Fuel Cell Power for Transportation
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Author(s): SAE
Publisher: IHS American Technical Publishers
ISBN: 0 7680 0357 1
Format: softback
70pp
Price: £48.00
Review Date: 23 May 2000
Review: This book covers two components of a fuel cell power system: the component's stack, fuel processor and ancillaries; and the engineering of the complete system and its support infrastructure. Fuel cell-powered vehicles will need to feel as if they have a present-day car engine, but new disciplines and techniques will be needed. The system spreads beyond the vehicle itself and includes the fuel infrastructure. For some vehicles special fuels such as methanol and hydrogen offer potential, but the economics of their use continues to be debated. The nine papers published in this book include: The hydrogen fuel option for fuel cell vehicle fleets; The promise of methanol fuel cell vehicles; Supporting fuel cells with power beam surge power units; Recent advances in fuel cells for transportation applications; Compact fuel processors for fuel cell-powered vehicles; Thermodynamic analysis for fuel processing; and Modelling and optimisation of a PEMFC catalyst layer.