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Fuel Cell Handbook Update
CONTRACT INFORMATION
Contract Number
Contractor
DE - AC01 - 88FE61684
Gilbert/Commonwealth, Inc.
P.O. Box 1498
Reading, PA 19603
(215)775-2600Contractor Project Manager
Principal Investigators
William R. Owens
John H. Hirschenhofer
Ronald R. Engleman Jr.
David B. StaufferMETC Project Manager
Period of Performance
OBJECTIVES
The objective of this work was to update
the 1988 version of DOE's Fuel Cell
Handbook. Significant developments in the
various fuel cell technologies required
revisions to reflect state-of-the-art
configurations and performance. The
theoretical presentation was refined in order to
make the handbook more useful to both the
casual reader and fuel cell or systems analyst.
In order to further emphasize the practical
application of fuel cell technologies, the system
integration information was expanded. In
addition, practical elements, such as
suggestions and guidelines to approximate fuel
cell performance, were provided.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
In 1980 the Institute of Gas Technology
(IGT) published the "Handbook of Fuel Cell
Performance" under a DOE contract. This
document was later revised in 1988 under
another DOE contract by Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratory to become "Fuel Cells, ADiane T. Hooie
June 15, 1992 to June 25, 1993
Handbook". These previous publications serve
as the basis for this latest version.
The current version has the same
format and organization of the 1988 handbook.
Specific information from the 1988 handbook
was also retained where applicable. It was
determined, however, that the scope of the
handbook should be adjusted for an expanded
audience. The increased interest in fuel cells
by those not directly familiar with the
technology or those interested in potentially
using the technology requires a more practical
and applications oriented approach.
Some of the more detailed
electrochemical information that appeared in
the 1988 handbook was removed. The
theoretical background that was emphasized in
the 1988 handbook was replaced by
information concerning performance
predictions of fuel cell technologies. The use
of experimentally based equations to clearly
define important operating parameters was
drawn from the 1980 version of the handbook.
Recent experimentally derived data was used
to update the coefficients of these equations.
Data was gathered from a variety of sourcesP18
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Owens, W. R.; Hirschenhofer, J. H.; Engleman, R. R. Jr. & Stauffer, D. B. Fuel Cell Handbook update, article, November 1, 1993; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1274064/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.