PEM Fuel Cells in Transport Applications
Major Challenges and Latest Improvements
- 1st Edition - April 1, 2026
- Authors: Hadi Heidary, Mahbod Moein-Jahromi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 9 0 9 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 9 1 0 - 0
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… Read more
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.
- Presents existing challenges of PEM fuel cells in transport applications (including passenger cars, buses, trains, and airplanes) and analyses what is needed to achieve commercialization
- Reviews the state-of-the-art progress in performance and volumetric power density, thermal management techniques, water management techniques, cold start, chemical degradations of PEM fuel cell, hydrogen generation storage and transportation, cost of components, and life cycle cost of vehicular PEM fuel cell
- Forecasts the cost of hydrogen generation and life cycle cost of PEM fuel cells in the future through different scenarios
- Analyses the potential, progress, and outlook of high-temperature fuel cells (SOFC and HT-PEMFC) in transportation applications
Graduate students, researchers, and industry engineers in the field of PEM fuel cell commercialization, especially in automotive applications. Possible course adoptions on courses related to "Fuel Cell Technologies and Fuel Cells Electric Vehicles". R&D engineers in fuel cell vehicle manufacturing companies and related component producers
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
8: Cost-Related Issues
9: High-Temperature Fuel Cells in Transportation Applications
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
8: Cost-Related Issues
9: High-Temperature Fuel Cells in Transportation Applications
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Hadi Heidary
Dr. Hadi Heidary is a Marie Skłodowska 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 Skłodowska Curie Action grant (European Union’s flagship funding program) for a proposal entitled “Development of High-Efficient PEM Fuel Cell Stack for Transportation”.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Birmingham, Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UKMM
Mahbod Moein-Jahromi
Dr. Mahbod Moein-Jahromi earned his undergraduate degree (as of the 1st rank student) in Jul. 2010 from Sistan & Bluchestan University. He earned his postgraduate and Ph.D. degree (as a distinguished student (Top 5% of class)) from Amirkabir University of Technology (the 2nd rank university in Iran) in Sep. 2012 and Sep 2018, respectively. His postgraduate thesis (which is about PEM fuel cell and its catalyst layer) was awarded as the top annual research project of Amirkabir University of Technology. He developed his research in his Ph.D. dissertation on the degradation of the PEM fuel cell. Immediately after completing his doctorate, he continued his investigation as an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department of Jahrom University and simultaneously as an adjunct research fellow at the fuel cell laboratory of the mechanical engineering department at the Amirkabir University of Technology.
Affiliations and expertise
Jahrom University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Khalij Fars Avenue, Jahrom University, Jahrom, Iran