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The Fabrication of a Micro-Channel for Metallic Bipolar Plates Using a Rubber Pad Forming Process

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A bipolar plate is one the most crucial and costliest of the various components of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). It is important to reduce the cost of bipolar plate, not only in terms of material, but also in terms of the manufacturing process, to allow the commercialization of PEMFC’s. The performance of PEMFC’s is also of importance. Metallic bipolar plates have been the subject of much attention recently, because of their low material cost, formability and excellent thermal and mechanical prosperities. Therefore, this study uses a rubber pad forming process for stainless 316L steel to fabricate a bipolar plate with serpentine channels. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is performed, in order to determine the influence of channel geometries, such as channel width, channel height and rib width, on the flow distribution of the reactant. Using the CFD results, finite element analysis models are then constructed and the formability of the micro-flow channel is studied. Finality, experiments are conducted to determine the channel height and thickness distribution of the bipolar plate. The numerical results are verified by the experimental results.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 626)

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August 2014

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You Min Huang*, Yi Syun Wu, Shung Ping Wang

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Bipolar Plate, Micro-Channel, Rubber Pad Forming

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