An Investigation of Direct Hydrocarbon (Propane) Fuel Cell Performance Using Mathematical Modeling

Figure 11

The effect of the propane inlet molar flow rate, (gmol/s), on the polarization curve for a direct propane fuel cell (DPFC) model at 150°C and 1 atm. The values of (gmol/s) for the above three cases were represented by the following symbols: (i) open circles: 16x10⁻⁶ gmol/s, (ii) solid diamonds: 8x10⁻⁶ gmol/s (reference case), and (iii) open triangles: 2x10⁻⁶ gmol/s. All the other parameters were the same as the reference case mentioned in Table 1.