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The present study focuses on analyzing the performance characteristics of the direct-ethanol fuel cell (DEFC) under different feed inlet temperature for ethanol solution in an anode side and air at the cathode side. The membrane used is Nafion 117 with catalyst loading on both sides. The experiment was conducted by changing the inlet feed temperature at anode and cathode side from 30–90 °C both in parallel and in cross arrangements and also varying the cell temperature from 40–80 °C. The performance of the DEFC was analyzed with a polarization curve and power density curve which was plotted by measuring voltage–current density values. From the results obtained, it was observed that for a temperature of 70 °C for feed temperature for both anode and cathode side, maximum power density of 0.00416 W/cm2 was obtained and maximum power density of 0.00468 W/cm2 was obtained when the combination of temperature was 30 and 90 °C inlet feed and air, respectively. Increase in cell temperature increased the performance and maximum was obtained at 0.00562 W/cm2 at a temperature of 80 °C.
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Ravi, V., Varghese, Y., Jacob, C.A. (2020). Effect of Inlet Feed Temperature on the Performance of Direct-Ethanol Fuel Cell. In: Sivasubramanian, V., Subramanian, S. (eds) Global Challenges in Energy and Environment. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9213-9_14
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