Stress-life interrelationships associated with alkaline fuel cellsA review is presented concerning the interrelationships between applied stress and the expected service life of alkaline fuel cells. Only the physical, chemical, and electrochemical phenomena that take place within the fuel cell stack portion of an overall fuel cell system will be discussed. A brief review will be given covering the significant improvements in performance and life over the past two decades as well as summarizing the more recent advances in understanding which can be used to predict the performance and life characteristics of fuel cell systems that have yet to be built.
Document ID
19880024676
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Thaller, Lawrence H. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Martin, Ronald E. (NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Stedman, James K. (International Fuel Cells Corp. South Windsor, CT, United States)