Abstract:
Titanium foil has high corrosion resistance, conductivity, and specific strength, making it an ideal candidate material for bipolar plate,the key component of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Stamping technology is a high-precision and high-efficiency processing method for preparing bipolar plate microchannels. However, there are still forming defects such as rebound and rupture in the single pass stamping of industrial pure titanium foil at room temperature. In response to the above issues, this study uses high purity titanium foil as raw material and conducts single pass stamping at room temperature under different stamping rates and load pressures to prepare bipolar plates. The results show that under the same load pressure, the maximum thickness thinning rate of the runner is the smallest at 0.003 0 mm·s
-1 stamping speed, which is only 13.05%. At this time, both the runner depth and aspect ratio are at the relatively high level. Under the same stamping rate, the runner depth and aspect ratio increase with the increase of load pressure. However, the higher load pressure will lead to significant increase of the maximum thickness thinning rate, which can reach to 66.71% under 75 kN load pressure. When the stamping rate is 0.003 0 mm·s
-1 and the load pressure is 50 kN, the high purity titanium foil bipolar plate has better forming dimensions. This study demonstrates that the room temperature single pass stamping forming process for manufacturing bipolar plates with high purity titanium foil is feasible, which can provide certain references for the industrial production and large scale application of high purity titanium foil bipolar plates.