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Investigation on PEM water electrolysis cell design and components for a HyCon solar hydrogen generator
- Source :
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 42:13544-13553
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Hydrogen as a secondary energy carrier promises a large potential as a long term storage for fluctuating renewable energies. In this sense a highly efficient solar hydrogen generation is of great interest especially in southern countries having high solar irradiation. The patented Hydrogen Concentrator (HyCon) concept yields high efficiencies combining multi-junction solar cells with proton exchange (PEM) membrane water electrolysis. In this work, a special PEM electrolysis cell for the HyCon concept was developed and investigated. It is shown that the purpose-made PEM cell shows a high performance using a titanium hybrid fiber sinter function both as a porous transport layer and flow field. The electrolysis cell shows a high performance with 1.83 V at 1 A/cm 2 and 24 °C working under natural convection with a commercially available catalyst coated membrane. A theoretical examination predicts a total efficiency for the HyCon module from sunlight to hydrogen of approximately 19.5% according to the higher heating value.
- Subjects :
- Hydrogen
CPV
Electrolytic cell
020209 energy
High-pressure electrolysis
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
Electrolysis
Energietechnik
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Electrolysis of water
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Wasserstofferzeugung durch Elektrolyse
Wasserstofftechnologie
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Condensed Matter Physics
Renewable energy
III-V solar cell
Fuel Technology
chemistry
Chemical engineering
High-temperature electrolysis
solar hydrogen production
Coated membrane
0210 nano-technology
business
Polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysis
Nuclear chemistry
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03603199
- Volume :
- 42
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....12e0cb02305eafe9829d5c18912c9e8b