This work represents a step towards reliable algorithms for reconstructing the micromorphology of electrode materials of high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells and for performing pore-scale simulations of fluid flow (including rarefaction effects). In particular, we developed a deterministic model for a woven gas diffusion layer (GDL) and a stochastic model for the catalyst layer (CL) based on clusterization of carbon particles. We verified that both of the models developed accurately recover the experimental values of the permeability, without any special ad hoc tuning. Moreover, we investigated the effect of catalyst particle distributions inside the CL on the degree of clusterization and on the microscopic fluid flow, which is relevant for the modeling of degradation (e.g. loss of phosphoric acid). The three-dimensional pore-scale simulations of the fluid flow for the direct numerical calculation of the permeability were performed by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).

Pore-scale modeling of fluid flow through gas diffusion and catalyst layers for high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells / Salomov, Uktam; Chiavazzo, Eliodoro; Asinari, Pietro. - In: COMPUTERS & MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 0898-1221. - STAMPA. - 67:(2014), pp. 393-411. [10.1016/j.camwa.2013.08.006]

Pore-scale modeling of fluid flow through gas diffusion and catalyst layers for high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cells

SALOMOV, UKTAM;CHIAVAZZO, ELIODORO;ASINARI, PIETRO
2014

Abstract

This work represents a step towards reliable algorithms for reconstructing the micromorphology of electrode materials of high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells and for performing pore-scale simulations of fluid flow (including rarefaction effects). In particular, we developed a deterministic model for a woven gas diffusion layer (GDL) and a stochastic model for the catalyst layer (CL) based on clusterization of carbon particles. We verified that both of the models developed accurately recover the experimental values of the permeability, without any special ad hoc tuning. Moreover, we investigated the effect of catalyst particle distributions inside the CL on the degree of clusterization and on the microscopic fluid flow, which is relevant for the modeling of degradation (e.g. loss of phosphoric acid). The three-dimensional pore-scale simulations of the fluid flow for the direct numerical calculation of the permeability were performed by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM).
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