Fuel cells

[EddyPach]

Can somebody tell me where I can find information about fuel cells?
thanks in advance

 

[jproj]

EddyPach:

Check these sites out:

http://www.fuelcellonline.com/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/fuel-cell.htm

http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/

I think Perry's (Chemical Engineers Handbook) also has info on fuel cells.

jproj

 

[William8ball]

Checked them out realy cool.Never could get any prices though ,had my eye on a portable 35 watt cell.

 

[kmpillai]

Dear friend,
Please go through the following links and know everything about fuel cells.

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/csr/fuelcells/basics.htm

http://www.ballard.com/

http://www.cfcl.com.au/

http://www.daisanalytic.com/primer.html

http://www.dodfuelcell.com/fcdescriptions.html

http://www.fe.doe.gov/education/

http://www.eyeforfuelcells.com/directory.asp

http://fce.com/site/whatsnew/present.html

http://dc

http://www.epfl.ch/icp/ICP-2/fcell.html

http://www.fct.ca/main.html

http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/

http://www.fuelcells.org/

http://www.ercc.com/

http://www.ectechnic.co.uk/FCINFO.HTML

http://www.globalte.com/index.htm

http://www.h2fc.com/defaultIE4.html

http://www.eren.doe.gov/der/chp/pdfs/eiacom.pdf

http://www.spic.8k.com/index.html

http://www.hfcletter.com/

http://www.hydrogensource.com/technology.html

http://www.hydrovolt.com/Default.htm

http://www.cheresources.com/fuelcell.shtml

http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/fcresources/index.htm

http://www.protonetics.com/PCFC.htm

http://www.eren.doe.gov/hydrogen/docs/direct

http://www.internationalfuelcells.com/

http://www.fuelcellpark.com/

http://www.understandingenergy.com/fuelcells/technical_papers.html

http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid556.php

http://www.netl.doe.gov/

http://www.vok.lth.se/tpe/research/sofc_gt_more.html

regards,
KMPillai

 

[hf5415]

Gents,

Fuel cells surely are a big issue in the press, news and forums everywhere nowadays. Fuel cells and more specific, hydrogen technology, shall solve our energy problems!

This attitude is stupid, because producing hydrogen is the major issue and not to develop fuel cells (by the way, I guess commercially available fuel cells are still less efficient than good conventional power plants).
As long as you gain hydrogen out of oil (state of the art), the whole technology is insanely inefficient.
If you gain hydrogen with the help of regenerative energies (solar, wind), hydrogen technology has to compete with other technologies such as direct conversion into electricity or also biodiesel.

I would like to know more sound figures about efficiencies and comparisons which usually are not published by the hydrogen lobby (for good reasons).

Regards
HF

 

[owg]

Here is an excellent paper on the various routes to automotive propulsion using fuel cells. It tracks efficiency from the well to wheels for various fuels. The source is and independent think tank, The Pembina Institute in Canada.

http://members.rogers.com/fcurry2000/hydrogen.pdf

.

HAZOP at

http://www.curryhydrocarbons.ca

 

[owg]

Sorry about the bad link. This one should work.

http://members.rogers.com/fcurry2000/hydrogen.pdf

HAZOP at

http://www.curryhydrocarbons.ca

 

[hf5415]

Thanks owg, seems like an interesting article, stuff to read for the weekend, maybe I have to re-think some opinions afterwards?!

HF