Category: Guarded Heat Flow Meter
Author(s): M. M. Mench, Manish Khandelwal
Keywords: catalyst layer, diffusion media, dry nafion, Fuel cells, GHF, Guarded heat flow meter, Nafion membrane, polymers, thermal contact resistance, Through-Plane Thermal Conductivity, Toray carbon fiber paper
Abstract: The through-plane thermal conductivity of many components of a fuel cell, dry Nafion®, various diffusion medias and catalyst layers are studied. The thermal contact resistance between the diffusion media and a metal plate with respect to temperature and pressure was also determined. The measurements were made with a guarded heat flow meter device. The least accurate measurement was of the Toray carbon fiber paper diffusion media which displayed a value of 1.80 ± 0.27 Wm−1K−1.
Reference: Journal of Power Sources 161 (2006) 1106–1115
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2006.06.092