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Student Mobility > Programmes and Courses > Courses in English > Course detailsHydrogen and Fuel Cells
- Teaching: Completely taught in English
- ECTS: 4
- Level: Graduate
- Semester: Summer
- Prerequisites:
- Thermodynamics I
- Load:
Lectures Exercises Laboratory exercises Project laboratory Physical education excercises Field exercises Seminar Design exercises Practicum 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 - Course objectives:
- Course of lectures has a goal to make students competent for application of hydrogen and fuel cells in power and transport engineering. Hydrogen production, storage and transport, fuel cell working principles and design as well as fuel cell based energy systems are considered.
- Student responsibilities:
- Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:
- Class attendance and a written exam.
- Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:
- Discussions, lectures and occasional homework. Hydrogen and fuel cells is a professional course that covers manufacturing technology and utilization of hydrogen: hydrocarbon reforming, electrolysis and other newer technologies of hydrogen production, PEM, SOFC, PAFC, AFC and other types of fuel cells and fuel cell systems and applications in the field of energy and transport.
- Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):
- To investigate the perspectives and applications of different types of hydrogen fuel cells depending on the required capacities. To set up and to create own design of hydrogen fuel cells. To suggest type of hydrogen fuel cells which will be coupled into the system with renewable energy sources. To compare the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells application depending on the location. To develop a system of hydrogen production via water electrolysis using solar energy. To select a strategy of introducing hydrogen as an alternative fuel into the sectors of economy. To compare different systems of hydrogen production depending on the available resources at the place where system wants to be installed and to evaluate them due to their environmental impacts.
- Lectures
- 1. Introduction. Transition from hydrocarbon fuels to the pure hydrogen as a fuel and general developing trends and perspective of hydrogen economy. Hydrogen and oxigen availability. Hydrogen and oxigen physical properties. Comparison of hydrogen with other fuels. Hydrogen as energy vector.
- 2. Hydrogen production. Survey and discussion of the commercialy available and future methodes.
- 3. Hydrogen production. Electrolyse and electrolysers. Electrochemical processes. Design. Solid and liquid electrolyte. Electrodes and corosion. Efficiency. Mathematical model.
- 4. Hydrogen production. Hydrocarbons steam reforming and reformers.
- 5. Hydrogen storage. Hydrogen transport. Compressed hydrogen and liquid hydrogen vessels. Vessel capacity calculation.
- 6. Hydrogen storage. Metal hydride. P-C-T characteristic of metal hydride. Hydrogen storage methodes in loping phase.
- 7. Hydrogen use. Fuel cell (FC). Electricity - FC working principle. Heat energy - burning, cogeneration, clean water. FC types (PEM, SOFC, MCFC, AFC, DMFC, PAFC).
- 8. Hydrogen use. PEM FC components and materials. FC stack design. Auxiliary equipment.
- 9. Hydrogen use. PEM FC chemical thermodinamic. Gibbs energy and Nernst equation.
- 10. Hydrogen use. PEM FC electrochemical chinetics. Butler-Volmer equation.
- 11. Sensors and measurement instruments. Hydrogen concentration, emperature, pressure and flow measurement. Messurement of electric properties. Potentiostat measurements.
- 12. Application. Actual examples of the stationary systems. Stationary powerstations 250 kW-2MW, UFC, SIEMENS, small home FC 2-10 kW, Plugpower, Sulzer, Vaillant. Inverters and grid connection.
- 13. Application. Actual examples of transport and portable systems.
- 14. Application. Mathematical model of solar-hydrogen stand-alone FC based power source.
- 15. Safety aspects. Componnent testing, regulations and standards.
- Exercises
- 1. Terminology. Internet resources overview.
- 2. Internet resources overview (Linde, Stuart, Proton, etc.).
- 3. Laboratory: Sources of electricity for electrolyse. Measurement of electrolyser empirical working characteristic.
- 4. Internet resources.
- 5. Internet resources (Dynatek, Thiokol, Quantum). Laboratory: low pressure hydrogen vessel, measurement and calculation comparison.
- 6. Internet resources (DOE data base). Visit to Institute Rudjer Boskovic; Laboratory as alternative.
- 7. Internet resources (Ballard, UTC, MTU etc.).
- 8. Internet resources (E-TEK, Gore, DuPont, Toray).
- 9. Fuel cell calculation.
- 10. Fuel cell calculation.
- 11. Laboratory: Light fibers and optoelectronics for hydrogen and oxigen pressure measurement.
- 12. Internet resources. Laboratory demonstration. of FC based stand-alone power source (SAPS).
- 13. Internet resources.
- 14. Laboratory: Simulation of a given system using Matlab (Simulink tool) programing package.
- 15. Internet resources. Exam.
- Compulsory literature:
- Markvart T., Solar Electricity, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1994.
Hoogers G., Fuel Cell Handbook, CRC Press, London, 2002.
J.H. Hirschenhofer, D.B. Stauffer, R.R. Engleman, and M. G. Klett, FUEL CELL HANDBOOK, US DOE/FETC ââ,¬â€œ 99/1076, 1998. - Recommended literature:
- Reference articles from scientific journals recommended by professor.