Low stress creep response of PTFE sealants applied to PEM fuel cells
JOURNAL OF APPLIED POLYMER SCIENCE(2024)
Abstract
Viscoelastic properties of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) play a crucial role in forecasting its long-term behavior in engineering applications. An attempt is made to explore the viscoelastic properties of PTFE sealants that are utilized in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). It is to be noted that PTFE sealants are vulnerable to creep under constant loading at elevated temperatures. Moreover, the creep of sealants will lead to leakage of reactants from the cell, which affects the performance of PEMFC. PTFE is an excellent choice as a sealant material in low-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (LT-PEMFC), which operates in the temperature range of 60-80 degrees C. PTFE can be prominently used as sealants in high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC), as it possesses no significant change in its physical properties within the temperature range of -150 to 300 degrees C along with the working conditions of HT-PEMFC. In LT-PEMFC, the sealants will typically be subjected to low stresses in the range of 1-5 MPa. In this article, the creep response of PTFE sealant material is extensively studied at various temperatures of 25 (room temperature), 35, 45, 55, and 65 degrees C and at three stress levels of 2, 3, and 4 MPa. The time-temperature superposition principle is utilized to develop master curve at a reference temperature of 25 degrees C, to forecast long-term creep characteristics of PTFE sealants. Moreover, the master curve for creep compliance is developed for 4.5 h.
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batteries and fuel cells,mechanical properties,structure-property relationships,theory and modeling,viscosity and viscoelasticity
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