화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Vol.36, No.2, 187-193, 2006
On efficiency of both single fuel cells and stacks II
The model developed in the first part of this work is used to predict the cell potentials and the irreversible Gibbs free energy of a stack of 15 cells. The model starts from a phenomenological equation of a polarization curve with the extent of reaction as the independent variable. Two extreme kinds of flow of reagents, defined as Chain and Separate Flows respectively, are considered. The cell potentials are obtained by a combination of the potential of the two extreme cases of flow. The stack cell potentials and the efficiencies, estimated by the model, reproduce the general characteristics obtained by the experiments.