TY - JOUR AU - Janssen, Holger AU - Lüke, Lukas AU - Lehnert, Werner AU - Stolten, Detlef TI - Setup and experimental validation of a 5 kW HT-PEFC stack JO - International journal of hydrogen energy VL - 42 IS - 16 SN - 0360-3199 CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Elsevier M1 - FZJ-2016-07211 SP - 11596 - 11604 PY - 2017 AB - This paper presents a performance analysis of a 5 kWel high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cell (HT-PEFC) stack. Stack design and sizing is adapted to auxiliary power unit (APU) applications assuming the use of middle distillates. The parameter study comprises the variation of the fuel type (reformate, with pure hydrogen as a reference), the stoichiometry on the anode (1.3–2.7) and cathode (1.25–4.0) sides and the carbon monoxide (CO) concentration (0.9–3.5%) in the reformate. At 0.5 A cm−2, a coolant inlet temperature of 160 °C, stoichiometric factors of 1.3 on the anode and 2 on the cathode side and reformate operation, two interconnected full stacks produced 5 kW of electric power. The focus of the present work is an examination of the robustness of the full stacks through an analysis of the 70 single cell voltages. By comparison to other published operational parameter studies, this paper makes a significant contribution to the application of the methodology not to single cells or short stacks, but to a stack with technical relevance in the high power class. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000403381400085 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.03.038 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/824648 ER -