Goals for this week

Finish building remainder of chambers to bring us up to a total of 9 working fuel cells
Configure Kiethley/LabVIEW to support measurement from 9 fuel cells
Run test with 9 identical wt chambers to test for reproducibility of results
- Use argon instead of nitrogen on anode side

Monday: July 28, 2008

Clean and re-build fuel cells in preparation for experiment
- Reused cathodes, but replaced Nafion membrane and anode
Placed built fuel cells under UV light to prevent contamination

Variance Test with Shaking

What we did:

-Tested how much variance existed among chambers by running 9 parallel chambers with wt Shewie

-Switched nitrogen gas with argon gas on the anode side

-Shook chamber 1 manually to see the effect of shaking on current production

Results:

-Current production range was between 50-75 microAmps

-Red line (wt w/ shaking) went up to 500 microAmps when shaking vigorously

-Shows that shaking directly affects current production