Designing and Building Fuel Cells equips you with a hands-on guide for the design, modeling, and construction of fuel cells that perform as well or better than some of the best fuel cells on the market today.

Authoritative and practical, Designing and Building Fuel Cells features:

• Complete information on stack design
• The latest fuel cell modeling techniques
• Guidance on cutting-edge materials and components
• Expert accounts of fuel cell types, processing, and optimization
• A step-by-step example for constructing a fuel cell
• Inside This State-of-the-Art Fuel Cell Sourcebook

Contents

1. An Introduction to Fuel Cells
2. Fuel Cells and the Hydrogen Economy
3. Fuel Cells Types
4. Basic Fuel Cell Chemistry and Thermodynamics
5. Fuel Cell Applications
6. Basic Fuel Cell Thermodynamics
7. Fuel Cell Charge Transport
8. Fuel Cell Mass Transport
9. Heat Transfer
10. Fuel Cell Modeling
11. Fuel Cell Materials
12. Fuel Cell Stack Components and Materials
13. Fuel Cell Stack Design
14. Fuel Cell System Design
15. Fuel Types, Delivery, and Processing
16. Fuel Cell Operating Conditions
17. Fuel Cell Characterization

Appendices

• Useful Constants and Conversions
• Thermodynamic Properties of Selected Substances
• Molecular Weight, Gas Constant and Specific Heat for Selected Substances
• Gas Specific Heats at Various Temperatures
• Specific Heat for Saturated Liquid Water at Various Temperatures
• Thermodynamic Data for Selected Fuel Cell Reactants at Various Temperatures
• Binary Diffusion Coefficients for Selected Fuel Cell Substances
• Product Design Specifications
• Fuel Cell Design Requirements and Parameters

Index

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