Fuel Cells ─ Principles, Design, and Analysis

This resource combines—for the first time in a single volume—coverage of basic principles, analysis, and analytical techniques, and design aspects of the fuel cell. It presents fuel cell design at component and system levels, then elaborates on analysis methods for various phenomena associated with components and systems. With its examples, problems, and simulation activities, it makes an excellent graduate text or reference for researchers, engineers, and others involved in energy development. The text guides the reader from foundations and fundamental principles through analysis methods and fuel cell design, demonstrating the latest cutting-edge technology.

Dr. Revankar is a Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Director of Multiphase and Fuel Cell Research Laboratory in the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He received his BS (1975), MS (1977) and Ph.D. (1983) in Physics from Karnatak University, India and M.Eng. (1982) in Nuclear Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He has worked as a post doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and at the Nuclear Engineering Department of University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1987. His current research interests are in multiphase flow and heat transfer, microgravity multiphase flow in packed beds, fuel cell design, simulation and power systems, thermochemical water splitting hydrogen production, reactor thermalhydraulics and safety. He has published over 200 peer reviewed papers in archival journals and conference proceedings. He has received undergraduate teaching award in 2004 and research awards in 2004 and 2005 from Purdue University. He is Life Member of the following societies: American Nuclear Society (ANS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE),and Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT). He is Fellow of ASME. He has hosted various ASME and ANS conferences as sessiona€?s organizer and Track leader. He is active member of Electrochemical Society (ECS). He was Chair of Thermal Hydraulics Division of ANS in 2007-08, currently Chair of ASME K-13 Committee on Heat Transfer in Multiphase Systems, Executive Member of the AIChE Transport and Energy Processes Division, and Chair of the ASEE Nuclear and Radiological Division. He is currently on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Heat Exchangers, Heat Transfer Engineering, Journal of Thermodynamics, and ASME Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology.

Pradip Majumdar holds a M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Eng., (1980) and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, (1986), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois. His research interests include: computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, fuel cell, solar, and other alternative energy systems, hydrogen storage, heat and mass transfer in porous media, micro-nanoscale fluid flow and heat transfer, and high energy laser material processing.