Research Progress, Trends, and Current State of Development on PEMFC-New Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis and Characteristics of Two Decades of Research Output
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Research Progress, Trends, and Current State of Development on PEMFC-New Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis and Characteristics of Two Decades of Research Output
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Agyekum, E. B.
Ampah, J. D. Wilberforce, T. Afrane, S. Nutakor, C. |
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS
DURABILITY GAS DIFFUSION LAYER HYDROGEN PEMFC PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL (PEMFC) CELL ENGINEERING DIFFUSION IN GASES ELECTROCATALYSIS ELECTROLYTIC REDUCTION GROWTH RATE HYDROGEN PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC) 'CURRENT BIBLIOMETRICS ANALYSIS FUEL CELL EFFICIENCY FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE GAS DIFFUSION LAYERS PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELL PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY PROTON-EXCHANGE MEMBRANES FUEL CELLS RESEARCH OUTPUTS DURABILITY |
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The consumption of hydrogen could increase by sixfold in 2050 compared to 2020 levels, reaching about 530 Mt. Against this backdrop, the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) has been a major research area in the field of energy engineering. Several reviews have been provided in the existing corpus of literature on PEMFC, but questions related to their evolutionary nuances and research hotspots remain largely unanswered. To fill this gap, the current review uses bibliometric analysis to analyze PEMFC articles indexed in the Scopus database that were published between 2000–2021. It has been revealed that the research field is growing at an annual average growth rate of 19.35%, with publications from 2016 to 2012 alone making up 46% of the total articles available since 2000. As the two most energy-consuming economies in the world, the contributions made towards the progress of PEMFC research have largely been from China and the US. From the research trend found in this investigation, it is clear that the focus of the researchers in the field has largely been to improve the performance and efficiency of PEMFC and its components, which is evident from dominating keywords or phrases such as ‘oxygen reduction reaction’, ‘electrocatalysis’, ‘proton exchange membrane’, ‘gas diffusion layer’, ‘water management’, ‘polybenzimidazole’, ‘durability’, and ‘bipolar plate’. We anticipate that the provision of the research themes that have emerged in the PEMFC field in the last two decades from the scientific mapping technique will guide existing and prospective researchers in the field going forward. © 2022 by the authors.
Hydrogen Region Flanders—South Nether program National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Minobrnauka, (FEUZ-2022-0031) Funding text 1: The research funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ural Federal University Program of Development within the Priority-2030 Program) is gratefully acknowledged: The youth laboratory. Grant number: FEUZ-2022-0031. Funding text 2: It has been established in this study that the PEMFC research field is growing at an annual average growth rate of 19.35%, and the first study in this century was published in 2000 by Ref. []. This article talks about a methanol reformer concept, including a reformer, a catalytic burner, a gas cleaning unit, a PEMFC, and an electric motor for use in fuel-cell-powered passenger cars, and their findings have been cited by 62 articles. The last quarter (2016–2021) of the study period has seen the most development in the field, with 46% of the total articles published in this period. The trend shows that the area continues to grow into a major research hotspot in the area of clean fuel technologies. China and the US have been the two main contributors to the development of the PEMFC research field. This is to be expected, as the two countries are the major energy-consuming countries in the world, relying predominantly on fossil-based fuels to meet energy demand. In the US, for example, in 2021, 61% of generated utility-scale electricity was from fossil fuels-coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases. China, on the other hand, had coal supplying 55% of the country’s total energy consumption in 2021. These trends in fuel consumption are a threat to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and, as such, could partly explain the dedicated efforts of these two world economic giants in finding cleaner alternative sources to power generation, such as the PEMFC. China’s dominance in the field is equally seen at the author, institutional, and funding agency levels, with key actors being Mu Pan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Natural Science Foundation of China, respectively. Funding text 3: In Europe, financial aid to champion the course of fuel cell development has equally seen an appreciable increase to £58 million pounds from the Framework Program 6 (FP6). Most of these research activities focused more on solid oxide fuel cells and proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Again, in the FP5 (HEAP project), the primary focus of the study was directed toward the UPS market. The goal was to develop a 50 kW PEM fuel cell system. In the FP6, R&D was not studied for applications exceeding 5 kW under the NextGen Cell project. Under the FP7, the ClearGen Demo coupled with the DENCOPEM —2 MW were funded. A spin-out of Akzo Nobel in 1999 led to the development of Nedstack. The 70kW PEM fuel cell stack has supplied more than 2.7 GWh of power continuously for almost seven years []. In Antwerp, Solay developed a 1 MW PEM fuel cell generator for one of their plants in 2012. With a 14-million-euro budget supported by the Hydrogen Region Flanders—South Nether program, the project came to fusion. The DEMCOOPEM—2MW project is a PEMFC power plant coupled to a chlor-alkali production unit in Yingkou, China, hence reducing the rate of power use by 20%. Funding text 4: With 0.84% of total publications, the most prolific author in the field is Mu Pan, affiliated with the Wuhan University of Technology (China). This researcher has vast experience in fuel cell research, and according to Scopus citations, the article “A degradation study of Nafion proton exchange membrane of PEM fuel cells” is the most cited article of this researcher. The only non-Chinese-based researchers in the top 10 list are W. Lehnert (Germany), A. Bazylak (Canada), and D. Hissel (France). The trend emphasizes the dominance of China, its affiliations, and researchers in the PEMFC field. The dominance of China could partly be attributed to funding available for PEMFC research. As seen in , the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) is the leading funding agency in the PEMFC research field, and the organization has supported 2564 articles, representing 12% of the total number of articles on PEMFC in the 21st century. This is a significant gap considering that the second top funder (National Research Foundation of Korea) has supported 3% of the total publications, which is only a quarter of what has been funded by NSFC. |
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2024-04-08T11:06:14Z
2024-04-08T11:06:14Z 2022 |
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Review
Review (info:eu-repo/semantics/review) Published version (info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion) |
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Agyekum, EB, Ampah, JD, Wilberforce, T, Afrane, S & Nutakor, C 2022, 'Research Progress, Trends, and Current State of Development on PEMFC-New Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis and Characteristics of Two Decades of Research Output', Membranes, Том. 12, № 11, 1103. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12111103
Agyekum, E. B., Ampah, J. D., Wilberforce, T., Afrane, S., & Nutakor, C. (2022). Research Progress, Trends, and Current State of Development on PEMFC-New Insights from a Bibliometric Analysis and Characteristics of Two Decades of Research Output. Membranes, 12(11), [1103]. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12111103 2077-0375 Final All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/11/1103/pdf?version=1667579649 https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0375/12/11/1103/pdf?version=1667579649 http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/131299 10.3390/membranes12111103 85141747202 000881302900001 |
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Membranes
Membranes |
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