Geometry optimization for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells with sequential quadratic programming method

Integration between COMSOL Multiphysics™ and MATLAB™ offers a useful option for the self-automated geometry optimization in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCS). It overcomes the difficulties of automatically re-generating high-quality computational meshes and subsequently running the simula...

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Published in:Journal of power sources Vol. 186; no. 1; pp. 10 - 21
Main Authors: Xing, Xiu Qing, Lum, Kah Wai, Poh, Hee Joo, Wu, Yan Ling
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 2009
Elsevier
Subjects:
Anodes
Applied sciences
Cathodes
Channels
Computer simulation
Electric potential
Energy
Energy. Thermal use of fuels
Equipments for energy generation and conversion: thermal, electrical, mechanical energy, etc
Exact sciences and technology
Fuel cells
Geometry optimization
Optimization
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell
Quadratic programming
Sequential quadratic programming method
Geometry optimization
Sequential quadratic programming method
Proton exchange membrane fuel cell
Geometry
Air breathing
Polymer electrolytes
Numerical simulation
Performance
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells
Optimization
ISSN:0378-7753, 1873-2755
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Summary:Integration between COMSOL Multiphysics™ and MATLAB™ offers a useful option for the self-automated geometry optimization in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCS). It overcomes the difficulties of automatically re-generating high-quality computational meshes and subsequently running the simulations to evaluate the objective function values using commercial software in computational fuel cell dynamics-based designs. Geometry optimization studies of an air-breathing PEMFC searching for the optimum channel ratio at the anode and the optimum open ratio at the cathode, are undertaken. A sequential quadratic programming method is selected to deal with the constrained design problems, while the objective functions are evaluated by running the three-dimensional simulation script of COMSOL™ under the MATLAB™ environment. Simulation results show that for the air-breathing PEM fuel cell operated at 353 K and one standard atmosphere pressure, when the anode channel ratio is fixed at 10%, the optimum cathode open ratios are very similar for the cell operated at voltages of 0.7 and 0.4 V, namely, 49.8% for 0.7 V and 49.5% for 0.4 V. When the cathode open ratio is set at 80% with a cell voltage of 0.7 V, the optimum anode channel ratio is found to be 34.7%.
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ISSN:0378-7753
1873-2755
DOI:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2008.09.096