Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
A Partial Oxidation Technique for...
...Fuel-Cell Anode Exhaust-Gas Synthesis, paper by Randall S. Gemmen and Edward H. Robey, Jr., U.S. Department of Energy, describes the performance of a gas generator used to synthesize the exhaust gas from the anode of a molten-carbonate fuel cell, PDF file.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/techrpts/gasgen3.pdf
DoDFuelCell ERDC/CERL Programs
Summary of the fuel cell programs managed by the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) / Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL).
http://www.dodfuelcell.com/
Fuel Cell Fact Sheet
Fact sheet on fuel cells published by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, PDF file.
http://www.eesi.org/publications/02.00fuelcell.pdf
Fuel Cell Today
Internet portal with news and information about the fuel cell industry.
http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/index/
Fuel Cells - Green Power
Study guide (PDF file) from the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/mpa/mpa11/Green%20Power.pdf
Fuel Cells for Everyone
Article about the development of economical materials and processes, from Siemens.
http://w4.siemens.de/FuI/en/archiv/zeitschrift/heft2_98/artikel05/index.html
Fuel Cells That Run on Common Fuels
Paper by J.M. Vohs, presented at the 2002 NAE Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309087325/html/3.html#pagetop
Making Electricity With Hydrogen
How to build a fuel cell, for skilled hobbyists, PDF file.
http://www.pacificsites.net/~dglaser/h2/Home_Power/Making_Elect_Hyd35.pdf
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells
Design and operation of the Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell (MCFC).
http://www.dodfuelcell.com/molten.html
The Future of Fuel Cells
Article by Ben Wiens about different types of fuel cells. Includes also a second-law analysis and a comparison of the efficiency with heat engines.
http://www.benwiens.com/energy4.html
The Promise of Methanol Fuel Cell Vehicles
Synopsis of a presentation by Raymond A. Lewis, American Methanol Institute, delivered at the 1999 Environmental Vehicle Conference, Ypsilanti, Mi., USA.
http://www.evworld.com/archives/conferences/env99/rlewis.html
The Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell
Description of the PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane, also called Polymer Electrolyte Membrane) fuel cell; an animated demonstration of the process is also available.
http://www.humboldt.edu/~serc/fc.html
The U.S. Fuel Cell Industry
Offers a directory of fuel cell related companies and organizations in the U.S. -- featuring contact names, addresses, phone numbers, web sites, email addresses, and company descriptions (MS Word doc format). A listing of some fuel cell companies around the world is also available at the bottom of the page.
http://www.fuelcells.org/info/maps.html#company
Waste Not
Microbial fuel cells for generating electricity from waste.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/18may_wastenot.htm?list622019