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Frequently Asked Questions Fuel Cell Technology by K Prof. S Basu, Chemical Department, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

The document contains 12 questions related to transport processes and irreversible losses in fuel cells. Question 7 provides mole fractions and velocities for hydrogen and water vapor in a humidified hydrogen gas mixture and asks to calculate molar average velocity, mass average velocity, diffusion velocities, total fluxes, and diffusional fluxes. The response provides detailed calculations and solutions for each part of question 7.

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Frequently Asked Questions Fuel Cell Technology by K Prof. S Basu, Chemical Department, IIT Delhi, New Delhi

The document contains 12 questions related to transport processes and irreversible losses in fuel cells. Question 7 provides mole fractions and velocities for hydrogen and water vapor in a humidified hydrogen gas mixture and asks to calculate molar average velocity, mass average velocity, diffusion velocities, total fluxes, and diffusional fluxes. The response provides detailed calculations and solutions for each part of question 7.

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Frequently asked questions Fuel Cell Technology 

by K Prof. S Basu , Chemical Department, IIT Delhi, New Delhi. 
 
Module 3: Irreversible losses in fuel cell

 
Module 3: Frequently asked questions:  

Question no. 1. What are the different transport processes that occur in the fuel
cell simultaneously?

Question no. 2. Why voltage drops down when charge transport in the fuel cell?

Question no. 3. Compare and discuss about the basic laws of transport processes
related to fuel cell.?

Question no. 4. List some of the important reasons for the use of porous ectrodes
in fuel cell.?

Question no. 5. Define the mobility of an ion.?

Question no. 6. What is the meaning of migration?

Question no. 7. The mole fractions of hydrogen and water vapor in a humidified
hydrogen gas are 0.7 and 0.3, respectively. The pressure and
temperature of humidified hydrogen can be taken as 1 atm and
80 oC Determine the following, if the velocities of hydrogen and
water vapor are 3 m/s and 2 m/s, in the same direction:

(i) molar and mass average velocities

(ii) molar and mass diffusion velocities for hydrogen and water vapor.

(iii) total molar and mass fluxes for hydrogen and water vapor.

(iv) Diffusional molar and mass flux for both hydrogen and water vapor.

Question no. 8. Hydrogen gas fully saturated with water vapor at 1 atm and 80
o
C flows over an anode electrode, parallel to the anode
surface, at a velocity of 1 m/s. If the anode is rectangular and
the length along the flow direction is 10 cm, determine the
following;

(i) the limiting current density profile corresponding to the rate of


convective mass transfer,

(ii) the hydrogen concentration variation at the electrode surface and its
average value, if the current density drawn from the electrode if 0.5
2
A/cm .

Question no. 9. Define Nernst-Einstein relation.

Question no. 10. Define transference number of an ionic species.

Question no. 11. Define resistance, specific resistance, conductivity conductance,


and specific conductivity.

Question no. 12. Write the Nernst-Planck equation and details the different terms.
Solution3

Solution 7:

Given,

Mass fraction of hydrogen, .

Mass fraction of water, .

T = 80oC, P=1 atm

; /

(i) The molar average velocity can be calculated,

+ )=(0.7*3) + (0.3*2)
= 2.1+0.6 = 2.7 m/s

In order to determine mass-average velocity, mass fractions of H2 and H2O need to


be determined.

Since, the H2-H2O vapor mixture’s molecular weight will be required, so first we will
find out the molecular weight of the mixture (wmix).

Where and are the molecular weights (2 kg/kmol and 18 kg/kmol) of


H2 and H2O, respectively.

=(0.7 * 2)+ (0.3 * 18)

= 1.4 + 5.4 = 6.8 kg / kmol


 Therefore, the mass fraction will be,
2
0.7 0.206
6.8

18
0.3 0.794
6.8
Thus, the mass average velocity becomes,

= 0.206 * 3 + 0.794 * 2 = 2.206 m/s


Diffusion velocity of hydrogen relative to the mass averaged mean motion of the
mixture is,

= . . /

Diffusion velocity of hydrogen relative to the molar averaged mean motion of the
mixture is,

. . /

Diffusion velocity of water relative to the mass averaged mean motion of the mixture
is,

= - v = 2 -2.206 = - 0.206 m/s

Diffusion velocity of water relative to the molar averaged mean motion of the mixture
is,

= - = 2 – 2.7 = - 0.7 m/s

(iii)

The total density for the mass in the mixture may be formed out from the equation of
state by assuming that the mixture follows the ideal gas behavior,

. .
Ρ= = 0.235 kg /
Thus, the partial density of H2 and H2O is,

= = 0.206 * 0.235 = 0.0484 kg/

= = 0.794 * 0.235 = 0.1866 kg/

We can also find the corresponding total molar concentration for the mixture,

. /
C= = . / = 0.35 kmol/
. /

Then the molar concentration of H2 and H2O is,

C = 0.7 * 35 = 24.5 /

C = 0.3 * 35 = 10.5 /
Thus,

The total mass flux of H2 = = 0.0484 * 3 = 0.1452 kg/

The total molar flux of H2 = . . /

Similarly,

The total mass flux of H2O = = 0.1866 * 2 = 0.3732 kg/

The total molar flux of H2O = = 10.5 * 2 = 21 /

(iv)

The diffusional mass flux of H2, = 0.0484 * 0.794 = 0.0384 kg/

The diffusional molar flux of H2 . . /

The diffusional mass flux o fH2O, 0.1866 * ‐0.0206 ‐ 0.38 kg/

The diffusional molar flux of H2O, = 10.5 * (- 0.7) = -7.35 /

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