The big market now is available in portable electronics such as mobile phones, PDAs and laptop computers. Several companies such as Samsung, Toshiba and Panasonic are developing portable direct methanol fuel cells, as one of the best approaches to small fuel cell systems and a considerable amount of research is being conducted in this area.
The goal of this work is to design and develop a new fuel cell cooling system based on heat pipe concept. New and original heat pipe approach is done based on the Luikov Institute heat pipe activity. The suggested cooling system based on heat pipe phenomena could be considered as a new approach to solve the above mentioned problem.
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Vasiliev, L., Vasiliev, L. (2008). Heat Pipes in Fuel Cell Technology. In: Kakaç, S., Pramuanjaroenkij, A., Vasiliev, L. (eds) Mini-Micro Fuel Cells. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8295-5_8
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