Abstract:
There is provided a fuel cell gas supply diffusion layer that includes: a sheet-shaped porous body layer having conductivity, the porous body layer allowing permeation and diffusion of a gas therethrough; and a plurality of gas flow path grooves formed on one surface of the porous body layer in a direction respectively directed from a gas inflow side to a gas outflow side. In the fuel cell gas supply diffusion layer, the plurality of gas flow path grooves include: a plurality of gas inflow side grooves formed on the gas inflow side; and a plurality of gas outflow side grooves formed on the gas outflow side. The plurality of gas inflow side grooves include two or more kinds of gas inflow side grooves that have different lengths
Abstract:
A gas diffusion member which can reduce internal resistance of a fuel cell. A gas diffusion member arranged between a separator and a catalyst layer of a fuel cell, including: a porous material layer; and a conductive material layer; wherein: the porous material layer is formed of a conductive porous material; the conductive material layer is formed of a conductive material; and the conductive material layer is arranged on a surface of the porous material layer on a side of the separator and is provided so that pores of the porous material layer are filled with the conductive material.
Abstract:
A fuel cell gas supply and diffusion layer includes a sheet-like porous body layer, and a plurality of gas passage grooves formed on one surface of the porous body layer in parallel and formed in a zigzag shape or a wave shape respectively. As viewed in a plan view, a first rectangular region where circumscribes one gas passage groove and a second rectangular region where circumscribes a gas passage groove adjacent to the one gas passage groove overlap along a region in contact each other. An overlapping region where the first rectangular region and the second rectangular region overlap exists at any depth position of the grooves. According to the fuel cell gas supply and diffusion layer, it is possible to increase a power generation efficiency of a fuel cell.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an anion exchange resin capable of producing an electrolyte membrane for a fuel cell, a binder for forming an electrode catalyst layer and a battery electrode catalyst layer. The anion exchange resin of the present invention has a hydrophobic unit, a hydrophilic unit and divalent fluorine-containing groups. The hydrophobic unit has divalent hydrophobic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The hydrophilic unit has divalent hydrophilic groups composed of one aromatic ring or a plurality of aromatic rings, at least one of which has an anion exchange group, that are repeated via carbon-carbon bond. The divalent fluorine-containing groups have a specific structure and are bonded via carbon-carbon bond to the hydrophobic unit and/or the hydrophilic unit and/or a moiety other than these units.
Abstract:
An anion exchange resin having a hydrophobic unit with divalent hydrophobic groups bonded to each other via an ether bond, the divalent hydrophobic groups being composed of one aromatic ring, or being composed of a plurality of aromatic rings which are bonded to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group, carbon-carbon bond or the like; and a hydrophilic unit having divalent hydrophilic groups bonded to each other via carbon-carbon bond, the divalent hydrophilic groups being composed of one aromatic ring, or being composed of a plurality of aromatic rings which are bonded to each other via a divalent hydrocarbon group or carbon-carbon bond, the aromatic ring or at least one of the aromatic rings having an anion exchange group are bonded via carbon-carbon bond.
Abstract:
Provided is a hydrogen refining pressure-boosting device which is durable even in a high-pressure environment. This hydrogen refining pressure-boosting device produces, from a hydrogen-containing gas, a refined hydrogen gas having higher pressure and higher purity than the hydrogen-containing gas. The hydrogen refining pressure-boosting device is equipped with multiple stacked cell structures, and a pressing structure that applies tightening stress in the direction in which the cell structures are stacked. In this hydrogen refining pressure-boosting device the flow path surface of a cathode-side separator is sized so as to be contained on the inside of the flow path surface of an anode-side separator, in the direction of a plane parallel to a solid polymer electrolyte membrane.
Abstract:
A cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; and a pair of separators. The membrane electrode assembly includes a polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode catalyst layer on a first main surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane, and a cathode catalyst layer on a second main surface. The anode catalyst layer contains a first catalyst material having activity against a hydrogen oxidation reaction and a first electrically conductive material whose electrical resistance under a hydrogen atmosphere and under an oxygen atmosphere are different from each other. The cathode catalyst layer contains a second catalyst material having activity against an oxygen reduction reaction and a second electrically conductive material different from the first electrically conductive material. An electrical resistance of the cell when the anode catalyst layer is under oxygen atmosphere is more than twice the electrical resistance of the cell when the anode catalyst layer is under hydrogen atmosphere.
Abstract:
A metallic separator for fuel cells having a metal plate, an electroconductive coating layer covering at least a surface in front and back surfaces of the metal plate which contacts a raw material and/or a reaction product, and an electroconductive channel-forming member disposed on a surface of the coating layer and forming a channel for the raw material and/or the reaction product and/or a channel for a cooling medium for cooling. A surface layer on the metal plate has a tensile residual stress within such a range that no stress-corrosion cracking occurs.
Abstract:
Provided is a catalyst for fuel reformation that causes carbon monoxide contained in hydrogen gas, which is produced from a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, to react with hydrogen and thereby to be transformed into methane, while inhibiting methanation of carbon dioxide contained in the hydrogen gas. The selective CO methanation catalyst includes at least one of a halogen, an inorganic acid, and a metal oxo-acid adsorbed or bonded as a carbon dioxide reaction inhibitor to a carbon monoxide methanation active component.
Abstract:
A membrane-electrode assembly including a catalyst layer that includes a catalyst-supporting carrier in which a catalyst is supported on a carrier made of an inorganic oxide, and a highly hydrophobic substance having a higher degree of hydrophobicity than the inorganic oxide, the catalyst layer being formed on at least one surface of a polymer electrolyte membrane. It is preferable that, in the membrane-electrode assembly, the degree of hydrophobicity of the highly hydrophobic substance is from 0.5 vol % to 45 vol % at 25° C., the degree of hydrophobicity being defined as a concentration of methanol (vol %) when a light transmittance of a dispersion obtained by dispersing the highly hydrophobic substance in a mixed solution of water and methanol reaches 80%.