Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and electrocatalysts / Richard Esposito and Antonio Conti, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esposito, Richard, 1963-

Conti, Antonio, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

Electrocatalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (475 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents current research in fuel cells which are growing in importance as sources of sustainable energy and are forming part of the changing program of energy resources. Fuel cells provide environmentally friendly, clean and highly efficient energy source for power generation. In order to efficiently utilize the energy from fuel cells, a power conditioning system is required. This book describes the converters' basic operating principles and analyzes performance for low-voltage, high-power fuel cell applications. Full three-dimensional, multi-phase, non-isothermal computational fluid dynamics models of planar and novel tubular-shaped air-breathing proton exchange membrane fuel cell are also presented in detail. Research and review of electrocatalysts such as platinum are presented as well.

Contents:

""POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANEFUEL CELLS AND ELECTROCATALYSTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""SYNTHESIS OF POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANEFOR FUEL CELL APPLICATIONS ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. MATERIALS AND METHODS""; ""2.1 Materials""; ""2.2 Membrane Manufacturing Procedures""; ""3. EVALUATION OF PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE(PEM) PERFORMANCE""; ""3.1 Conductivity""; ""3.1.1 Through-Plane Conductivity Measurements""; ""Advantages""; ""Disadvantages""; ""3.1.2 In-Plane Conductivity Measurements""; ""Advantages""; ""Disadvantages""; ""3.2 Resistance""

""3.3 Theoretical Model to Measure Membrane Conductivity and ResistanceBased on Proton Flow""""3.4 Experimental Set-Up and Procedures""; ""3.4.1 Measurement of Proton Transfer Rate and Membrane Resistance""; ""3.4.2 pH Measuring Process and Calculation of Proton Concentration""; ""3.4.3 Measurement of Proton Transfer""; ""4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS""; ""4.1 Thermal Stability of Membrane Conductivity""; ""4.2 Relative Resistance""; ""4.3 Water Uptake Content""; ""5. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIPOLAR PLATE MATERIALSFOR POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUELCELLS (PEMFC)""

""ABSTRACT""""Keywords:""; ""1. FUEL CELLS""; ""2. POLYMER ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFCS)""; ""2.1 What is PEMFCs?""; ""2.2 Why Are PEMFCs so Important?""; ""2.3 How do PEMFCs Work?""; ""2.3.1 Activation Polarization""; ""2.3.2 Ohmic Polarization""; ""2.3.3 Concentration Polarization""; ""2.3.4 Reactant Crossover and Internal Current Losses""; ""3. BIPOLAR PLATES AND THEIR DESIGN""; ""3.1 What Are the Bipolar Plates?""; ""3.2 Why Are the Bipolar Plates Important?""; ""3.3 Bipolar Plate Design""; ""Pin-Type Flow Field""; ""Straight Flow Field""; ""Serpentine Flow Field""

""Integrated Flow Field""""Interdigitated Flow Field""; ""Flow-Field Designs Made From Metal Sheets""; ""3.4 Materials for Bipolar Plates""; ""3.4.1 Graphite Bipolar Plates""; ""3.4.2 Composite Bipolar Plates""; ""3.4.3 Metallic Bipolar Plates""; ""3.4.3.1 Uncoated Metals""; ""3.4.3.2 Coated Metals""; ""4. CONCLUDING REMARKS""; ""REFERENCE""; ""FUEL CELL CONVERTERSFOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY""; ""A. Basic Principle""; ""B. Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell""; ""C. PEM Fuel Cell System""; ""D. PEM Fuel Cell Performance""

""1. Static Characteristics""""2. Dynamic Characteristics""; ""III. FUEL CELL POWER CONDITIONING""; ""IV. FUEL CELL POWER CONVERTERS""; ""A. Non-Isolated Converter""; ""1. Design Example of 2-Phase Interleaved Fuel Cell Converter [114]""; ""2. Experimental Results of 2-Phase Interleaved Fuel Cell Converter""; ""B. Modified Non-Isolated Converter""; ""C. Ground Isolated Converter""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENT""; ""BIOGRAPHIES""; ""Phatiphat Thounthong""; ""Bernard Davat""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CFD MODELS FOR ANALYSIS AND DESIGNOF AMBIENT AIR-BREATHING PEM FUEL CELLS""; ""ABSTRACT""

""1. INTRODUCTION""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61728-563-3

OCLC:

923654507