Internal Flow Analysis on the Fuel Cell's Blower

연료전지용 연료승압블로어 내부유동장 평가

This paper describes internal flow of a fuel cell's blower, which is mainly used for detached house and apartment. Test blower is operated by a diaphragm, which has suction and discharge port on the top of the blower. For analyzing the internal flow of the blower, three-dimensional Navier-Stokes analysis is introduced in the present study. Hybrid grid system consisted of hexa hedral, tetra hedral and prism mesh is adopted to describe the complex geometry of the diaphragm blower. Throughout the numerical simulation, it is found that the present numerical modeling for analyzing the internal flow of the test blower is suitable for understanding the unsteady nature inside the cavity of the diaphragm. Detailed unsteady flow is analyzed using the results obtained by numerical simulation.

1kW급 가정용 연료전지 블로어는 다이어프램방식에 의해 고압 및 일정유량의 가스를 이송시키는 역할을 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 연료전지 중 연료승압블로어를 대상으로 흡입 및 토출시의 다이어프램 캐비티(Cavity) 내의 공기유동 특성을 수치해석을 적용하여 평가하였다.