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Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen: An Exergy Approach

By Barclay, Frederick J.

Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen: An Exergy Approach Books

Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen: An Exergy Approach

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Fuel cell technology is the most exciting and legitimate alternative source of power currently available to us as world resources of non–renewable fuel continue to be depleted. No other power generating technology holds the same benefits that fuel cells offer, including high reliability and efficiency, negligible environmental impact, and security of supply. Fuel cells run on hy – the simplest and most plentiful gas in the universe – although they can also run on carbon monoxide, methane, or even coal. Their applications are diverse, from powering automobiles, buildings and portable electronics, to converting methane gas from wastewater plants and landfills into electricity. Fuel Cells, Engines and Hy is a controversial text that challenges the accepted industry parameters for measuring fuel cell performance and efficiency. Based on his inter–disciplinary experience in the fields of power, nuclear power, and desalination, the author contends that the development potential of the fuel cell is related to the quantity fuel chemical exergy, which, like electrical potential, is a quantitative measure of work done. The fuel cell community currently characterises these devices in terms of the enthalpy of combustion (calorific value) – however the author argues a correct, qualitatively different and fourfold larger characterisation is via the fuel chemical exergy, in units of work, and not energy. He asserts that the distortion introduced by this accepted perspective needs to be corrected before relatively efficient fuel cells, integrated with comparatively low performing gas turbines, reach the market. Fuel Cells, Engines and Hy features a foreword by Dr Gerry Agnew, Executive VP Engineering of Rolls Royce Fuel Cells Systems Ltd.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
192
Publication Date:
2014-09-30
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0470030267
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