Fuel Cells, Batteries and Electrochemical Engineering

User Stories

	Microelectronics: Modeling a Copper-deposition System Replisaurus Technologies AB, Kista, Sweden Only through advanced packaging techniques can we take advantage of state-of-the-art microelectronic devices. The flip-chip method has become a cost-effective...
	Electrolysis: Electrochemical Machining in Appliance Manufacturing Royal Philips Electronics NV, Drachten, Netherlands Behind your clean, close shave there is an enormous amount of high technology, even in electric shavers that have been around for decades. On its...
	Manufacturing: Reduced Metal Consumption in Electroplating Saves Big Money PEM, Siaugues, France Given the scarcity and price developments of today’s metals, virtually all of them can be counted as being ‘precious’. As a result, electroplating firms...
	Electrochemical Engineering: Modeling Optimizes Fuel Cells Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Automotive and other vehicular applications place their own special requirements on fuel cells. In designing a cell, many things comes into play: cell...
	Electrochemical Engineering: Modeling the Fuel Cell COMSOL AB and Catella Generics, Stockholm, Sweden In this rapidly developing and highly competitive market, the time from idea to prototype has shrunk. Therefore, tools for developing virtual prototypes have...

Model Examples

	Electrochemical Polishing: This example illustrates the principle of electrochemical polishing. The simplified 2D model...		Discharge and Self-Discharge of a Lead-Acid Battery: Lead-acid batteries are widely used as starting batteries for...
	Soluble Lead-Acid Redox Flow Battery: In a redox flow battery electrochemical energy is stored as redox couples in the...		Copper Deposition in a Trench: This model demonstrates the use of moving meshes in the application of copper...
	Primary Current Distribution in a Lead-Acid Battery Grid Electrode: This 3D model example demonstrates the use of the...		Thermal Modeling of a Cylindrical Li-ion Battery in 3D: This example simulates the heat profile in an air-cooled...
	1D Isothermal Lithium-Ion Battery: This model demonstrates the Lithium-Ion Battery interface for studying the discharge...		Electrode Growth Next to an Insulator: This example shows how to model secondary current distribution and electrode...
	Simulation of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy: A fuel cell unit cell is modeled using the full Butler-Volmer...		Liquid Cooled Lithium Ion Battery Pack: This model simulates a temperature profile in a number of cells and cooling fins...
	Thermal Modeling of a Cylindrical Li-ion Battery in 2D: This model example simulates an air-cooled cylindrical 18650...		Mass Transport and Electrochemical Reaction in a Fuel Cell Cathode: A stationary 3D model of a generic fuel cell cathode...
	Tutorial Model of a Lithium-Ion Battery: The following example is a 2D tutorial model of a lithium-ion battery. The cell...		An Electrokinetic Valve in a Microchannel System: This model presents an example of pressure driven flow and...