@inproceedings{CleesKlaassenNikitinetal.2019, author = {Tanja Clees and Bernhard Klaassen and Igor Nikitin and Lialia Nikitina and Sabine Pott and Ulrike Krewer and Theresa Haisch}, title = {Model Reduction in the Design of Alkaline Methanol Fuel Cells}, series = {R{\"u}ckemann, Doytsher et al. (Hg.): INFOCOMP 2019, The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation, Nice, France, July 28 - August 2, 2019}, publisher = {ThinkMind}, isbn = {978-1-61208-732-0}, pages = {21 -- 22}, year = {2019}, abstract = {It is shown that the electrochemical kinetics of alkaline methanol oxidation can be reduced by setting certain fast reactions contained in it to a steady state. As a result, the underlying system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) is transformed to a system of Differential-Algebraic Equations (DAE). We measure the precision characteristics of such transformation and discuss the consequences of the obtained model reduction.}, language = {en} }