An improved hydrophobic coating for the porous gas diffusion layer in a PEM-based electrochemical hydrogen pump to mitigate anode flooding
•Anode flooding is a critical issue of PEM-based electrochemical hydrogen pump.•Coating the gas diffusion media with Ag-HDFT renders it super-hydrophobic.•The coating effectively eliminated the anode flooding issue. Anode flooding is a critical issue in proton exchange membrane (PEM)-based electroch...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Electrochemistry communications 2020-08, Vol.117, p.106777, Article 106777 |
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Zusammenfassung: | •Anode flooding is a critical issue of PEM-based electrochemical hydrogen pump.•Coating the gas diffusion media with Ag-HDFT renders it super-hydrophobic.•The coating effectively eliminated the anode flooding issue.
Anode flooding is a critical issue in proton exchange membrane (PEM)-based electrochemical hydrogen pumps. Water-proofing the gas diffusion layer (GDL) on the anode side is a highly effective approach to mitigate the flooding problem and to enhance hydrogen pump performance. In this study, we report a low-cost, wet chemical process for water-proofing a metallic GDL. Silver particles, used as roughening and bonding agents, were first deposited on the porous metallic gas diffusion medium, and then heptadecafluoro-1-decanethiol (HDFT) was applied as a hydrophobic surface modifier. The result was a super-hydrophobic porous metallic GDL. Real electrochemical pump cell tests under simulated flooding conditions revealed that the water management performance of the coated GDL was dramatically improved. |
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ISSN: | 1388-2481 1873-1902 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.elecom.2020.106777 |