Fuel Cells

Shripad T. Revankar is a professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and visiting professor at POSTECH, South Korea, in the Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering. He received his MSc (1977), PhD (1983) in physics from Karnataka University, India, and M.Eng. (1982) in nuclear engineering from McMaster University Canada. He has published more than 300 refereed research papers in journal and conferences, is editor-in-chief of Frontier Energy-Nuclear Energy, serves on the editorial boards of eight international journals including Heat Transfer Engineering, ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology, and is also an ASME Fellow and winner of several awards. Pradip Majumdar is a professor and chair of mechanical engineering, and the director of the Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois. He received his BS degree (1975) in mechanical engineering from B.E College, University of Calcutta, and MS (1980) and PhD (1986) degrees in mechanical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He has worked on a number of federal and industrial research projects and published over 100 refereed research papers in archival journals and conference proceedings. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the Transactions of Fluid Mechanics, International Journal.

Introduction. Review of Electrochemistry. Review of Thermodynamics. Thermodynamics of Electrochemical Fuel Cell. Electrochemical Kinetics. Charge Transport in Fuel Cell. Fuel Cell Characterization. Fuel cell Components and Design. Heat and Mass Transport in Fuel Cell. Gas Flow Channel Analysis and Design. Computational Model for Analysis and Design of Fuel Cell. Dynamic Simulation and Fuel Cell Control System. Fuel Cell Power Generation Systems. Fuel Cell Application, Codes and Standards, and Environmental Effects.