Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam

This study focused on designing and simulating a suitable air cooling for fuel cell bipolar plate with power rating of 3kW. For 3kW application, normally the fuel cells uses water as a medium to remove the heat generated. Instead of using water, air is to be used as a cooling medium. Simulation work...

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Main Author:	Akam, Wimi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2009
Subjects:	Heat Heat in its applications, as a source of power, etc
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31333/1/31333.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.313332023-12-28T02:02:44Z Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam 2009 Akam, Wimi Heat. Heat in its applications, as a source of power, etc This study focused on designing and simulating a suitable air cooling for fuel cell bipolar plate with power rating of 3kW. For 3kW application, normally the fuel cells uses water as a medium to remove the heat generated. Instead of using water, air is to be used as a cooling medium. Simulation works are conducted to determine which design will gives the better result of heat transfer rate using air cooling. Two of the alternative design are zigzaged and inclined 2 degree channels. The lower the temperature at outlet will result in higher heat tansfer effeciency of the fuel cells. To obtain the result, two dimension steady state computational fluid dynamic analysis using two equation turbulence model ( k-c model). The work uses Star Design; an CFD software to estimate the temperature distribution at the surface of the bipolar plate. The result shows that design 2 which is having slightly inclined of 2 degree gives the most highest heat transfer rate. 2009 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31333/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31333/1/31333.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam Abdul Razak, Azli Wan Mohamed, Wan Ahmad Najmi
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Abdul Razak, Azli Wan Mohamed, Wan Ahmad Najmi
topic	Heat Heat in its applications, as a source of power, etc
spellingShingle	Heat Heat in its applications, as a source of power, etc Akam, Wimi Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
description	This study focused on designing and simulating a suitable air cooling for fuel cell bipolar plate with power rating of 3kW. For 3kW application, normally the fuel cells uses water as a medium to remove the heat generated. Instead of using water, air is to be used as a cooling medium. Simulation works are conducted to determine which design will gives the better result of heat transfer rate using air cooling. Two of the alternative design are zigzaged and inclined 2 degree channels. The lower the temperature at outlet will result in higher heat tansfer effeciency of the fuel cells. To obtain the result, two dimension steady state computational fluid dynamic analysis using two equation turbulence model ( k-c model). The work uses Star Design; an CFD software to estimate the temperature distribution at the surface of the bipolar plate. The result shows that design 2 which is having slightly inclined of 2 degree gives the most highest heat transfer rate.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Bachelor degree
author	Akam, Wimi
author_facet	Akam, Wimi
author_sort	Akam, Wimi
title	Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
title_short	Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
title_full	Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
title_fullStr	Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
title_full_unstemmed	Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam
title_sort	simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / wimi akam
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam
granting_department	Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam
publishDate	2009
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Simulation of heat transfer efficiency for novel air cooling channels of a fuel cell bipolar plate / Wimi Akam

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