Electrode Ionomers for High Temperature Fuel Cells
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
HT-PEMFCs offer advantages over LT-PEMFCs because of their higher operating temperatures. These advantages include higher catalytic activity, higher tolerance to impurities, and easier thermal management. LANL, in collaboration with SNL, has developed phosphate-quaternary ammonium ionpair coordinated proton exchange membranes for use in HT-PEMFCs. Fuel cells made with the ion-pair membranes have the potential to be operated at temperatures above 200 °C, however there is a tendency for the phosphoric acid to evaporate from the electrodes at temperatures above 180 °C. Thus, there is a need to develop an ionomer that can conduct protons at high temperatures and which can be processed into MEAs. Such a polymer also needs to be extremely durable in order to function at low pH, low RH, high temperature conditions.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1573305
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2019-12745R; 680991
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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