Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications

Tom Smolinka is the Head of Department for “Chemical Energy Storage” at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany. Since 2000, he has been working in the field of hydrogen technologies (fuel cells, electrolysis, solar hydrogen production and redox flow batteries). Jürgen Garche, graduated in chemistry at the Dresden University of Technology (DTU) in Germany in 1967. He was awarded his PhD in theoretical electrochemistry in 1970 and his habilitation in applied electrochemistry in 1980 from the same university. He worked at the DTU in the Electrochemical Power Sources Group for many years in different projects, mainly related to conventional batteries, before he moved 1991 to the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm, where he was, until 2004, the Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Division. He was Professor of Electrochemistry at Ulm University and Guest Professor at Shandong University – China, 2005, Sapienca University Roma - Italy, 2009, 2013, 2016, and 2023, TUM-CREATE – Singapore, 2014, 2015, 2016- 2016, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics - China, 2016, CNR Institute for Advanced Energy Technologies, Messina - Italy, 2019. After he retired from the ZSW he founded in 2004 the consulting firm Fuel Cell and Battery Consulting (FCBAT). Since 2015 he is senior professor at Ulm University. He has published more than 300 papers, 10 patents, and 11 books, among others as editor-in-chief of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. He is listed in “World’s most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomas Reuters (2014) and in the book “Profiles of 93 Influential Electrochemists” (2015).

1. The importance of water electrolysis for our future energy system
2. Basics of water electrolysis
3. Comparison with other hydrogen production processes
4. Historical outline of water electrolysis
5. Alkaline water electrolysis (AWE)
6. PEM water electrolysis (PEMWE)
7. High-temperature steam electrolysis (SOSE)
8. Chlor-alkali electrolysis
9. Seawater electrolysis
10. Economics of water electrolysis
11. Regenerative FCs
12. Selected projects for system integration
13. Hydrogen storage