Fuel Cells
Barclay

A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen fuel and oxygen from the air to produce electricity, heat and water. Because fuel cells operate without combustion, they are relatively pollution free. The fuel cell itself has no moving parts, and is thus a potentially quiet and reliable source of power.In this excellent text, Fred Barclay challenges the accepted industry parameters for measuring fuel cell performance and efficiency - reviewing fuel cell technology from the outside, based on his inter-disciplinary experience in the fields of power, nuclear power, and desalination. His contention is that the development potential of the fuel cell is related to the quantity fuel chemical exergy, which, like electrical potential, is an amount of work done. The fuel cell community is characterising these devices in terms of the enthalpy of combustion (calorifc value) - when a more accurate characterisation is via the fuel chemical exergy, in units of work, not of 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

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Popularnonaukowe
ISBN: 978-0-470-01904-7
Liczba stron: 0