Periodic Reporting for period 1 - HyPoStruct (A key breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: enhancing macroscopic mass transport properties by tailoring the porous microstructure)
Berichtszeitraum: 2019-01-09 bis 2021-01-08
The project aims at improving the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, by optimising the electrode performance, from a fluid-dynamic and water management perspective. The goal is to understand the mechanisms of water transport within fuel cells electrodes, in order to identify innovative optimal design that would allow a boost in fuel cells competitiveness and performance.This is desired technological step in order to speed up the transition to fossil-free transportation.
Results of this study have been published in:
Farzaneh, M., Ström, H., Zanini, F., Carmignato, S., Sasic, S., & Maggiolo, D. (2021). Pore-Scale Transport and Two-Phase Fluid Structures in Fibrous Porous Layers: Application to Fuel Cells and Beyond. Transport in Porous Media, 136(1), 245-270.
and have been disseminated at the following international scientific conferences:
The 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), held in Seattle, Washington on November 23-26, 2019
INTERNATIONAL COUPLED PROBLEMS 2019, ECCOMAS \& IACM 8th edition of the International CONFERENCES Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, 3-5 June 2019 in Sitges, Spain.
The 10th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 19-24, 2019