PEM Fuel Cells in Transport Applications

Auteur

Dr. Hadi Heidary is a Marie Sk odowska Curie Research Fellow in the Birmingham Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research, based in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham, UK. He received his master's degree from the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology and his BSc and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), two top universities in Iran. Totally, he has published over 25 journal papers in high-impact journals (15 as first-author) with many of them with impact factors over 5 and presented 11 papers at international conferences. The total number of citations on his publications (Google Scholar) is over 900 (with an annual increasing rate). Recently, he has won Marie Sk odowska Curie Action grant (European Union's flagship funding program) for a proposal entitled "Development of High-Efficient PEM Fuel Cell Stack for Transportation?.

Texte du rabat

PEM Fuel Cells in Transport Applications: Major Challenges and Latest Improvements presents a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and solutions to the application of PEM fuel cells as a potential replacement for internal combustion engines. It identifies the challenges across all aspects of PEMFC and provides solutions to these problems based on the latest theoretical and experimental advances in research and industry. The first chapter of the book reviews fuel cell mechanisms, types, applications, and current status, and identifies the most significant challenges in the commercialization of PEM fuel cells, including insufficient performance and low volumetric power density, thermal management, water management, cold start, low durability, automotive degradation, hydrogen production, storage, transportation, and infrastructure, fuel cell cost, and life cycle cost of vehicular PEM fuel cell. Car, bus, train, and airplane applications are considered. The subsequent chapters address these challenges, identifying specific solutions and the improvements that can be made. The book also provides an in-depth analysis of mass production and discusses the progress made by researchers and manufacturers, both theoretical and experimental. Finally, the potential of high temperature fuel cells (SOFC and HT-PEMFC) are considered, including the application in transport, their advantages, challenges, life-cycle cost, and future potential. A comprehensive analysis of the current challenges and potential solutions to commercialization, PEM Fuel Cells in Transport Applications: Major Challenges and Latest Improvements is an invaluable and comprehensive reference for students, researchers, and industry engineers and professionals involved in all aspects of fuel cells development. It will be of particular interest to those working on commercialization for PEMFCs.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Performance and Power Density Improvement of PEM Fuel Cells 3. Thermal Management of PEM Fuel Cells 4. Water Management of PEM Fuel Cells 5. Cold Start 6. Degradation of PEM Fuel Cells Under Automotive Conditions 7. Hydrogen Generation, Storage, and Transportation Issues