Background technology
Fuel cell is a kind of rising new electrical source of power; Be fuel generally with hydrogen, carbon, methyl alcohol, boron hydride, coal gas or natural gas; With hydrogen as negative pole; With airborne oxygen as positive pole. with the main distinction of general battery be the active material of general battery be placed in advance into, thereby battery capacity depends on the amount of the active material of storage; And the active material of fuel cell (fuel and oxidant) is in reaction, to import continuously, and therefore, this type battery is an energy conversion device in fact just.Advantages such as this type battery has the conversion efficiency height, capacity is big, specific energy is high, power bracket is wide, need not charge have vast potential for future development at aspects such as airship, submarine, military affairs, TV terminal, beacon and buoys.
Fuel cell of the prior art is mainly formed by the battery unit series combination more than two.Fig. 1 has described the structure and the position relation of each parts in the battery unit.As shown in Figure 1; Said each battery unit all comprises bipolar plates 110,120 and membrane electrode assembly 100; Said bipolar plates 110,120 comprises independent respectively positive plate 110 and the minus plate 120 that is provided with, and said membrane electrode assembly 100 is folded between said positive plate 110 and the said minus plate 120.Said positive plate 110 comprises anode electrochemical reacting part 117 and anode non-electrochemical reacting part 118; The fuel fluid passage that said anode electrochemical reacting part 117 is provided with groove shape structure near the one side of said membrane electrode assembly 100 is because Fig. 1 is a vertical view, and said fuel fluid passage is not shown.Said minus plate 120 comprises electrochemical cathode reacting part 127 and negative electrode non-electrochemical reacting part 128, and said electrochemical cathode reacting part 127 is provided with the oxidant fluid passage 129 of groove shape structure near the one side of said membrane electrode assembly 100; Said anode non-electrochemical reacting part 118 is provided with first through hole 111, second through hole 112 and third through-hole 113; That said negative electrode non-electrochemical reacting part 128 is provided with is not shown among fourth hole Fig. 1, fifth hole 125 and the 6th through hole 126; Said first through hole 111 and said fourth hole coaxial communication; Said second through hole 112 and said fifth hole 125 coaxial communication, said third through-hole 113 and said the 6th through hole 126 coaxial communication; Said fuel fluid passage is connected with said first through hole 111; Said oxidant fluid passage 129 is connected with said the 6th through hole 126; In addition; Be respectively equipped with among anode cooling passage 119 and negative electrode cooling passage 232 Fig. 1 not shown away from the one side of said membrane electrode assembly 100 at said anode electrochemical reacting part 117 and said electrochemical cathode reacting part 127; Said anode cooling passage 119 is connected with said second through hole 112, and said negative electrode cooling passage 232 is connected with said fifth hole 125..
In the prior art; Adopt bonding mode that positive plate and minus plate in adjacent two battery units are bonded together; Between said anode electrochemical reacting part and the electrochemical cathode reacting part, all there is seam between said anode non-electrochemical reacting part and the negative electrode non-electrochemical reacting part.Bipolar plate structure described in the above-mentioned prior art, because positive plate and minus plate independently are provided with, structure is comparatively complicated; Have the bigger internal resistance that contacts between positive plate and the adjacent cathode plate, cause generating efficiency lower; In addition, positive plate and minus plate need independent the manufacturing, assembling respectively, and processing cost is higher, and production efficiency is lower.
Embodiment
For the purpose, technical scheme and the advantage that make the utility model embodiment clearer; To combine the accompanying drawing among the utility model embodiment below; Technical scheme among the utility model embodiment is carried out clear, intactly description; Obviously, described embodiment is the utility model part embodiment, rather than whole embodiment.Based on the embodiment in the utility model, those of ordinary skills are not making the every other embodiment that is obtained under the creative work prerequisite, all belong to the scope of the utility model protection.
Embodiment one
To shown in Figure 3, present embodiment provides a kind of fuel cell with integrated anode and cathode bipolar plates like Fig. 1, comprises bipolar plates and the membrane electrode assembly 200 alternately arranged; Said bipolar plates comprises electrochemical reaction portion and non-electrochemical reacting part 210; It is characterized in that: the framework that said non-electrochemical reacting part is integrated, said electrochemical reaction portion 210 is nested in the said non-electrochemical reacting part framework.Like this; The non-electrochemical reacting part 210 of a slice positive plate in adjacent two battery units in the prior art and the non-electrochemical reacting part 210 of a slice minus plate are improved to a slice overall structure, not only make the internal structure of fuel cell tightr, help simplified manufacturing technique; Two machine plates of this integrative-structure can reduce interstructural contact internal resistance simultaneously; Reduce the loss of cell power generation amount, thereby can improve generating efficiency, further save from causing this.
Said electrochemical reaction portion comprises anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 and electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071.Said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 is provided with the fuel fluid passage 233 of groove shape structure away from the one side of said electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071; Said electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071 is provided with the oxidant fluid passage of groove shape structure away from the one side of said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072, be convenient to like this fuel fluid and oxidant fluid through and carry out electrochemical reaction.Figure is mainly used in the structure and the position relation of said electrochemical reaction portion of explanation and said non-electrochemical reacting part 210, and is clear more understandable in order to make accompanying drawing, not shown said fuel fluid passage 233 and oxidant fluid passage.
Said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 is provided with the fuel fluid passage 231 of groove shape structure away from the one side of said electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071; Said electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071 is provided with the oxidant fluid passage 233 of groove shape structure away from the one side of said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072.Fig. 4 is mainly used in the structure and the position relation of said electrochemical reaction portion of explanation and said non-electrochemical reacting part 210, and is clear more understandable in order to make accompanying drawing, not shown said anode cooling passage 232 and negative electrode cooling passage 232.
Said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 is bonded in said non-electrochemical reacting part 210 frameworks with said electrochemical cathode reacting part equal 2071, and said anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 closely links together with electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071 back-to-back.Like this, said anode cooling passage 232 is connected into cavernous structure with said negative electrode cooling passage 232, forms to be positioned at said poroid cooling passage 232 with integrated anode and cathode bipolar plates middle part.So just make this have integrated anode and cathode bipolar plates respectively on the two sides and the middle part have individual passage altogether; Be respectively applied for through fuel stream, oxidant fluid and cooling fluid, be convenient to passing through and reacting to each other of fuel and oxidant fluid, can further improve generating efficiency; Make fuel cell have the carrying out of the electrochemical reaction of higher water retention property and fuel cell; Help reducing the internal temperature of fuel cell, protection fuel cell, the useful life of increase fuel cell.
Said cooling channels 232 is located between anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 and the electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071; Said fluid passage 232 can all or part ofly be produced on the one side of electrochemical cathode reacting part near said anode electrochemical reacting part, and said fluid passage 232 also can all or part ofly be processed in the one side of anode electrochemical reacting part near said electrochemical cathode reacting part.When said fluid passage 232 was produced in the negative and positive polarization response portion, negative and positive two reacting parts that link together back-to-back made said anode cooling passage be connected into cavernous structure with said negative electrode cooling passage merging.
Said non-electrochemical reacting part is provided with the through hole 221 that is used to flow into and flow out fuel fluid, be used to flow into and flow out the through hole 223 of oxidant fluid and be used to flow into and flow out the through hole 222 of cooling fluid, is connected with said fuel fluid passage, oxidant fluid passage and the cooling passage that is produced on the negative and positive reacting part respectively.Because said non-electrochemical reacting part 210 is the structure of an integration; Above-mentioned through hole, one-shot forming get final product, and need not after opening a through hole on the non-electrochemical reacting part 210 respectively, to make up again, and processing technology is simpler; Can effectively reduce manufacturing cost, enhance productivity.
Embodiment two
Extremely shown in Figure 3 like Fig. 1; The utility model also provides said another embodiment with fuel cell of integrated anode and cathode bipolar plates; This fuel cell comprises bipolar plates and the membrane electrode assembly of alternately arranging 200; Said bipolar plates comprises electrochemical reaction portion and non-electrochemical reacting part 210; The structure of said non-electrochemical reacting part 210 is consistent with the non-electrochemical reacting part 210 described in the foregoing description one; But its electrochemical reaction portion is the integral structure that electric conducting material is processed, and anode electrochemical reacting part described in the foregoing description one 2072 and electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071 are united two into one, and has had the function of anode electrochemical reacting part 2072 described in the foregoing description one and electrochemical cathode reacting part 2071 simultaneously concurrently.Like this, just formed the bipolar plates that electrochemical reaction portion and non-electrochemical reacting part 210 all are structure as a whole.Like this, just on the basis of embodiment one, further make the internal structure of fuel cell tightr, assembling is more prone to, and manufacturing process is easier, and cost is lower.
Because the yet integrated structure of electrochemical reaction portion does not have seam between anode and the negative electrode, can further reduce the contact impedance of fuel battery inside, has further increased generating efficiency.
It is not shown that the two sides of said electrochemical reaction portion is respectively equipped with the oxidant fluid passage of fuel fluid passage 233 and groove shape structure of groove shape structure, be convenient to reacting gas through and carry out electrochemical reaction.
Said electrochemical reaction portion can adopt the processing technology of die sinking to produce the integral structure that the middle part is provided with poroid cooling passage 232, further is convenient to cooling fluid through said fuel cell, improves this fuel cell performance.
As aforementioned; The structure of the non-electrochemical reacting part 210 of the fuel cell of being introduced in the structure of said non-electrochemical reacting part 210 and the foregoing description one is consistent; Therefore; Can be on said non-electrochemical reacting part 210 once moulding establish three through holes, be connected with said fuel fluid passage 233, cooling passage 232 and oxidant fluid passage respectively, be used for flowing into fuel fluid, cooling fluid and oxidant fluid to this fuel cell.
Need to prove; Only the through hole that is used to flow into fuel fluid, inleting oxidant fluid and flow into cooling fluid is illustrated in this specification; The through hole that is used to flow out fuel fluid, oxidant fluid and cooling fluid accordingly and the above-mentioned through hole that is used to flow into fuel fluid, inleting oxidant fluid and flow into cooling fluid in like manner and corresponding are not done tired stating here.
What should explain at last is, above embodiment is only in order to the technical scheme of explanation the utility model, but not to its restriction; Although the utility model has been carried out detailed explanation with reference to previous embodiment; Those of ordinary skill in the art is to be understood that: it still can be made amendment to the technical scheme that aforementioned each embodiment put down in writing, and perhaps part technical characterictic wherein is equal to replacement; And these are revised or replacement, do not make the spirit and the scope of each embodiment technical scheme of essence disengaging the utility model of relevant art scheme.