Influence of threshold variation on determining the properties of a polymer electrolyte fuel cell gas diffusion layer in X-ray nano-tomography |
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| Authors: | H Ostadi P Rama Y Liu R Chen XX Zhang K Jiang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Centre for Biomedical and Nanotechnology, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK;2. Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK;3. Department of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Brownlow Street, Liverpool L69 3GH, UK |
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| Abstract: | Morphological parameters of a 3D binary image of a porous carbon gas diffusion layer (GDL) for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) reconstructed using X-ray nano-tomography scanning have been obtained, and influence of small alterations in the threshold value on the simulated flow properties of the reconstructed GDL has been determined. A range of threshold values with 0.4% increments on the greyscale map have been applied and the gas permeability of the binary images have been calculated using a single-phase lattice Botlzmann model (LBM), which is based on the treatment of nineteen velocities in the three dimensional domain (D3Q19). The porosity, degrees of anisotropy and the mean pore radius have been calculated directly from segmented voxel representation. A strong relationship between these parameters and threshold variation has been established. These findings suggest that threshold selection can significantly affect some of the flow properties and may strongly influence the computational simulation of micro and nano-scale flows in a porous structure. |
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