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FUEL CELLS
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 45-51Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/fuce.200700008
Keywords
carbon black; carbon fibre; natural graphite; percolation threshold; reinforcement; synthetic graphite
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The bipolar plate is one of the most imperative components of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) which consumes up to 80% of weight and near about 50% of the total cost of the cell. Development of cost-effective composite bipolar plate with high electrical conductivity and high mechanical strength is both technically and economically demanding. In this paper, a low-cost advanced composite bipolar plate is developed by bulk moulding compression (BMC) technique. It is clear from the experiments that by increasing the matrix volume fraction, bulk density and electrical conductivity of a composite bipolar plate decrease but shore hardness increases. Test results clearly show that best overall properties are achieved when a constant volume fraction of polymer matrix and natural graphite is reinforced with synthetic graphite, carbon black and carbon fibre. This bipolar plate was found to have high conductivity, less porosity and high mechanical strength. The I-V characteristics in single cell test exhibited more uniform power density at both higher and lower current densities
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