ENHANCEMENT THE PERFORMANCE OF 64cm2 INTERDIGITATED FLOW CHANNEL OF PEM FUEL CELL BY TAGUCHI METHOD

The Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell is an electrochemical device and its performance depends on the design and operating parameters. In this paper, optimization of various operating and design parameters on interdigitated flow channel with64cm2active area of the PEM fuel cell was considered. The modeling of Three Dimensional (3-D) PEM fuel cell, Analysis and optimization by Taguchi method was done by Creo Parametric 2.0, CFD Fluent 14.5and Minitab 17 software respectively. Based on the optimization study, the R: C- 1:2hasproduced 0.169 W/cm2 of power density on PEM fuel cell performance and square of response factor (R2) was achieved by Taguchi method as 99.93%