The development and characterisation of metallic Bipolar Plates (BPP) for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs)
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The development and characterisation of metallic Bipolar Plates (BPP) for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (PEFCs)
CoPED ID
71cd905f-9642-4c41-9368-47917cf99679
Status
Closed
Value
No funds listed.
Start Date
Sept. 30, 2017
End Date
Jan. 24, 2022
Description
Metallic bipolar plates, namely: stainless steel, aluminium and titanium, are being readily investigated as potential replacements to graphite based bipolar plates which suffer from poor mechanical strength and costly, time consuming manufacturing processes. While metallic bipolar plates can effectively resolve the issues encountered by graphite plates, they do however suffer from poor chemical stability in the polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell environment. Different coating materials have been employed to protect the metallic plates from the corrosion environment while also maintaining a low contact resistance between PEM fuel cell components, these coatings must also be economical.
| University of Birmingham | LEAD_ORG |
| Toyota Motor Europe | STUDENT_PP_ORG |
| Ahmad El-Kharouf | SUPER_PER |
| Liam Cooper | STUDENT_PER |
Subjects by relevance
- Fuel cells
- Corrosion
- Stainless steel
- Metals
- Titanium
- Aluminium
- Steel
- Surfacings (matter)
- Electrolytes
- Metal plates
- Electrochemistry
- Welding
- Manufacturing
- Suffering
Extracted key phrases
- Metallic bipolar plate
- Metallic plate
- Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells
- Graphite plate
- Pem fuel cell component
- Fuel cell environment
- Poor chemical stability
- Poor mechanical strength
- Different coating material
- Polymer electrolyte membrane
- Corrosion environment
- BPP
- Development
- Low contact resistance