Fuel cell systems explained
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| Other Authors | |
| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
| Published |
Chichester, West Sussex :
J. Wiley,
©2003.
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| Edition | 2nd ed. |
| Subjects | |
| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 1591248078 9781591248071 9781118878330 1118878337 047084857X 9780470848579 |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 406 pages) : illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Hydrogen Fuel Cells--Basic Principles
- What Limits the Current?
- Connecting Cells in Series--the Bipolar Plate
- Gas Supply and Cooling
- Fuel Cell Types
- Other Cells--Some Fuel Cells, Some Not
- Biological fuel cells
- Metal/air cells
- Redox flow cells or regenerative fuel cells
- Other Parts of a Fuel Cell System
- Figures Used to Compare Systems
- Advantages and Applications
- Efficiency and Open Circuit Voltage
- Energy and the EMF of the Hydrogen Fuel Cell
- The Open Circuit Voltage of Other Fuel Cells and Batteries
- Efficiency and Efficiency Limits
- Efficiency and the Fuel Cell Voltage
- The Effect of Pressure and Gas Concentration
- The Nernst equation
- Hydrogen partial pressure
- Fuel and oxidant utilisation
- System pressure
- An application--blood alcohol measurement
- Operational Fuel Cell Voltages
- Terminology
- Fuel Cell Irreversibilities--Causes of Voltage Drop
- Activation Losses
- The Tafel equation
- The constants in the Tafel equation
- Reducing the activation overvoltage
- Summary of activation overvoltage
- Fuel Crossover and Internal Currents
- Ohmic Losses
- Mass Transport or Concentration Losses
- Combining the Irreversibilities
- The Charge Double Layer
- Distinguishing the Different Irreversibilities
- Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
- How the Polymer Electrolyte Works
- Electrodes and Electrode Structure
- Water Management in the PEMFC
- Overview of the problem
- Airflow and water evaporation
- Humidity of PEMFC air.