Recent developments and applications of the polymer fuel cell

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Polymer fuel cells require humidification for ionic conductivity, which means that product water is normally rejected as liquid. Atmospheric pressure systems of this type are difficult to operate. A self-humidified atmospheric pressure system operating at higher temperature (about 75-80 °C) on oxygen-enriched air rejecting product water in the vapour phase is described. It combines the advantages of unpressurized operation with the higher power density of a pressurized system, but with much lower parasitic power requirements.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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This Issue15 July 1996Volume 354Issue 1712 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1996.0073Published by:Royal SocietyPrint ISSN:1364-503XOnline ISSN:1471-2962History: Published online01/01/1997Published in print15/07/1996 License:Scanned images copyright © 2017, Royal Society Citations and impact