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How to Estimate Electricity Requirements

How to Estimate Electricity Requirements
When you receive your energy bill each month, you may not understand exactly how the total amount has been calculated. Every device or appliance in yo... Read more

Mathematical Models

Mathematical Models
Mathematical models are a precise description of a problem, process, or technology in the form of mathematics. These models are built to learn more ab... Read more

Battery Energy Storage for the PV System

Battery Energy Storage for the PV System
Batteries store and produce energy as needed. In PV systems, they capture surplus energy generated by your PV system to allow you to store energy for ... Read more

Characteristics and Safety of Hydrogen

Characteristics and Safety of Hydrogen
Hydrogen has many unusual characteristics compared with other elements. Read more

Photovoltaic System Sizing

Photovoltaic System Sizing
This post will help you to determine how to size a photovoltaic (PV) system. By calculating the power, current, and voltage output required, the size ... Read more

Introduction to Fuel Cell Testing

Introduction to Fuel Cell Testing
Those who wish to learn more about fuel cells, and even to build their own, may also want to learn how to test those fuel cells. In this post, we will... Read more

Components of a Photovoltaic System

Components of a Photovoltaic System
Photovoltaic (PV) panels are comprised of individual cells known as solar cells. Each solar cell generates a small amount of electricity. When you con... Read more

Fuel Cell Heat Flow

Fuel Cell Heat Flow
Understanding the flow of heat in a fuel cell is important to design and build a fuel cell properly. The energy that flows into and out of each proces... Read more

the simulation time into time steps of equal duration

the simulation time into time steps of equal duration
To accurately estimate the heat flows in the fuel cell, several types of energy need to be accounted for: (1) the heat transfer through the materials,... Read more

Gas Diffusion Layer: Characteristics and Modeling

Gas Diffusion Layer: Characteristics and Modeling
The gas diffusion layer (GDL) in a fuel cell can consist of a single layer or a double layer (gas diffusion layer and a microporous layer). The GDL is... Read more

Introduction to Solar: Part II

Introduction to Solar: Part II
When a PV cell is exposed to sunlight, the photons of the absorbed sunlight dislodge the electrons from the atoms of the cell. The free electrons then... Read more

Introduction to Solar: Part I

Introduction to Solar: Part I
Most of us are familiar with solar cells because we encounter them every day – in calculators, street lamps, and traffic road signs. If these devices ... Read more

Energy Harnessed from the Wind: Part II

Energy Harnessed from the Wind: Part II
Wind power generates electricity by transferring energy from wind to mechanical energy. The principle behind wind turbines is very simple: the energy ... Read more

Energy Harnessed from the Wind: Part I

Energy Harnessed from the Wind: Part I
Imagine that something that you cannot see can have enough movement to harness energy! From a scientific perspective, air is like any other fluid -... Read more

Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Characterization

Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Characterization
Selecting the appropriate technique to properly characterize the fuel cell is extremely important because it helps the user to understand why the fuel... Read more
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