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Fuel of the Future - Hydrogen

 

Course No. M-3016

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Credit:  3 PDH  
Course Fee:  $86.85    

Jeffrey Havelin, P.E.

Overview

More people are driving more cars today than ever before.  More than 200 million vehicles are on the road in the U.S. alone.   But the car has contributed to our air and water pollution and forced us to rely on imported oil from the Middle East, helping to create a significant trade imbalance. Today many people think fuel cell technology will play a pivotal role in a new technological renaissance, just as the internal combustion engine vehicle revolutionized life at the beginning of the 20th century. Such innovation would have a global environmental and economic impact.

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells represent a radically different approach to energy conversion, one that could replace conventional power generation technologies like engines and turbines in applications such as automobiles and small power plants.

This course will review the design and theory of hydrogen based fuel cells.  Expanded use of hydrogen as an energy carrier for America could help address concerns about energy security, global climate change, and air quality. Hydrogen can be derived from a variety of domestically available primary sources, including fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear power. Another key benefit is that the by-products of conversion are generally benign for human health and the environment. Despite these compelling benefits, realization of a hydrogen economy faces multiple challenges. Unlike gasoline and natural gas, hydrogen has no existing, large-scale supporting infrastructure—and building one will require major investment. Although hydrogen production, storage, and delivery technologies are currently in commercial use by the chemical and refining industries, existing hydrogen storage and conversion technologies are still too costly for widespread use in energy applications.

 

The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of eighteen (18) questions at the end of this course to obtain PDH credits.

 

Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained

This course reviews the following specific topics:

  • Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell.
  • Electrochemistry of fuel cells
  • Processing Hydrocarbon Fuels into Hydrogen
  • Reformate/air fuel cell “engine” utilizing liquid methanol as fuel
  • Direct methanol fuel cell technology
  • Regenerative Fuel Cell
  • Alkaline fuel cells
  • Phosphoric acid fuel cells
  • Molten carbonate fuel cells
  • Solid oxide fuel cells

 

Course

Click on the following PDF attachment and review Fuel Cells Green Power- Publication LA-UR-99-3231, published by Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract with the US Department of Energy, prior to taking a quiz for credit. You will be quizzed on the attached document in its entirety.

Fuel Cells Green Power (1.0 MB)

 

 

 

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Related Books

 

Renewable Energy:  Power for a Sustainable Future

 

 

 

Prospects for Sustainable Energy

 

 

 

Renewable Energy, 2nd Edition

 

 

 

Renewable Resources for Electric Power

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

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