Overview
- Editors:
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Felix N. Büchi
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Electrochemistry LaboratoryPaul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
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Minoru Inaba
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Department Molecular Science and Technology, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
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Thomas J. Schmidt
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BASF Fuel Cell GmbH Industrial Park Hoechst, Germany
- No competition exists at this point in time
- There is an intense interest in fuel cell durability with continued interest in fuel cells in general
- Addresses the need to bring durability issues from the commercial sector to the academic sector
- The editors are distinguished in the field and therefore have deep insights to share from their experienced careers in industry
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Stack Components
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Catalysts
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- Kotaro Sasaki, Minhua Shao, Radoslav Adzic
Pages 7-27
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- Paul T. Yu, Wenbin Gu, Jingxin Zhang, Rohit Makharia, Frederick T. Wagner, Hubert A. Gasteiger
Pages 29-53
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Membranes
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- Han Liu, Frank D. Coms, Jingxin Zhang, Hubert A. Gasteiger, Anthony B. LaConti
Pages 71-118
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- Eiji Endoh, Satoru Hommura
Pages 119-132
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- Lorenz Gubler, Günther G. Scherer
Pages 133-155
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GDL
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- David L. Wood III, Rodney L. Borup
Pages 159-195
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MEAs
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- Yu Seung Kim, Piotr Zelenay
Pages 223-240
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Bipolar Plates
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- Joachim Scherer, Daniel Münter, Raimund Ströbel
Pages 243-255
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- Tetsuo Mitani, Kenro Mitsuda
Pages 257-268
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Sealings
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- Ruth Bieringer, Matthias Adler, Stefan Geiss, Michael Viol
Pages 271-281
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Cells and Stack Operation
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Impact of Contaminants
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- Bin Du, Richard Pollard, John F. Elter, Manikandan Ramani
Pages 341-366
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Reliability Testing
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- Michael Hicks, Daniel Pierpont
Pages 385-396
About this book
This book covers a significant number of R&D projects, performed mostly after 2000, devoted to the understanding and prevention of performance degradation processes in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). The extent and severity of performance degradation processes in PEFCs were recognized rather gradually. Indeed, the recognition overlapped with a significant number of industrial dem- strations of fuel cell powered vehicles, which would suggest a degree of technology maturity beyond the resaolution of fundamental failure mechanisms. An intriguing question, therefore, is why has there been this apparent delay in addressing fun- mental performance stability requirements. The apparent answer is that testing of the power system under fully realistic operation conditions was one prerequisite for revealing the nature and extent of some key modes of PEFC stack failure. Such modes of failure were not exposed to a similar degree, or not at all, in earlier tests of PEFC stacks which were not performed under fully relevant conditions, parti- larly such tests which did not include multiple on–off and/or high power–low power cycles typical for transportation and mobile power applications of PEFCs. Long-term testing of PEFCs reported in the early 1990s by both Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ballard Power was performed under conditions of c- stant cell voltage, typically near the maximum power point of the PEFC.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The editors of this book have brought together a strong collection of … topics of PEMFC design and operation, and provide a solid overview of all key aspects of their durability. … for students and new workers in the field, this book could serve as a short course which allows them to critically read the literature and to understand the conference papers on the subject from a solid frame of reference.” (David A. Schiraldi, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 210, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
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Electrochemistry LaboratoryPaul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Felix N. Büchi
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Department Molecular Science and Technology, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
Minoru Inaba
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BASF Fuel Cell GmbH Industrial Park Hoechst, Germany
Thomas J. Schmidt
