TY - JFULL AU - Shan-Jen Cheng and Jr-Ming Miao and Sheng-Ju Wu PY - 2010/6/ TI - Numerical Optimization Design of PEM Fuel Cell Performance Applying the Taguchi Method T2 - International Journal of Physical and Mathematical Sciences SP - 525 EP - 532 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10671 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 41, 2010 N2 - The purpose of this paper is applied Taguchi method on the optimization for PEMFC performance, and a representative Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model is selectively performed for statistical analysis. The studied factors in this paper are pressure of fuel cell, operating temperature, the relative humidity of anode and cathode, porosity of gas diffusion electrode (GDE) and conductivity of GDE. The optimal combination for maximum power density is gained by using a three-level statistical method. The results confirmed that the robustness of the optimum design parameters influencing the performance of fuel cell are founded by pressure of fuel cell, 3atm; operating temperature, 353K; the relative humidity of anode, 50%; conductivity of GDE, 1000 S/m, but the relative humidity of cathode and porosity of GDE are pooled as error due to a small sum of squares. The present simulation results give designers the ideas ratify the effectiveness of the proposed robust design methodology for the performance of fuel cell. ER -