The Fuel Cell Blog
Blog tags: hydrogen
Impact of Hydrogen Energy in the Next 30 years
Protecting the environment by reducing carbon dioxide emissions and replacing fossil fuels with alternative energy sources is a key motivation for man... Read more
What Hydrogen Storage is Best for Me?
There are a number of different Hydrogen storage options available. The one which is best for you depends on what is most important for your applicati... Read more
The Use of Hydrogen as an Energy Storage System
Many countries around the world have been diligently working towards implementing renewable energy plants for over a decade. According to the Internat... Read more
Why Fuel Cells Lead The Road to Long-Term Sustainability for Vehicles
Fuel cells have now been under development for several decades. Since I first became interested in fuel cells in the 1990’s, I have seen waves of exci... Read more
What’s So Good About Hydrogen?
Hydrogen fuel cells have become increasingly well known. If you haven’t heard of them, you might be a bit behind. But does it even matter if you do ge... Read more
Fuel Cell Buses, Utility Vehicles and Scooters
Fuel cells can be used to power the electric motor of buses, utility vehicles, and electric scooters. The vast majority of these fuel cells use oxygen... Read more
Fuel Cell Vehicles - Automobiles
Fuel cell vehicles (FCV) use fuel cells to power the vehicle’s electric motor. Many FCVs use a fuel cell combined with a battery and supercapacitor to... Read more
How to Predict Fuel Cell Performance
The performance of a fuel cell stack can be estimated using a few equations combined with some input data. A common way of characterizing performance ... Read more
Fuel Cell Reactant Delivery
Small plant components are required to deliver the reactants to the fuel cell with the required conditions. Examples of these components are blowers, ... Read more
Chemical Hydrides
Fuel cells often use compressed hydrogen as the fuel; however, many other hydrogen sources can be used with fuel cells. Chemical hydride storage is an... Read more
Metal Hydrides
Fuel cells usually use compressed hydrogen as the fuel, but there are many other types of fuels that can be used. The type of fuel used depends upon t... Read more
Characteristics and Safety of Hydrogen
Hydrogen has many unusual characteristics compared with other elements. Read more
Explanation of the Thermodynamics Behind Fuel Cell & Electrolyzer Design
Thermodynamics is the study of energy changing from one form to another. Many predictions can be made using thermodynamic equations, and these are ess... Read more
Carbon Nanotubes
There are many novel hydrogen methods that are currently being investigated that offer the potential for higher energy density than conventional metho... Read more
Biological Fuel Cells (BFCs) and the Bio-production of Hydrogen
A biological fuel cell (BFC) or microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a type of fuel cell that converts biochemical energy into electrical energy. Like other t... Read more