Effect of hydrogen partial pressure on a polymer electrolyte fuel cell performance

Jae-Young Lee; Jiyong Joo; Jae Kwang Lee; Sunghyun Uhm; Eon Soo Lee; Jae Hyuk Jang; Nam-Ki Kim; Yong-Chul Lee; Jaeyoung Lee

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.27, No.3, 843-847, March, 2010

DOI10.1007/s11814-010-0141-7 Export Citation

Effect of hydrogen partial pressure on a polymer electrolyte fuel cell performance

Jae-Young Lee^{1, 2}, Jiyong Joo¹, Jae Kwang Lee¹, Sunghyun Uhm¹, Eon Soo Lee³, Jae Hyuk Jang³, Nam-Ki Kim², Yong-Chul Lee², and Jaeyoung Lee^{1, †}

¹Ertl Center for Electrochemistry and Catalysis, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 500-712, Korea
²Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
³Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., LTD., 314, Maetan3-dong, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 443-743, Korea

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We first investigated the effect of partial pressure of hydrogen (H2) on the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) by controlling the ratio of hydrogen and nitrogen (N2). The cell performance with Pt/C anode was significantly decreased with reduction of the partial pressure of H2 in the presence of carbon monoxide (CO), while the performance variation was negligible in the absence of CO. Severe CO poisoning on Pt/C electrode at low partial pressure of H2 might be attributed to the hindering effect by N2 and CO. On the other hand, PtRu/C anode showed consistent power performance even at low partial pressure of H2.

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