Welcome to the fuel cell curriculum project web site. The goal of
this project is to develop modules that tie in fuel cell technology
into the traditional chemical engineering undergraduate curriculum.
The site allows chemical engineering faculty members around the world
to have easy access to these modules.
This project is partially supported by the CACHE
(Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering) organization.
J. Keith is partially supported by the
National Science Foundation (DMI-0456537), Department of Energy
DE-FG02-04ER63821), and the Michigan Space Grant Consortium.
D. Chmielewski is partially supported by the Argonne National Laboratory.
H. S. Fogler is partially supported by the Vennema Professorship and Thurnau
Professorships at the University of Michigan.
Members of the fuel cell task force are:
Scott Fogler (University of Michigan)
Jason Keith (Michigan Technological University)
Don Chmielewski (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Mike Gross (Bucknell University)
David Allen (University of Texas at Austin)
This site is organized as follows: there is a link, or hot button, to
individual Chemical Engineering course titles. From these courses are
links to specific modules. Each module has a descriptive title, course,
text reference, concepts of the module, and module authors and
affiliations.
The module format is described
here.
Furthermore, each module has a brief motivation, has a problem statement,
example problem, link to problems in previous courses, link to a reference
section on how a fuel cell works, links to any hints, and a password
protected link to the instructor solution. There are also notes to the
instructor, links to web resources, and a listing of textbook references
that the students may wish to access if they want additional information
regarding fuel cells.
Courses:
Material and Energy Balances (Stoichiometry)
Module 1 (final draft): Heat of Formation for Fuel Cell
Applications
Module 2 (final draft): Material Balances in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Module 3 (final draft): Energy Balances in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Module 4 (final draft): Generation of Electricity Using Recovered
Hydrogen
Thermodynamics
Module 5 (final draft): Equation of State for Hydrogen Fuel
Module 6 (final draft):
Equilibrium Coefficient and Van't Hoff Equation for Fuel Cell Efficiency
Module 7 (final draft): Fuel Cell Efficiency
Module 8 (final draft): Vapor Pressure / Humidity for Fuel Cell Gases
Module 9 (final draft): Nernst Equation
Fluid Mechanics
Module 10 (final draft): Pressure Drop in Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate Channel
Module 11 (initial draft): Finite Difference Method for Flow in a
Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate
Heat and Mass Transport
Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer
Microscopic Balances Applied to Fuel Cells
Diffusion Coefficients for Fuel Cell Gases
Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
Nernst Equation and Fuel Cell Kinetics
Using Plug Flow Reactor Equations for Fuel Cell Voltages
Other courses under construction
Resources
Web Resources:
Los Alamos National Lab
Ballard
Textbook Resources:
Larminie and Dicks, Fuel Cell Systems Explained (2nd edition), Wiley,
ISBN-0-470-84857-X (2003)
O'Hayre, Cha, Colella, and Prinz, Fuel Cell Fundamentals, Wiley, ISBN-13
978-0-471-74148-0 (2006)
Thank you and enjoy using these modules.
Jason M. Keith
Houghton, MI
June 2007