Analysis of Membranless Formic Acid Fuel Cell using E-Shaped Microfluidic Channel

Analysis of Membranless Formic Acid Fuel Cell using E-Shaped Microfluidic Channel M. Elumalai Department of Chemistry, School of Basic Science, VISTAS, Pallavaram, Chennai-600117, India M. Raja Department of Statistics, Tagore College of Arts and Science, Chrompet, Chennai-600117, India A. Rajasekaran Department of Chemistry, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Engineering and Technology, Chennai-603104, India B. Chinnaraja Department of Public Administration, University of Madras, Chennai-600005, India

A microfluidic fuel cell has been fabricated using formic acid in an alkaline media as the fuel and sodium percarbonate in acidic media as the oxidant. Various operating conditions and different cell dimensions were applied to evaluate the fuel cell performance. The laminar flow-based membraneless fuel cell was found to reach a maximum power density of 23.60 mW cm-2 using 1.50 M HCOOH in 3 M NaOH solution as the fuel and 0.15 M percarbonate in 1.50 M H2SO4 solution as the oxidant at room temperature. The fuel cell system has no proton exchange membrane. This simple membraneless fuel cell with a planar structure has a high design flexibility, which enables its easy integration into actual microfluidic systems and miniature power applications.
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