A full-scale simulation model of a small air-cooled PEMFC stack is established in ANSYS/Fluent software
and the solution is obtained using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods. The effects of different altitudes and cathode stoichiometric ratios on the output performance
temperature
and oxygen concentration of the fuel cell stack are investigated. The results indicate that when the altitude increases to 3200 m
the peak power density of the fuel cell stack decreases by 21.6%. Increasing the cathode stoichiometric ratio can compensate for the decrease in oxygen concentration caused by higher altitudes
improve the output performance of the fuel cell stack and reduce the internal temperature differences within the stack.
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