Advanced Materials and Technologies for Fuel Cells

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: 2D local control; activation energy; active site degradation; alkaline water electrolysis; anodic overpotential; BSCF; cell design optimization; CFD; CH4 internal reforming; concentration polarization; contamination; cyclic current profile; diamond anvil cell; doped ceria; equation of state; fuel cell application; glass-ceramic; high pressure X-ray powder diffraction; hydrogen consumption scenarios; hydrogen production; impedance spectroscopy; ionic conductivity; IT-SOFC; joining; low-cost ceramics; membrane; mercury intrusion; microbial fuel cell; microfluidic fuel cell; modified fuel utilization; Ohmic resistance; open circuit voltage; oxygen starvation; PEM fuel cell; polymer electrolyte fuel cell; pore size; porosity; powder X-ray diffraction; power density; power supply; pressure drop; Raman spectroscopy; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; reliability; Research and information: general; Rietveld refinement; rSOC; salt; sealants; separator; Sm-doped ceria; SOEC; SOFC; soft drinks; solid oxide fuel cell; solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs); solid oxides fuel cells; tape casting process; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; transient behavior; two-phase process; two-phases flow; useful water; water absorption
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-0539-8
• ISBN: 9783036505381; 3036505393; 9783036505398; 3036505385

Fuel cells are expected to play a relevant role in the transition towards a sustainable-energy-driven world. Although this type of electrochemical system was discovered a long time ago, only in recent years has global energy awareness, together with newly developed materials and available technologies, made such key advances in relation to fuel cell potential and its deployment. It is now unquestionable that fuel cells are recognized, alongside their possibility to work in the reverse mode, as the hub of the new energy deal. Now the questions are, why are they not yet ready to be used, despite the strong economic support given from the society? What prevents them from being entered into the hydrogen energy scenario in which renewable sources will provide energy when it is not readily available? How much are researchers involved in this urgent step towards change? This book gives a clear answer, engaging with some of the open issues that explain the delay of fuel cell deployment and, at the same time, it opens a window that shows how wide and attractive the opportunities offered by this technology are. Papers collected here are not only specialist-oriented but also offer a clear landscape to curious readers and show how challenging the road to the future is.