Electrocatalysis in alkaline media and alkaline membrane-based energy technologies

Y Yang, CR Peltier, R Zeng, R Schimmenti, Q Li… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen energy-based electrochemical energy conversion technologies offer the promise
of enabling a transition of the global energy landscape from fossil fuels to renewable energy …

Continuum modeling of porous electrodes for electrochemical synthesis

JC Bui, EW Lees, LM Pant, IV Zenyuk, AT Bell… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Electrochemical synthesis possesses substantial promise to utilize renewable energy
sources to power the conversion of abundant feedstocks to value-added commodity …

Membrane electrode assemblies for PEM fuel cells: A review of functional graded design and optimization

L **ng, W Shi, H Su, Q Xu, PK Das, B Mao, K Scott - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of platinum as a catalyst and the nonuniform distribution of current density inside a
membrane electrode assembly result in high cost and low durability, which strongly hinders …

[HTML][HTML] Integration of multi-physics and machine learning-based surrogate modelling approaches for multi-objective optimization of deformed GDL of PEM fuel cells

J Wang, H Jiang, G Chen, H Wang, L Lu, J Liu, L **ng - Energy and AI, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) greatly boosts scientific and engineering
innovation. As one of the promising candidates for transiting the carbon intensive economy …

A critical review of modeling transport phenomena in polymer-electrolyte fuel cells

AZ Weber, RL Borup, RM Darling, PK Das… - Journal of The …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Polymer-electrolyte fuel cells are a promising energy-conversion technology. Over the last
several decades significant progress has been made in increasing their performance and …

Multi-objective optimization of graded catalyst layer to improve performance and current density uniformity of a PEMFC

R Fan, G Chang, Y Xu, J Xu - Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The optimal use of compositions (platinum and ionomer) in cathode catalyst layers (CCLs) is
essential to enhance the performance and improve the current density uniformity of proton …

Impact of platinum loading and catalyst layer structure on PEMFC performance

JP Owejan, JE Owejan, W Gu - Journal of The Electrochemical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Reducing Pt in proton exchange membrane fuel cells is the subject of intense research and
development. Recently, researchers have observed significant performance loss due to a …

A lung-inspired approach to scalable and robust fuel cell design

P Trogadas, JIS Cho, TP Neville, J Marquis… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
A lung-inspired approach is employed to overcome reactant homogeneity issues in polymer
electrolyte fuel cells. The fractal geometry of the lung is used as the model to design flow …

Modeling of the effects of cathode catalyst layer design parameters on performance of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell

P He, YT Mu, JW Park, WQ Tao - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A comprehensive macroscopic three-dimensional multiphase non-isothermal polymer
electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) model coupled with an improved electrochemical …

Three-dimensional multi-phase model of PEM fuel cell coupled with improved agglomerate sub-model of catalyst layer

B **e, G Zhang, J Xuan, K Jiao - Energy Conversion and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
An improved agglomerate sub-model of catalyst layer (CL) involving actual agglomerate
size and oxygen local transport characteristics is developed and incorporated into a three …