Additive manufactured bipolar plate for high-efficiency hydrogen production in proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells

Gaoqiang Yang; Jingke Mo; Zhenye Kang; Frederick A. List; Johney B. Green; Sudarsanam S. Babu; Feng Yuan Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.04.100

Additive manufactured bipolar plate for high-efficiency hydrogen production in proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells

Gaoqiang Yang
, Jingke Mo
, Zhenye Kang
, Frederick A. List
, Johney B. Green
, Sudarsanam S. Babu
, Feng Yuan Zhang

Materials for Advanced Manufacturing

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Abstract

Additive manufacturing (AM) technology is capable of fast and low-cost prototyping from complex 3D digital models. To take advantage of this technology, a stainless steel (SS) plate with parallel flow field served as a combination of a cathode bipolar plate and a current distributor; it was fabricated using selective laser melting (SLM) techniques and investigated in a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cell (PEMEC) in-situ for the first time. The experimental results show that the PEMEC with an AM SS cathode bipolar plate can achieve an excellent performance for hydrogen production for a voltage of 1.779 V and a current density of 2.0 A/cm². The AM SS cathode bipolar plate was also characterized by SEM and EDS, and the results show a uniform elemental distribution across the plate with very limited oxidization. This research demonstrates that AM method could be a route to aid cost-effective and rapid development of PEMECs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	14734-14740
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume	42
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2017.04.100
State	Published - May 25 2017

Keywords

Additive manufacturing
Bipolar plate
Hydrogen production
PEM electrolyzer cell
Selective laser melting
Stainless steel

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Additive manufactured bipolar plate for high-efficiency hydrogen production in proton exchange membrane electrolyzer cells

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