NDLI: Titanium composite PBI-based membranes for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Effect on titanium dioxide amount

Content Provider	Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Author	Rodrigo, Manuel A. Pinar, F. Javier Ubeda, Diego Lobato, Justo Cañizares, Pablo
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The influence of different amounts of micro-sized titanium dioxide (anatase crystalline variety) dispersed into a polybenzimidazole membrane has been studied for its use as an electrolyte in high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. All of the membranes were cast from a polymer with the same molecular weight. The membranes were physicochemically and electrochemically characterized. From the membranes studied with different amounts of TiO2, the membrane that provided the best properties for its use as an electrolyte was the composite one which contained the lowest amount of filler. The composite membrane with 2 weight percent of the filler absorbed larger (absorbed acid: 2.42 gacid gmembrane−1) and leached lower (remaining acid: 0.78 gacid gmembrane−1) amounts of acid than the other composite and standard one. Because it has the largest acid and water absorption capability, the 2% TiO2-PBI showed also the highest ionic conductivity (0.043 S cm−1), measured out of the fuel cell. Fuel cell measurements and also stability tests (> 140 h) were made for the composite membrane with 2% of the filler and the results were compared with a standard polybenzimidazole fuel cell. The TiO2–PBI composite membrane showed the best performance and achieved a power density of 450 mW cm−1 at 175 °C. Moreover, the composite also showed the best stability under our operation conditions. Thus, the slope of the increase in the ohmic resistance of the composite membrane was 0.009 mΩ cm2 h−1 and the polarization resistance was 1.17 mΩ cm2 h−1 which was two times lower than that of the standard membrane. The benefit of inorganic filler introduction when the fuel cell operates at high temperature has been highlighted.
Starting Page	1547
Ending Page	1556
Page Count	10
File Format	HTM / HTML PDF
ISSN	20462069
Volume Number	2
Issue Number	4
Journal	RSC Advances
DOI	10.1039/c1ra01084k
Language	English
Publisher	Royal Society of Chemistry
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Anatase Electrolyte The Membranes Polymer Polybenzimidazole fiber Proton-exchange membrane Titanium dioxide Fuel cell
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Chemical Engineering

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