Energy Storage Performance of Hydrogen Fuel Cells Operating in a Marine Salt Spray Environment using Experimental Evaluation

分类： 能源科学 >> 储能技术 提交时间： 2024-03-31

Xiaofei Wen Dandan Zhu Anna Hnydiuk-Stefan Z. Ma Grzegorz Królczyk Z. Li

摘要： This work experimentally explores the influence of thesodiumchloride pollution on thePEMFC performancein the marine saltsprayenvironment by analyzing the concentration diffusion characteristics of the sodium chloride in thePEMFC membraneelectrodes. Firstly, a set of experiments were carried out to determine the distribution of the sodium chloride components in the membrane electrodes, where five different salt spray environments (i.e., 100mg/L, 200mg/L, 300mg/L, 400mg/L, and 500mg/L of the salt component, respectively) were used/employed to analyze the concentration diffusion characteristics of the sodium chloride. Then, the obtained samples were microscopically characterized and elementally analyzed by thefield emission scanning electron microscopy(FESEM) and the energy spectrometry. Subsequently, a least squares-based model was proposed to predict the diffusion rate of the contaminatingions inthe membrane electrodes. Lastly, the pollution of the sodium chloride was evaluated/assessed to reveal theperformance degradationof the PEMFCs. The experimental results demonstrated that (1) the sodium chloride fraction existed as crystals orions inthe membrane electrodes in the marine salt spray environment; (2) the sodium chloride poisoning was founded in theproton exchange membranein the form ofsodium ions; (3) and the sodium-to-chloride ratio was proportional to the contamination time and the salt spray in the proton exchange membrane.

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