eLearning Archive: Development Of Fuel Cell Technology for Electric Power Generation
This course is part of our eLearning Archive, which includes older courses that may not be current or as user-friendly as courses designed more recently.
This course presents an overview of the fundamentals of fuel cell engineering and of the history of fuel cell development for electric power applications. The fuel cell uses a catalyzed reaction between a fuel and an oxidizer to directly produce electricity. Its high theoretical efficiency and low temperature operation made it a subject of much study upon its invention ca. 1900, but its relatively high life cycle costs kept it as "solution in search of a problem" for its first half century After completing this course you should have an understanding of: the place of fuel cells among energy conversion technologies, the basic principles of fuel cell electrochemistry, the engineering fundamentals of fuel cell power plants for both transportation and stationary applications, and the differing power system engineering trade-offs that drive the development of fuel cell technology for NASA's manned space program in a direction different than that for applications for "The Hydrogen Economy."
What you will learn:
- Discuss the place of fuel cells among energy conversion technologies
- Consider the basic principles of fuel cell electrochemistry
- Review the engineering fundamentals of fuel cell power plants for both transportation and stationary applications
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Who should attend: Electrical engineer, Network engineer, Data engineer, Design engineer, Hardware engineer, Security engineer, Lead engineer, Project engineer, Product engineer, Software engineer, System, Manufacturing engineer
Instructor
John Scott
John Scott serves as Deputy Chief of the Power Systems Branch at NASA's Lyndon B.Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN: 0-7803-9658-8