TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rost, Ulrich
A1  - Brodmann, Michael
A1  - Serban, Viorel-Aurel
A1  - Mutascu, Cristian
A1  - Roth, Jeffrey
A1  - Zekorn, Bruno
T1  - State of the Art of PEM Fuel Cells with a Focus on a Modular Fuel Cell Stack with Hydraulic Compression
T2  - Scientific bulletin of the "politehnica" university of Timisoara, Romania. Transactions on mechanics
N2  - This report gives a brief overview to the state of the art of PEM fuel cell technology and a description of a newly developed fuel cell stack concept. One main research activity at the Westphalian Energy Institute of the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences is the development of PEM fuel cells, for which a range of different materials have been investigated for fuel cell pole plate construction. Whereas graphite is a material which has suitable properties concerning conductivity as well as manufacturing e.g. for milling, stainless steel foils are suitable for economical hydroforming processes. However, with steel coating is necessary to increase corrosion resistance as well as electrical conductivity. A new fuel cell stack design is currently under development using separated single fuel cells with hydraulic cell compression. The advantages of this stack concept are modularity, effective heat exchanging and constant, uniform cell compression which are further described in this work.
KW  - PEM fuel cell
KW  - modular stack design
KW  - hydraulic compression
KW  - Polymer-Elektrolytmembran-Brennstoffzelle
KW  - Stack <Brennstoffzelle>
Y1  - 2012
UR  - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/755
VL  - 57 (71)
IS  - 2
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  -