PEM Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Modeling, and Applications

PEM Fuel Cells - Fundamentals, Modeling and Applications. Maher A.R. Sadiq Al-Baghdadi, Author Fuel cell system is an advanced power system for the future that is sustainable, clean and environmental friendly. Fuel cells are growing in importance as sources of sustainable energy and will doubtless form part of the changing programme of energy resources in the future. Fuel cells are still undergoing intense development, and the combination of new and optimized materials, improved product development, novel architectures, more efficient transport processes, and design optimization and integration are expected to lead to major gains in performance, efficiency, reliability, manufacturability and cost-effectiveness. Among all kinds of fuel cells, proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are compact and lightweight, work at low temperatures with a high output power density and low environmental impact, and offer superior system startup and shutdown performance. These advantages have sparked development efforts in various quarters of industry to open up new field of applications for PEM fuel cells, including transportation power supplies, compact cogeneration stationary power supplies, portable power supplies, and emergency and disaster backup power supplies. Three key issues limiting the widespread commercialization of PEM fuel cell technology are better performance, long cell life, and lower cost. Part I: Fundamentals Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: PEM fuel cell thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and performance. Chapter 3: PEM fuel cell components. Chapter 4: PEM fuel cell failure modes. Part II: Modeling and Simulation Chapter 5: PEM fuel cell models based on semi-empirical simulation. Chapter 6: PEM fuel cell models based on computational fluid dynamics. Part III: Applications Chapter 7: PEM fuel cell system design and applications. The book is intended to serve as a reference for the engineering students, postgraduate students, and researchers.