TY - CHAP
T1 - System design and performance in alkaline direct ethanol fuel cells
AU - Li, Yinshi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Fuel cells that convert the chemical energy stored in a fuel into an electrical energy by electrochemical reactions have been recognized as one of the most promising technologies for the clean energy industry of the future, especially for alkaline direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs), because ethanol is less toxic than methanol and can be massively produced from agricultural products or biomass, in addition to the advantage of high specific energy and quicker electro-kinetics of both the ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media. A considerable amount of effort has been devoted to the development of alkaline membranes and electro-catalystsin alkaline DEFCs, including synthesis of anion-exchange membrane and electro-catalysts, and the mechanism study of both the anodic EOR and cathodic ORR. For given materials, the improvement of the cell performance, however, depends mainly on the system design. This chapter provides a brief review of the development of alkaline DEFCs from the point of view of the system.
AB - Fuel cells that convert the chemical energy stored in a fuel into an electrical energy by electrochemical reactions have been recognized as one of the most promising technologies for the clean energy industry of the future, especially for alkaline direct ethanol fuel cells (DEFCs), because ethanol is less toxic than methanol and can be massively produced from agricultural products or biomass, in addition to the advantage of high specific energy and quicker electro-kinetics of both the ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media. A considerable amount of effort has been devoted to the development of alkaline membranes and electro-catalystsin alkaline DEFCs, including synthesis of anion-exchange membrane and electro-catalysts, and the mechanism study of both the anodic EOR and cathodic ORR. For given materials, the improvement of the cell performance, however, depends mainly on the system design. This chapter provides a brief review of the development of alkaline DEFCs from the point of view of the system.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85044293444
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-71371-7_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-71371-7_7
M3 - 章节
AN - SCOPUS:85044293444
T3 - Lecture Notes in Energy
SP - 217
EP - 247
BT - Lecture Notes in Energy
PB - Springer Verlag
ER -