- 연료전지 촉매층 내 촉매활성도에 대한 탄소지지 백금 촉매의 기하학적 비등방성 효과에 관한 연구
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- 신승호,김아름,정혜미,엄석기,Shin. Seungho,Kim. Ah-Reum,Jung. Hye-Mi,Um. Sukkee
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 한국정밀공학회지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2014년|31권 10호|pp.955-965 (11 pages)
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- 한국정밀공학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
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- 기타
Transport phenomena of reactant and product are directly linked to intrinsic inhomogeneous random configurations of catalyst layer (CL) that consist of ionomer, carbon-supported catalyst (Pt/C), and pores. Hence, electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) of Pt/C is dominated by geometrical morphology of mass transport path. Undoubtedly these ECSAs are key factor of total fuel cell efficiency. In this study, non-deterministic micro-scale CLs were randomly generated by Monte Carlo method and implemented with the percolation process. To ensure valid inference about Pt/C catalyst utilization, 600 samples were chosen as the number of necessary samples with 95% confidence level. Statistic results of 600 samples generated under particular condition (20vol% Pt/C, 30vol% ionomer, 50vol% pore, and 20nm particle diameter) reveal only 18.2%~81.0% of Pt/C can construct ECSAs with mean value of 53.8%. This study indicates that the catalyst utilization in fuel cell CLs cannot be identical notwithstanding the same design condition.