Structural and Wetting Properties of Fuel Cell Components

STRUCTURAL AND WETTING PROPERTIES OF FUEL CELL COMPONENTS  

Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Moscow, Russia 

Anderson et al. (2010) discuss complexity in water management of PEMFCs due to the presence of two-phase gas-liquid flows in gas channels from 

Fuel Cells Problems and Solutions, Second Edition. Vladimir S. Bagotsky. 

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Volfkovich, Y.M., Sosenkin, V.E., and Bagotsky, V.S. (2010) Structural and wetting properties of fuel cell components. 

The first edition of this book was published in December 2008. This second edition is updated with information published after this date up to October 2011. Two chapters of the first edition were rewritten Chapter 15 (modeling of fuel cells) and Chapter 14—now Chapter 17 (small fuel cells for portable devices). In this edition three new chapters of high current interest are also included Chapter 14 (structural and wetting properties of fuel cell components). Chapter 16 (experimental methods for fuel cell stacks), and Chapter 18 (nonconventional design principles for fuel cells). 

For a better understanding of all processes that influence fuel cell efficiency, for mathematical modeling of these processes, and for the possibility of their optimization, a detailed knowledge of the geometric structure and the wetting (hydrophobic-hydrophilic) properties of all MEA components is necessary. 

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