Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate
This study presents a model that couples the thermal and structural analysis in a fuel cell bipolar plate. The fuel cell stack consists of unit cell of anode, membrane, and cathode connected in series through bipolar plates.The fuel cell operates at temperatures just below 100 °C, which means that it has to be heated at start-up. The heating process induces thermal stresses in the bipolar plates. The magnitude and nature of these stresses are studied in this model.
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von Mises stresses due to temperature and external loads. |
Engineering Fields
- Heating, Cooling & Phase Transfer in the Process Industry
- Linear Static Analysis
- Multiphysics
- Thermal Expansion
Application Areas
- Chemical Reaction Engineering
- Electrochemistry