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These are fuel cell and sustainable energy related links:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Web Site give a good introduction to fuel cells (36 page publication and web
site) and is recomended by Science Magazine.
http://education.lanl.gov/resources/fuelcells
Unfortunatley there are often problems with the site, so you might try the
NETL site below.
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
http://www.fetc.doe.gov/products/power/fuelcells/overview.html
Fuel Cell Today
The largest fuel cell resource on the web. European, with an involved &
journalistic style. http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/index/
Fuel Cells 2000
"(American) On-line Fuel Cell Information Center" - Lots of Links, Bulletin
Boards, Recruitment, News, etc. http://www.fuelcells.org
Fuel Cell Handbook
Produced on behalf of the American Dept of Energy this is an excellent
introduction to fuel cell systems for engineers. 352 pages, 2.5Mb PDF:
http://www.fuelcells.org/fchandbook.pdf
Imperial College, London
A good introduction to fuel cells including economics (1999): http://www.iccept.ic.ac.uk/pdfs/fuelcell.pdf
Fuel Cells UK
"Provides a focus for the growing UK fuel cell industry and works to foster
its development" http://www.fuelcellsuk.org
Books
There are lots of books available, all of which are fairly similar in that
they present the basics, but vary in their tone and focus. I can't recommend
one over the others, you need to go to a good library (such as the British
Library) and have a look for yourself.
Fuel Cell Systems Explained, Larminie and Dicks, 2000
Fuel Cells and their Applications, Kordesch, 1996
Fuel Cell Systems, Blomen, 1993
Fuel Cell Technology Handbook, Hoogers, 2000
Science and Technology of Ceramic Fuel Cells, Minh, 1995
Handbook of Fuel Cells, Vielstich, Gasteiger & Lamm, 2003 (about
800GBP)
High Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Design and
Applications, Singhal, S.C. & Kendal, K., Elsevier, 2003.
Newsletters/Journals
Fuel Cell Today send out a weekly newsletter, go to the website
to subscribe: http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/index/
Fuel Cells Bulletin is a commercial newsletter published by Elsevier:
http://www.re-focus.net/fcb
Fuel Cell Connection is a newsletter produced monthly by the US Fuel Cell
Council: http://www.usfcc.com
Fuel Cell Catalyst is a newsletter produced quarterly by the US Fuel
Cell Council: http://www.usfcc.com
The Fuel Cell Review published by the Institute of Physics
(UK) is a bi-monthly industry/research journal: http://www.fcr.iop.org
Eighth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium
http://www.grovefuelcell.com
Fifth European Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Forum (Passed)
"Engineering, Materials, Systems & Applications"
1-5 July 2002, Lucerne, Switzerland
http://www.efcf.com/conferences/index.htm
See my write-up
at Fuel Cell Today
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC VIII) (The Electrochemical
Society)
April 27-May 2, 2003, Paris, France.
http://www.electrochem.org/
See my write-up
at Fuel Cell Today
2002 Fuel Cell Seminar
18-21 November 2002, Palm Springs California:
http://www.gofuelcell.com/
Environmental "Cradle to Grave" Analysis of Fuel Cell
Applications (Passed)
Presentations available online at: http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/std/fuelcell/fuelagenda.htm
Second DOE/UN International Conference and Workshop on
Hybrid Power Systems (Passed)
Presentations are available online at:
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/02/Hybrid/hybrid02.html
Includes presentations SOFC from big hitters Siemens Westing house, Rolls-Royce
and GE on their current and future plans for SOFC Hybrid Development .
Exergy Bibliography
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/jjkay/pubs/exergy/biblio.html
Goran Wall - Exergy Specialist
http://exergy.se/
Brief of US Lab and College Energy Technologies
A strange public letter addressed, I assume, to the President, in light of
the CA energy crisis, regarding alternative energy technologies under development.
ht tp://www.ucop.edu/news/archives/2001/feb8art1.htm
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)
The newest Lab, not a lot of independent reasearch - primarily business and
policy. Basic information can be found by searching. NETL has
set up the Solid State Energy Alliance (SECA). Apparently NETL does
produce good reports but they must be purchased.
http://www.netl.doe.gov/index-b.html
Environmnetal Protection Agency (EPA)
Primarily a regulatory body, but with some research activities into applications
(especially landfill and sewage processing methane recovery and utilisation).
Searches pull up basics plus some specific projects. EPA has commited
to conducting comparative life cycle analysis of energy technologies see 'Craddle
to Grave' conference above, actual work is done by others such as ANL and
NRMRL.
http://www.epa.gov/
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
Primarily Transportation Technology. Of great interest is 'The Greenhouse
Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) Model',
which compares the environmnetal impact of an astounding number of fuel and
power production technologies. Also researching solid oxide fuel cells,
direct methanol PEM fuel cells, high temperature sealant materials for fuel
cells and reformers for fuel cells.
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/ttrdc/greet/
Department of Defense (DoD)
Has installed 30 phosphoric acid fuel cells in locations all over the US.
The site gives details of performance, pictures and links to many fuel cell
companies.
http://www.dodfuelcell.com/index.html
National Fuel Cell Research Centre
http://www.nfcrc.uci.edu/
NOTE: I have decided to let this section drop out of date as plenty of other people carry this information. Please see Fuel Cell Today, Fuel Cells 2000 or Fuel Cells UK.
See also ' Fuel Cell Companies Installations
Polymer Electrolyte/Proton Exchange Membrane
Ballard - http://www.ballard.com/
Phosphoric Acid
International Fuel Cells - http://www.ifc.com/
Molten Carbonate
FuelCellEnergy - http://www.fuelcellenergy.com/
Alkali - Metal-Air
Zinc Air Fuel Cells
Evonyx - http://www.evonyx.com
Metallic Power - http://www.metallicpower.com
Aluminium Air Fuel Cells
Aluminium Power - http://www.aluminium-power.com
Web-Site of Dr. Eugenii Katz, Senior Research Associate at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem gives an excellent introduction to electrochemistry through his own pages and through extensive links. http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/
EPA Life Cycle Assesment Centre
"Advancing scientific understanding and the application of Life Cycle Assesment
(LCA) to prevent, remove, and control environmental risks to human health
and ecology through better and more informed decision making" http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/lcaccess
University of Washington & Other North American Institutions
Teaches on LCA and fuel cells. Joyce Cooper is the woman to talk to,
she has put together an info page for many aspects of teaching (&learning)
LCA in North America http://www.me.washington.edu/~cooper/teaching_lca.htm
Life Cycle Air Emissions from Fuel Cells and Gas
Turbines in Power Generation
Gustavo Nadal, MsC Thesis, Imperial College: http://www.iccept.ic.ac.uk/pdfs/nadal.pdf
William Grove - http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/grove.htm
Ceramics and Solid State
Ionics
American Elements
Suppliers of many SOFC components including zirconia. The linked page
gives general information on zirconia http://www.americanelements.com/newpage3.htm
University of Cambridge Material Science & Metallurgy
- Ceramics and Ionic Solids Lecture Notes
Well worth a look. Contains good basic information on ceramics and ionic
solids relevant to fuel cell applications (anode, cathode and electrolyte
materials) including phase diagrams, ionic conduction calculations etc.
PDF: http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/mat1b/1B(D).pdf
Word 6.0: http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/Teaching/mat1b/1B(D).doc
Physical Constants
For a full list of official (CODATA) physical constant values and relations
see the(American) Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards
& Technology : :http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/index.html
Conversion Factors
Provided by Process Associates of America http://www.processassociates.com/process/convert/cf_all.htm
Periodic Table Etc
From the University of Sheffield, England. http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html
Map of Physics
HyperPhysics has got just about everything covered, in a simple yet
scientifically meaningful and very useful manner. From Georgia State University.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Rocky Mountain Institute
Home of Natural Capitalism and the Hypercar - some might consider it "too
good to be true" hippie ideals re-invented, but it is worth a read:
http://www.rmi.org/
World Watch Institute
"Worldwatch is a non profit public policy research organization dedicated
to informing policymakers and the public about emerging global problems and
trends and the complex links between the world economy and its environmental
support systems" http://www.worldwatch.org