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Hydrogen Technology

Mobile and Portable Applications

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Aline Léon

    1. Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

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  • The state of the art in fuel cell applications
  • Focus on the hydrogen technology in automotive industry - the future of cars

Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-7
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  2. Hydrogen Cycle

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Introduction

      • Aline Léon
      Pages 11-13

    3. Hydrogen Production

      • Stanko Hočevar, William Summers
      Pages 15-79

    4. Hydrogen Storage

      • Aline Léon
      Pages 81-128

    5. Hydrogen Transport and Distribution

      • Mathilde Weber, Jérôme Perrin
      Pages 129-149

    6. Fuel Cells

      • Jens Oluf Jensen, Qingfeng Li
      Pages 151-184

  3. State of the Art Mobile Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Challenges and Requirements for Car Industry

      • Oliver Kircher, Holger Braess
      Pages 187-205

    3. Status on Existing Technologies

      • Ted Hollinger, Tapan Bose
      Pages 207-233

    4. Hybrid is a Key Technology for Future Automobiles

      • Ken Tanoue, Hiromichi Yanagihara, Hidetoshi Kusumi
      Pages 235-272

    5. Fuel Cell Vehicles: Fundamentals, System Efficiencies, Technology Development, and Demonstration Projects

      • Rittmar von Helmolt, Ulrich Eberle
      Pages 273-290

    6. Development of Storage Tanks

      • Neel Sirosh, Alan Niedzwiecki
      Pages 291-310

    7. Cryogenic Reservoirs

      • Friedel Michel
      Pages 311-333

    8. Safety Analysis of Hydrogen Vehicles and Infrastructure

      • Wolfgang Breitung
      Pages 335-376

  4. State of the Art Portable Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 377-377
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    2. Introduction

      • Aline Léon
      Pages 379-379

    3. Status of Existing Technologies

      • Robert Hahn
      Pages 381-408

    4. Development of Portable Systems

      • Robert Hahn
      Pages 409-438

    5. Challenges for the Industry

      • Matthias Bronold
      Pages 439-450
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Aline Leon ´ In the last years, public attention was increasingly shifted by the media and world governmentsto the conceptsof saving energy,reducingpollution,protectingthe - vironment, and developing long-term energy supply solutions. In parallel, research funding relating to alternative fuels and energy carriers is increasing on both - tional and international levels. Why has future energy supply become such a matter of concern? The reasons are the problems created by the world’s current energy supply s- tem which is mainly based on fossil fuels. In fact, the energystored in hydrocarb- based solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels was, is, and will be widely consumed for internal combustion engine-based transportation, for electricity and heat generation in residential and industrial sectors, and for the production of fertilizers in agric- ture, as it is convenient, abundant, and cheap. However, such a widespread use of fossil fuels by a constantly growing world population (from 2. 3 billion in 1939 to 6. 5 billion in 2006) gives rise to the two problems of oil supply and environmental degradation. The problemrelated to oil supply is caused by the fact that fossil fuels are not - newable primary energy sources: This means that since the rst barrel of petroleum has been pumped out from the ground, we have been exhausting a heritage given by nature.

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  • Institut für Nanotechnologie, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

    Aline Léon

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