraction of gas/volume fraction of liquid) increases along the streamwise direction.
KW - Direct methanol fuel cell anode
KW - Gas evolution
KW - Porous medium
KW - Two-phase flow
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3242759850&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/B:JACH.0000035602.70278.0e
DO - 10.1023/B:JACH.0000035602.70278.0e
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3242759850
SN - 0021-891X
VL - 34
SP - 763
EP - 770
JO - Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
JF - Journal of Applied Electrochemistry
IS - 8
ER -
