耐碳碱性燃料电池的设计与测试
Design and Test of a Carbon-Tolerant Alkaline Fuel Cell
摘要：
本文介绍了新的结果，这可能构成一个突破，在努力开发燃料电池真正适用于汽车和卡车。几十年来，研究人员已经知道碱性燃料电池（AFC）比更流行的PEM燃料电池更便宜，更有效，更耐用;然而，“碳中毒”（来自空气中的CO2或来自重整甲醇中的污染物）在太空中常用的氧氢AFC中引起了很大的问题。本文报告了对用聚苯乙烯涂覆电极的技术的成功测试，该技术与旧的常识技术相结合，似乎可以解决这个问题。这种设计适用于氢燃料、重整甲醇甚至直接甲醇汽车。开发测试方法是这项工作的主要部分。NSF的一位赞助商在前言中讨论了这项工作对能源安全和环境的重要性。
英文摘要：
This paper presents new results which may constitute a breakthrough in the effort to develop fuel cells truly suitable for use in cars and trucks. For decades, researchers have known that the alkaline fuel cell (AFC) is much cheaper to make, more efficient and more durable than the more popular PEM fuel cell; however, "carbon poisoning" (either from CO2 in air or from contaminants in reformed methanol) causes big problems in the kind of oxygen-hydrogen AFC commonly used in space. This paper reports successful tests of a technique for coating the electrodes with polystyrene which, in conjunction with older common-sense techniques, appears to solve the problem. This kind of design is applicable to cars run on hydrogen fuel, on reformed methanol or even direct methanol. Developing a test methodology was a major part of the work. A foreword by one of the sponsors at NSF discusses the larger importance of this work for energy security and the environment.
机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来，可能存在错误，请以论文正文为准。
