@article{27332,
  author = {Anthony D Santamaria and Maxwell K Becton and Nathanial J Cooper and Adam Z Weber and Jae Wan Park},
  title = {Effect of cross-flow on PEFC liquid-water distribution: An in-situ high-resolution neutron radiography study},
  abstract = {<p>Liquid-water management in polymer-electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs) remains an area of ongoing research. To enhance water removal, certain flow-fields induce cross-flow, or flow through the gas-diffusion layer (GDL) via channel-to-channel pressure differences. While beneficial to water removal, cross-flow comes at the cost of higher pumping pressures and may lead to membrane dehydration and other deleterious issues. This paper examines the impact of cross-flow on component saturation levels as determined through in-plane high-resolution neutron radiography. Various humidities and operating conditions are examined, and the results demonstrate that cell saturation levels correlate strongly with the level of cross-flow rate, and lower GDL saturation levels are found to correlate with an increase in permeability at higher flow rates. Effective water removal is found to occur at channel-to-channel pressure gradients greater than the measured breakthrough pressure of the GDL, evidence that similar liquid-water transport mechanisms exist for under-land area transport as in transverse GDL flow.</p>},
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Journal of Power Sources},
  volume = {293},
  pages = {162 - 169},
  month = {10/2015},
  issn = {03787753},
  doi = {10.1016/j.jpowsour.2015.05.016},
}