Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC)
Electrochemical Performance of Porous Ni-Cu Anodes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... of methanol by modifying the nanostructured metallic foams (NMFs) ...for direct methanol fuel cells containing platinum and platinum-ruthenium catalysts ...
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BARRIERS TO COMMERCIALIZATION OF PASSIVE DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS: A REVEIW
... of fuel cells, the direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) have attracted extensive interest from the research community and industry since its is simple in construction, which does ...
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Electrochemical Analysis of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells for Low Temperature Operation
... The electrochemical behaviour of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs) was investigated at low temperatures (30°C-60°C). An 85 wt% Pt-Ru (1:1 a/o)/C anode catalyst and a 60 wt% Pt/C cathode ...
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Novel Aminated Cellulose Acetate Membranes for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs)
... decreasing methanol permeability is the major challenge for the polyelectrolyte membranes for the direct methanol fuel cells ...and methanol solution was also ...and ...
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A Methanol Concentration Sensor Using Twin Membrane Electrode Assemblies for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... A methanol concentration sensor based on twin Nafion membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) was constructed with anodes face to face eliminating the interference of oxygen in ...the methanol crossing over ...
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Development of Fabrication Methods and Performance Analysis of Various Electrodes in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFCs)
... The significance of research methodology and the development of different nanostructured electrode catalysts for the study of direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) applications. In this article ...
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A promising Modification of Pt Surfaces with CNTs for Decreasing Poisoning Impact in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... Direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) are clean energy sources that have many applications due to the high energy density of methanol as a ...of fuel cells (FCs) has ...
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Platinum and Platinum Alloy-Carbon Nanofiber Composites for Use as Electrodes in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... from fuel cells, supercapacitor, hydrogen storage, field emission devices, to chemical/biological ...in direct methanol fuel cells, the methanol oxidation reaction (MOR) ...
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RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING OF MASS TRANSFER PHENOMENA IN DIRECT METHANOL FUEL CELLS OPERATING WITH CONCENTRATED FUEL
... concentrated fuel. Wu an Zhao (2011) found that at the neat-methanol operation, the water transport flux through the membrane was rather sensitive to the change in the mass-transfer resistance of the ...
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of the Flow Field of Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... Based on the previous analysis, the simulation results showed that SSFF1 with an optimum channel width of 2 mm had the best DMFC performance. The power densities of all simulated geometries were compared. Figure 26 shows ...
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The Non-Adiabatic Model of Air-Breathing Micro Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... energy, fuel cell is a very promising energy, because it has the advantages of high energy conversion efficiency, more environment friendly, low temperature and rapid start-up, easy to integration and so on ...The ...
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Review: An Overview of Recent Development of Platinum-Based Cathode Materials for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... the fuel utilization, but also degrades the cathode performance (excess cathode polarization), resulting in a significant decrease of the cathode potential and thus of the cell ...to methanol, ethanol, ...
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Performance analysis of nickel-coated stainless steel bipolar plates in direct methanol fuel cells
... of fuel, is a serious problem in ...measure methanol crossover in DMFC [5-10]. Hikita et al. determined methanol crossover rates by continuously measuring the concentration of CH3OH, CO and CO2 in ...
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Evaluation of ZrO2 Composite Membrane Operating at High Temperature (100 °C) in Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... the fuel cell performance due to the methanol crossover effect ...[4-6]. Methanol crossover not only lowers the fuel availability, but also the reduction of active sites on the cathode that ...
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Novel Bilayer Composite Membrane for Passive Direct Methanol Fuel Cells with Pure Methanol
... low methanol crossover and high water uptake composite membrane was developed by simply repeated ...lower methanol permeability for its unique selectivity between methanol and water ...lower ...
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Ni Modified MCM-41 as a Catalyst for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
... So far no work has been reported on the application of Ni modified MCM-41 catalyst as anodes for fuel cell applications. Although, it seems that Ni−MCM-41 would be a good catalyst for electrooxidation processes ...
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Evaluation of sulfonated tri-block copolymer/ Heteropoly acid composite membranes for fuel cell applications
... absorption, methanol absorption and methanol permeability values decreased with increasing ...membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) ...
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A blend of sulfonated polyether ether ketone and polyether ether sulfone for direct methanol fuel cell
... the cells, the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) looks to be an ideal power source for various household as well as industrial ...Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) offers a better power ...
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“Polymer Electrolyte Membrane and Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Technology”137-142
... Temperature Fuel Cells” Volume 2 consists of three parts: Part I entitled ‘Advanced Characterization Techniques for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells’, ...
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State of Research Developments in Direct Methanol Fuel cell
... transparent cells used in the visualization studies are constructed with a pair of stainless steel plates mated with a polycarbonate plate, forming a window to allow direct observation of flow ...
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