Celdas De Combustible

Fuel Cell Systems Explained
Second Edition

James Larminie
Oxford Brookes University, UK

Andrew Dicks
University of Queensland, Australia
(Former Principal Scientist, BG Technology, UK)

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Larminie, James.
Fuel cell systems explained / James Larminie, Andrew Dicks. – 2nd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-470-84857-X (alk. paper)
1.Fuel cells. I. Dicks, Andrew. II. Title.
TK2931.L37 2003
621.31 2429 – dc21
2002192419
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Preface
The success of the first edition of Fuel Cell Systems Explained has been shown both by
very pleasing sales and the positive comments of reviewers and critics. Nevertheless, with
fuel cell technology, no one can rest on their laurels,and the last few years have seen
rapid developments in the field, making a second edition necessary.
Although the basic principles of fuel cells remain the same, this new edition provides
the opportunity to describe some of the significant developments that have emerged over
the past three years. Examples are to be found in both low- and high-temperature fuel
cell types. In particular, we haveexpanded our descriptions of the Direct Methanol Fuel
Cell, which has an entirely new chapter of its own (Chapter 6), and the Intermediate
Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, which forms part of an expanded description of hightemperature fuel cells (Chapter 7). We have substantially updated other chapters including
those concerning the proton exchange membrane fuel cell (Chapter 4) and fuel...