電池堆(stack)體積主要來自雙極板,厚度的減少,可有效地降低電池堆的尺寸。本研究主要是降低電池堆體積,配合新商構MEA較佳的性能(在0.2V約有140 mW cm-2),明顯提升單位體積的發電功率。使用氧氣當燃料時,在1.4V下,電池堆的單位體積可達57 mW cm-3發電功率;空氣則有38 mW cm-3發電功率。長時間穩定性結果,可知燃料分配供給的均勻程度相當好。使用固定較佳的操作條件初步實驗不同負載下的甲醇消耗與水穿透結果得知,甲醇穿透量不受負載電流的影響,約為0.166 cc/min,而水穿透部份,在陰、陽極兩端的驗證計算,其穿透量隨著電流增加而增加,可作為日後系統水回收參考。
The volume of stack is mainly from thickness of the bipolar plate. The research aims to reduce the volume of the stack, design new flow channel and make use of new commercial MEA(140mWcm-2 at 0.2V) to promote the performance of the stack. The result of new design showed that stack performance of 57mWcm-3 at 1.4V when using oxygen as reactant and 38mWcm-3 at 1.4V when using air as reactant. The ability of distributing fuel was fine under observing stability during long time. Fixing operating condition and testing different loading current was to observe the consumption of methanol and water crossover. The result showed that the methanol crossover was not affected by loading current, and the value of crossover was about 0.166cc/min. For water crossover, the value of crossover arose along with the loading of current increasing.