Milad Hosseinpour - ۱Msc.Student, Mechanical Eng. Sharif University of Technology (International Campus),
Mohammad Ali Vesaghi - Professor, Department of Physics. Faculty, Sharif University of Technology

The effect of temperature on the performance of a single PEM fuel cell which has nanoparticles of Ni on its cathode catalyst layer was studied by using currentvoltage measurements. The results show that, performance intensively affected by the temperature and better performances are gained at higher temperatures of cell and intermediate temperatures of hydrogen and oxygen. The best performance of this cell achieved when the cell temperature is 75°C and hydrogen and oxygen temperatures are 65°C and 55°C, respectively.

Nanoparticles, PEM fuel cells, Polarization curves Temperature effect