Systematic assessment of the anode flow field hydrodynamics in a new circular PEM water electrolyser |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Engineering and Energy Technologies, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, United Kingdom;2. Mechanical Engineering and Design, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, United Kingdom;3. Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
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Abstract: | In this work, we investigated the key underlying flow characteristics of a circular unit cell proton exchange membrane (PEM) water electrolyser. In particular, we focused on investigating anode flow field design using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool. Transient, 3D single phase fluid flow simulation results were presented, and in-house experiments were conducted for validation against CFD simulation data identifying key performance parameters of the PEM water electrolyser: uniform water distribution, pressure drop and hydraulic retention time. The effects of the water flow rate, inlet and outlet sizing and different number of inlet and outlet configurations were considered. The main observation from the study was discussed to provide insight into the factors affecting the flow pattern. Among the studied flow field design cases, it was found that the average pressure drop decreased with increase in number of inlets, also flow profile can be grouped into different set, depending on number of inlets. The correlation between pressure drop and mean velocity profile for different inlet and outlet configurations provides a useful basis to properly design the high performance PEM water electrolyser. |
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Keywords: | PEM water electrolyser Computational fluid dynamics Anode flow field Hydrodynamics |
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