Polarization loss correction derived from hydrogen local-resistance measurement in low Pt-loaded polymer-electrolyte fuel cells

Freiberg, Anna T. S.; Tucker, Michael C.; Weber, Adam Z.

doi:10.1016/j.elecom.2017.04.008

Title: Polarization loss correction derived from hydrogen local-resistance measurement in low Pt-loaded polymer-electrolyte fuel cells

Journal Article · Wed Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Electrochemistry Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2017.04.008· OSTI ID:1379865

Freiberg, Anna T. S. ^[1]; Tucker, Michael C. ^[2];

^[2]

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Technische Univ. Munchen, Garching (Germany)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The reduction of platinum-loading on the cathode side of polymer-electrolyte fuel cells leads to a poorly understood increase in mass-transport resistance (MTR) at high current densities. This local resistance was measured using a facile hydrogen-pump technique with dilute active gases for membrane-electrode assemblies with catalyst layers of varying platinum-loading (0.03-0.40 mgPt/cm²). Furthermore, polarization curves in H₂/air were measured and corrected for the overpotential caused by the increased MTR for low loadings on the air side due to the reduced concentration of reactant gas at the catalyst surface. The difference in performance after correction for all resistances including the MTR is minor, suggesting its origin to be diffusive in nature, and proving the meaningfulness of the facile hydrogen-pump technique for the characterization of the cathode catalyst layer under defined operation conditions.

View Accepted Manuscript (DOE)

View Accepted Manuscript (Publisher)

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Fuel Cell Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1379865

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1397971

Journal Information:: Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 79, Issue C; ISSN 1388-2481

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Citation Metrics:

Cited by: 22 works

Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (26)

The Impact of Platinum Loading on Oxygen Transport Resistance Greszler, Thomas A.; Caulk, David; Sinha, Puneet Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 159, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.061212jes	journal	January 2012
Unexplained transport resistances for low-loaded fuel-cell catalyst layers Weber, Adam Z.; Kusoglu, Ahmet J. Mater. Chem. A, Vol. 2, Issue 41 https://doi.org/10.1039/C4TA02952F	journal	January 2014
The Priority and Challenge of High-Power Performance of Low-Platinum Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Kongkanand, Anusorn; Mathias, Mark F. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00216	journal	March 2016
The Analysis of Performance Loss with Low Platinum Loaded Cathode Catalyst Layers Ono, Yoshitaka; Mashio, Tetsuya; Takaichi, Satoshi ECS Transactions, Vol. 28, Issue 27 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3496614	journal	April 2010
Analysis of Oxygen-Transport Diffusion Resistance in Proton-Exchange-Membrane Fuel Cells Nonoyama, Nobuaki; Okazaki, Shinobu; Weber, Adam Z. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 158, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3546038	journal	January 2011
Impact of Platinum Loading and Catalyst Layer Structure on PEMFC Performance Owejan, Jon P.; Owejan, Jeanette E.; Gu, Wenbin Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 160, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.072308jes	journal	January 2013
Measurement of Oxygen Transport Resistance in PEM Fuel Cells by Limiting Current Methods Baker, Daniel R.; Caulk, David A.; Neyerlin, Kenneth C. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 156, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3152226	journal	January 2009
Improved Pt-utilization efficiency of low Pt-loading PEM fuel cell electrodes using direct membrane deposition Breitwieser, Matthias; Klingele, Matthias; Britton, Benjamin Electrochemistry Communications, Vol. 60 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2015.09.006	journal	November 2015
Analysis of proton exchange membrane fuel cell catalyst layers for reduction of platinum loading at Nissan Ohma, Atsushi; Mashio, Tetsuya; Sato, Kazuyuki Electrochimica Acta, Vol. 56, Issue 28 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2011.04.058	journal	December 2011
Modeling Low-Platinum-Loading Effects in Fuel-Cell Catalyst Layers Yoon, Wonseok; Weber, Adam Z. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 158, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3597644	journal	January 2011
Modeling and Experimental Validation of Pt Loading and Electrode Composition Effects in PEM Fuel Cells Hao, Liang; Moriyama, Koji; Gu, Wenbin Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 162, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0221508jes	journal	January 2015
Achieving High-Power PEM Fuel Cell Performance with an Ultralow-Pt-Content Core–Shell Catalyst Kongkanand, Anusorn; Subramanian, Nalini P.; Yu, Yingchao ACS Catalysis, Vol. 6, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.5b02819	journal	February 2016
Gas Transport Resistance in Polymer Electrolyte Thin Films on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts Liu, Hang; Epting, William K.; Litster, Shawn Langmuir, Vol. 31, Issue 36 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b02487	journal	August 2015
New Insights into Perfluorinated Sulfonic-Acid Ionomers Kusoglu, Ahmet; Weber, Adam Z. Chemical Reviews, Vol. 117, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00159	journal	January 2017
Alternative Polymer Systems for Proton Exchange Membranes (PEMs) Hickner, Michael A.; Ghassemi, Hossein; Kim, Yu Seung Chemical Reviews, Vol. 104, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1021/cr020711a	journal	October 2004
Impact of Substrate and Processing on Confinement of Nafion Thin Films Kusoglu, Ahmet; Kushner, Douglas; Paul, Devproshad K. Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 30 https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201304311	journal	April 2014
Water Uptake and Interfacial Structural Changes of Thin Film Nafion® Membranes Measured by Neutron Reflectivity for PEM Fuel Cells Murthi, Vivek S.; Dura, Joseph; Satija, Sushil ECS Transactions, Vol. 16, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2981988	journal	August 2009
Self-Assembly and Transport Limitations in Confined Nafion Films Modestino, Miguel A.; Paul, Devproshad K.; Dishari, Shudipto Macromolecules, Vol. 46, Issue 3, p. 867-873 https://doi.org/10.1021/ma301999a	journal	January 2013
Investigating fuel-cell transport limitations using hydrogen limiting current Spingler, Franz B.; Phillips, Adam; Schuler, Tobias International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 42, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.01.036	journal	May 2017
Voltage Cycling Induced Losses in Electrochemically Active Surface Area and in H ₂ /Air-Performance of PEM Fuel Cells Zihrul, Patrick; Hartung, Ingmar; Kirsch, Sebastian Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 163, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0561606jes	journal	January 2016
Cathode Catalyst Utilization for the ORR in a PEMFC Neyerlin, K. C.; Gu, Wenbin; Jorne, Jacob Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 154, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2400626	journal	January 2007
Thin-film catalyst layers for polymer electrolyte fuel cell electrodes Wilson, M. S.; Gottesfeld, S. Journal of Applied Electrochemistry, Vol. 22, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01093004	journal	January 1992
Hydrogen Oxidation and Evolution Reaction Kinetics on Carbon Supported Pt, Ir, Rh, and Pd Electrocatalysts in Acidic Media Durst, Julien; Simon, Christoph; Hasché, Frédéric Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 162, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0981501jes	journal	November 2014
Determination of Electrode Sheet Resistance in Cathode Catalyst Layer by AC Impedance Liu, Yuxiu; Murphy, Michael; Baker, Daniel 212th ECS Meeting, ECS Transactions https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2780961	conference	January 2007
On the Determination of PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer Resistance from Impedance Measurement in H ₂ /N ₂ Cells Malevich, Dzmitry; Jayasankar, Barath Ram; Halliop, Ela Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 159, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.007301jes	journal	January 2012
Investigation of Proton Transport in the Catalyst Layer of PEM Fuel Cells by Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Cimenti, Massimiliano; Bessarabov, Dmitri; Tam, Mickey ECS Transactions, Vol. 28, Issue 23 https://doi.org/10.1149/1.3502346	journal	April 2010

Cited By (3)

Fuel-Cell Catalyst-Layer Resistance via Hydrogen Limiting-Current Measurements Schuler, Tobias; Chowdhury, Anamika; Freiberg, Anna T. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 166, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0031907jes	journal	January 2019
Multiwall Carbon Nanotube-Based Microporous Layers for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells Lee, J.; Banerjee, R.; George, M. G. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 164, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0861712jes	journal	January 2017
Impact of Carbon Support Corrosion on Performance Losses in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells Hegge, Friedemann; Sharman, Jonathan; Moroni, Riko Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Vol. 166, Issue 13 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0611913jes	journal	January 2019

Similar Records

Mass-transport properties of electrosprayed Pt/C catalyst layers for polymer-electrolyte fuel cells

Journal Article · Wed Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of Power Sources · OSTI ID:1379865

Conde, Julio J.; Folgado, M. Antonia; Ferreira-Aparicio, P.; +5 more

Synthesis and Characterization of Mixed-Conducting Corrosion Resistant Oxide Supports

Technical Report · Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2015 · OSTI ID:1379865

Ramani, Vijay K.

Modeling Water Management in Polymer-Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Book · Fri Sep 07 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · OSTI ID:1379865

Weber, Adam; Weber, Adam Z; Balliet, Ryan; +2 more

Related Subjects

30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION
Hydrogen fuel cell
PEFC
low Pt-loading
local resistance
polarization loss

Title: Polarization loss correction derived from hydrogen local-resistance measurement in low Pt-loaded polymer-electrolyte fuel cells

Citation Formats

References (26)

Cited By (3)

Similar Records

Related Subjects