Fuel Cell Science and Engineering

Detlef Stolten, Bernd Emonts

Wiley-VCH

2012

Abstract

Fuel cells are expected to play a major role in the future power supply that will transform to renewable, decentralized and fluctuating primary energies. At the same time the share of electric power will continually increase at the expense of thermal and mechanical energy not just in transportation, but also in households. Hydrogen as a perfect fuel for fuel cells and an outstanding and efficient means of bulk storage for renewable energy will spearhead this development together with fuel cells. Moreover, small fuel cells hold great potential for portable devices such as gadgets and medical applications such as pacemakers.

This handbook will explore specific fuel cells within and beyond the mainstream development and focuses on materials and production processes for both SOFC and lowtemperature fuel cells, analytics and diagnostics for fuel cells, modeling and simulation as well as balance of plant design and components. As fuel cells are getting increasingly sophisticated and industrially developed the issues of quality assurance and methodology of development are included in this handbook. The contributions to this book come from an international panel of experts from academia, industry, institutions and government.

Table of contents

Part I: Technology

Part II: Materials and Production Processes

Part III: Analytics and Diagnostics

Part IV: Quality Assurance

Citation

Detlef Stolten, Bernd Emonts. Fuel Cell Science and Engineering. Wiley-VCH, 2012