Water Management and Mass Transport Studies in Free Convection Proton-Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This investigation addresses water management and mass transport phenomena for low temperature (<40{degree sign}C), free convection PEM fuel cells that have been studied using novel microfabricated structures. Tailored mass transfer media (TMTM) were fabricated using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) techniques applied to low resistivity silicon. These structures were tailored with discrete wetting/non-wetting features to effectively manage liquid water distribution within the cell and simultaneously provide unobstructed gas transport to/from the catalyst layer. The TMTM were based on a micromachined hydrophobic silicon mesh comprised of 140μm square pores with discrete sets of zones engineered to be hydrophilic using a carbon-polyethylene oxide treatment. These structures were tested with and without treatments in a single-cell test fixture for temperature from 25{degree sign} to 40{degree sign}C operating on ambient air. For all test conditions, the treated versus untreated structure performance showed limiting current increases that ranged from 32% to 88%.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".