摘要:
The invention pertains to a process for manufacturing certain (per)fluoroionomer liquid compositions, comprising, inter alia, at least one of fluorination and treatment with a polar solvent, to the liquid compositions therefrom having an improved solids content/surface tension/liquid viscosity compromise, to the use of the same for manufacturing composite membranes and to composite membranes obtainable therefrom.
摘要:
Catalyst-polymer liquid dispersion (LD) comprising (i) catalyst particles, (ii) polymer particles consisting of at least one (per)fluoro sulfonyl fluoride polymer in the —SO2F form, and (iii) an aqueous suspending medium.Catalyst coated membrane precursor (CCMP), catalyst coated membrane (CCM) and catalytic ionomeric ink (CII) derived therefrom and methods for their manufacture. Catalyst coated membrane (CCM-CII) derived from said (CII).
摘要:
A composite ionomeric membrane comprising a layer or film of a porous inert material on which a (per) fluorinated sulphonic ionomer is deposited wherein the sulphonic groups are at the end of short side chains (SSC), said ionomer having: equivalent weight comprised between 280 and 1,700 g/eq; side chains of formula: —O—CF2—CF2—S03−M+, wherein M is hydrogen or an alkaline metal; said membrane having in each of the two orthogonal directions xy of the plane, after dipping in demineralized water at 100° C. for 30 minutes and preliminary drying at 105° C. under vacuum for one hour, the following size variations: in one direction, size variation lower than 25%; in the other direction, size variation lower than 20%.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a process for stabilizing a semi-crystalline fluoropolymer comprising ion exchange groups, said process comprising: suspending at least one semi-crystalline fluoropolymer having ion exchange groups [polymer (I)] in at least one fluorinated organic dispersing medium [medium (M)] so as to obtain a dispersion (D) of polymer (I) in a dispersing medium (M); contacting said dispersion (D) with fluorine under irradiation with U.V. radiation so as to obtain a stabilized polymer. Still objects of the invention are a stable semi-crystalline fluoropolymer as above defined having a low amount of unstable ends groups of —COF type, the use of the stabilized fluoropolymer obtained by the process or of the stable fluoropolymer in fuel cells devices, a membrane and a membrane-electrode assembly comprising said fluoropolymers.
摘要:
CCM formed of a membrane having on one of the two surfaces a first electrocatalytic layer containing a catalyst and on the other one a second electrocatalytic layer containing a catalyst, said electrocatalytic layers and said membrane containing (per)fluorinated ionomers, said CCM having the following characteristics: size variations, for both the orthogonal directions of the plane xy, lower than 15%, by dipping the CCM, after drying at 105° C. under vacuum for one hour in demineralized water at 100° C. for 30 minutes; the CCM remains substantially unchanged after having been subjected to treatments of 60 cycles by dipping in water at 80° C. for 8 hours and then in water at the temperature of 25° C. for 16 hours.
摘要:
Ionomeric membranes comprising (per)fluorinated, se-micrystalline or amorphous, ionomeric polymers, having equivalent weight (EW) from 380 g/eq to 1,800 g/eq, which used in fuel cells, under the following conditions: membrane thickness 50 μm assembled between two electrodes catalyzed with 0.6 mg/cm2 Pt/C and treated with 0.7 mg/cm2 of Nafion®, having a 10 cm2 area; hydrogen and air feeding, both at the pressure of 0.25 MPa, both saturated with water at 80° C.; cell temperature 75° C.; for membranes formed of copolymers TFE/F2C═CF—O—(CF2)2—SO2F, give the following maximum specific power (PMAX) values, at the indicated EW values: at EW=670 PMAX higher than 0.55 Watt/cm2; at EW=830 PMAX higher than 0.66 Watt/cm2; at EW=1,160 PMAX higher than 0.50 Watt/cm2; at EW=1,600 PMAX higher than 0.32 Watt/cm2.
摘要翻译:离子聚合物膜包含在以下条件下用于燃料电池的(全)氟化,结晶或无定形离聚物聚合物,其具有380g / eq至1,800g / eq当量的等效重量(EW):组装的膜厚度50μm 在用0.6mg / cm 2 Pt / C催化的两个电极之间,并用0.7mg / cm 2的Nafion处理,其具有10cm 2 / / SUP>区域; 氢气和空气进料,两者在0.25MPa的压力下,均在80℃下用水饱和; 电池温度为75℃。 对于由共聚物形成的膜TFE / F 2 C-CF-O-(CF 2)2 -SO 2 2 SUB > F,在指定的EW值下给出以下最大比功率(P MAX):在EW = 670 P最高 SUB>高于0.55瓦特/厘米 2 SUP>; 在高于0.66Watt / cm 2的EW = 830P最大值 SUP> 在EW = 1,160 P MAX高于0.50Watt / cm 2的情况下, 在高于0.32瓦/厘米2的EW = 1,600P最高 SUP>。
摘要:
MEA 7-layer assemblies with gasket, comprising: a film of ionomeric membrane (3), containing functional acid groups —SO3H and/or —COOH, having in at least one direction, called direction x, a size variation lower than 0.08%; two GDL sheets (1) and (2) in porous material having on one surface an electrocatalytic layer, not shown in the Figures, of which: the first sheet DGL (1) is coextensive with the membrane (3) surface, positioned so as to overlap thereto; the second sheet GDL (2), having a lower width but the same length of the film of membrane (3), measured in the x direction; the two sheets (1) and (2) placed so that the electrocatalytic layer comes into contact, respectively, with each of the two membrane faces; a gasket positioned according to a frame shape along the assembly perimeter.
摘要:
An ionomeric membrane formed of a sulphonic (per)fluorinated ionomer wherein the sulphonic groups are at the end of short side chains (SSC), said ionomer having: equivalent weight between 700 and 1600 g/eq; side chains of formula: —O—CF2—CF2—SO3−M+, wherein M is hydrogen or an alkaline metal; said membrane having the following combination of properties: size variations, for both the orthogonal directions xy of the plane, lower than 15%, measured after dipping of the ionomeric membrane, dried at 105° C. under vacuum for one hour, in demineralized water at 100° C. for 30 minutes; the membrane, dipped at the temperature of 50° C. for 22 hours in a water/ethanol mixture containing 40% by weight of alcohol, remains integral.
摘要:
Assemblies or MEA devices (Membrane Electrode Assembly) comprising a membrane and two electrocatalytic layers on each side thereof, wherein: the area of each of the two electrocatalytic layers is lower than that of the membrane; on each of the two sides of the ionomeric membrane there is at least one subgasket, applied on the MEA non catalyzed area; the edges of the ionomeric membranes being enclosed among said subgaskets.
摘要:
The invention pertains to a process for operating a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), said PEMFC comprising: (a) a membrane comprising at least one fluorinated ionomer [polymer (I)] comprising recurring units derived from tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) and from at least one monomer of formula (M): wherein m is an integer between 1 and 6 and X′ is chosen among halogens (Cl, F, Br, I), —O−M+, wherein M+ is a cation selected among H+, NH4+, K+, Li+, Na+, or mixtures thereof, said polymer (I) having an equivalent weight (EW) of from 700 to 850 g/eq.; (b) a cathode; (c) an anode; said process comprising: (i) feeding gaseous reactants at the electrodes at a relative humidity of at most 66%; (ii) maintaining an average current density between 0.05 and 1.5 A/cm2; and (iii) maintaining an average temperature of more than 65° C.