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Advances in chemical engineering. Volume 41, Fuel cell engineering /
Fuel cells are attractive electrochemical energy converters featuring potentially very high thermodynamic efficiency factors. The focus of this volume of Advances in Chemical Engineering is on quantitative approaches, particularly based on chemical engineering principles, to analyze, control and opt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Diego : Amsterdam :
Academic Press ; Elsevier,
2012.
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| Colección: | Advances in chemical engineering ;
v. 41. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Chemical Engineering : Fuel Cell Engineering; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Fuel Processing for Fuel Cells; 1 Introduction; 2 Requirements on Fuel Quality; 3 Primary Fuels; 3.1 Hydrogen as a primary fuel; 3.2 Fuels from coal; 3.3 Fuels from crude oil; 3.3.1 Liquefied petroleum gas; 3.3.2 Gasoline; 3.3.3 Diesel; 3.3.4 Kerosene; 3.4 Fuels from natural gas; 3.4.1 Propane; 3.4.2 Methanol; 3.4.3 Ethanol; 3.5 Fuels from biomass; 3.5.1 Biodiesel; 3.5.2 Ethanol; 3.5.3 Methanol; 4 Fuel Processing Technologies for Fuel Cell Applications
- 4.1 Cleaning of the primary fuel-Desulfurization, pre-reforming/cracking of large hydrocarbons4.2 Conversion of hydrocarbon fuels to hydrogen; 4.2.1 Natural gas; 4.2.2 Methanol; 4.2.3 Ethanol; 4.2.4 Gasoline; 4.2.5 Diesel; 4.3 Product clean-up and optimization-Shift catalysts and CO polishing; 5 Current Technologies; 5.1 Field of application; 5.2 Fields of application for fuel cell types; 5.3 Balance of plant; 6 Approaches for Modeling Fuel Processing; 6.1 Modeling the rate of heterogeneous catalytic reactions; 6.2 Modeling the rate of homogeneous reactions in the gas phase
- 6.3 Coupling of chemistry with mass and heat transport6.4 Modeling the dynamics of monolithic catalytic reformers; 6.5 Mathematical optimization of reformer design and operating conditions; 7 Applications of Model-Based Approaches; 7.1 Understanding the reaction networks of fuel reforming; 7.1.1 Reaction networks in the reforming of methane; 7.1.2 Reaction networks in the reforming of iso-octane; 7.2 Predicting and controlling coking in fuel reformers; 7.2.1 Catalyst deactivation due to coking; 7.2.2 Quantitative model prediction of formation of coke precursors in the gas phase
- 7.3 Impact of the flow rate on reforming efficiency7.4 Understanding the dynamics of catalytic monoliths-CPOX of methane; 7.5 Model-based optimization of fuel processor design; 8 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells; 1 Introduction; 2 Fundamentals of Fuel Cells; 2.1 Thermodynamics; 2.2 Kinetics; 2.3 Conservation and transport; 2.3.1 Material; 2.3.2 Charge; 2.3.3 Momentum; 2.3.4 Energy; 3 Modeling Aspects of Fuel Cells; 3.1 Membrane; 3.1.1 Governing equations; 3.1.2 Water content and transport properties; 3.1.3 Multi-ion transport
- 3.2 Porous media3.2.1 Multiphase flow; 3.2.2 Pore-network models; 3.3 Catalyst layers; 3.4 Gas flow channels and flowfields; 3.5 Boundary conditions and summary; 3.6 Impedance modeling; 4 Optimization; 4.1 Single-parameter optimization; 4.1.1 Influence of cell operating conditions on performance; 4.1.2 Influence of physical and transport properties on cell performance; 4.2 Multiparameter optimization; 5 Summary; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Direct Methanol Fuel Cells; 1 Introduction; 2 Principles of Operation of the DMFC; 2.1 Anodic oxidation of methanol