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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 164, Issue 2, Pages F154-F162Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0991702jes
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- NSERC Discovery Accelerator Program
- NSERC Canada Research Chairs Program
- Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- William Dunbar Memorial Scholarship in Mechanical Engineering
- Mercedes-Benz Canada Graduate Fellowship for Fuel Cell Research
- Ara Mooradian Scholarship
- Mercedes-Benz Canada Graduate Fellowship in Fuel Cell Research
- HATCH Graduate Scholarship
- David Sanborn Scott & Ron D. Venter Fellowship
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship
- University of Toronto Mary H. Beatty Fellowship
- University of Toronto
- Pierre Rivard Hydrogenics Graduate Fellowship
- David Sanborn Scott Fellowship
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- University of Saskatchewan
- Government of Saskatchewan
- Western Economic Diversification Canada
- National Research Council Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- CLS Post-Doctoral and Graduate Student Travel Support Program
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In this work, in-operando synchrotron X-ray radiography was used to capture the changes in the liquid water saturation of gas diffusion layers (GDLs) during changes in operating current density. Through in-operando visualizations at high temporal and spatial resolutions, we observed that the liquid water saturation increased with increasing current density. Eventually, a threshold water content in the GDL was reached despite further increases in current density. A time lag between the change in current density and the onset of increasing GDL water content was also observed. Current density consistently reached a steady state value before the GDL water content reached steady state, and the trends in liquid water distributions in the MPL were distinct from, yet influential to the accumulation in the substrate. We present a logarithmic growth function that describes the dynamic changes in GDL water content. The formulation of the GDL liquid water content transient response to changes in operating conditions provides a new metric for designing next generation fuel cell powertrains with fast dynamic responses. Through plane water thickness profiles were also used to show that the water accumulation patterns continued to evolve for up to 15 minutes at the low current density. (C) 2017 The Electrochemical Society.
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