Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for a Sustainable Future
- 1st Edition - November 13, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Anuj Kumar, Ram K. Gupta
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 3 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 0 3 9 - 3
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Request a sales quoteFuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for Sustainable Future presents an up-to-date review of the latest advancements in fuel cell technology and materials, including a comprehensive examination of the synthesis, characterization, and application of electrode materials for fuel cells. With a focus on the fundamentals of electrochemical behavior and their relevance to fuel cells, the book delves into novel techniques and advanced technologies currently being employed in the field.
Presenting a well-defined theoretical approach to the design of new electrocatalysts, the book provides extensive information on the designs and modeling of electrocatalysts and catalyst layers for the PEMCs, the fundamentals of PEMFCs working, catalyst deterioration and diagnosis, and techniques for reducing failure modes. Sustainability and cost considerations are included throughout. In addition, it discusses promising and significant future directions for fuel cells development. Within each chapter, detailed figures, images, and reference data have been included to make the book accessible for new entrants to the topic.
- Summarizes the state-of-the-art progress on fuel cell technology and materials
- Presents synthesis, characterization, and applications of electrode materials for fuel cells
- Explains the fundamentals of electrochemical behavior and how it relates to fuel cells
- Offers novel methods and advanced technologies used in fuel cell technology
Students, researchers, and engineers working in the fields of fuel cells, including material scientists, electrochemical engineers, and chemists who are interested in the development, design, and optimization of fuel cells
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Chapter 1. Basics of fuel cells
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Fuel cells-types, cell components, materials, and chemistry
- 1.3 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2. Thermodynamic chemistry of proton exchange membrane fuel cell
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Heat of reaction
- 2.3 Reversible fuel cell potential
- 2.4 Open circuit voltage
- 2.5 Fuel cell efficiency
- 2.6 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. Electrode kinetics
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Reaction rate
- 3.3 Exchange current density
- 3.4 Arrhenius equation and transition state theory
- 3.5 Butler-Volmer equation
- 3.6 Butler-Volmer model of kinetics
- 3.7 Activation overpotential
- 3.8 Tafel equation
- 3.9 Significance of exchange current density
- 3.10 Significance of charge transfer coefficient
- 3.11 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4. Concentration polarization
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Transport phenomenon in fuel cells
- 4.3 Revisiting some of the basic concepts
- 4.4 Concept of average and diffusion velocity
- 4.5 Diffusion law
- 4.6 Newton's law of viscosity (momentum transport)
- 4.7 Fourier’s law
- 4.8 Quantifying concentration polarization
- 4.9 Nernst equation analysis
- 4.10 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5. Characterization of fuel cells
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 In-situ characterization techniques
- 5.3 Ex-situ characterization techniques
- 5.4 Porosity measurements
- 5.5 BET surface area measurements
- 5.6 Gas permeability studies
- 5.7 Structure investigations
- 5.8 Chemical investigations
- 5.9 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6. Electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction
- 6.3 Oxygen reduction reaction kinetics
- 6.4 Oxygen reduction reaction mechanisms
- 6.5 Factors affecting oxygen reduction reaction
- 6.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7. Emerging materials for oxygen reduction reaction
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Noble-metal-based ORR electrocatalysts
- 7.3 Noble metal-free ORR electrocatalysts
- 7.4 Atomically dispersed metals-based catalysts for ORR
- 7.5 Molecular catalysts for ORR
- 7.6 Conclusion and perspectives
- References
- Chapter 8. Electrocatalytic hydrogen oxidation reaction
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Electrochemical hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 8.3 Kinetics of the hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 8.4 Factors affecting hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 8.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9. Emerging materials for hydrogen oxidation reaction
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Noble metal-based catalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 9.3 Non-noble metal-based catalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 9.4 Atomically dispersed metals-based catalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 9.5 Molecular catalysts for hydrogen oxidation reaction
- 9.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10. Electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol and ethanol
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Methanol electrooxidation
- 10.3 Ethanol electrooxidation
- 10.4 Factors affecting oxidation of methanol and ethanol
- 10.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 11. Emerging materials for alcohol oxidation reaction
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Nobel metal-based catalysts for AOR
- 11.3 Non-nobel metal-based catalysts for AOR
- 11.4 Atomically dispersed metals-based catalysts for AOR
- 11.5 Molecular catalysts for AOR
- 11.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 12. Single-atom catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction and alcohol oxidation reaction
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 ORR scaling relationship with single-atom catalysts
- 12.3 Strategies to break scaling relationship for oxygen reduction reaction
- 12.4 Optimization for single-atom catalysts
- 12.5 Carbon and noncarbon supported single-atom catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction
- 12.6 Single-atom catalysts for alcohol oxidation reaction
- 12.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13. Dual-atom catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction and alcohol oxidation reaction
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Breaking the ORR scaling relationship with dual-atom catalysts
- 13.3 Optimization for dual-atom catalysts
- 13.4 Calculations using DFT and machine learning for predicting effective DACs
- 13.5 Optimization of electronic and geometric structure
- 13.6 Optimization of synthesis method
- 13.7 Advances in dual-atom catalysts for ORR
- 13.8 Bonded dual-atom ORR catalysts
- 13.9 Dual-atom catalysts for AOR
- 13.10 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 13, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 575
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443240386
- eBook ISBN: 9780443240393
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Anuj Kumar
Anuj Kumar obtained an M.Tech. in Instrumentation from the Indian Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2004 and a PhD in Embedded Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2011. Between 2011 and 2015, he held posts as a Postdoc Fellow at the University of Seoul, the University of Pretoria, and the National University of Singapore. He has been working on devices to monitor indoor air quality and to tackle associated problems for the past 15 years. His research interests include sensing applications, wireless sensor-actuator networks, energy-efficient buildings, and the Internet of Things applied to building physics.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Chemistry, GLA University, Mathura, IndiaRG
Ram K. Gupta
Dr. Ram Gupta is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University. He is the Director of Research at the National Institute for Materials Advancement (NIMA). Dr. Gupta has been recently named by Stanford University as being among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide. Before joining Pittsburg State University, he worked as an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, MO then as a Senior Research Scientist at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC. Dr. Gupta’s research spans a range of subjects critical to current and future societal needs including: semiconducting materials & devices, biopolymers, flame-retardant polymers, green energy production & storage using nanostructured materials & conducting polymers, electrocatalysts, optoelectronics & photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, biocompatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold & antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS, USARead Fuel Cells Technology and Electrode Materials for a Sustainable Future on ScienceDirect