The Fuel Cell Curriculum Project Website

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Welcome to the Fuel Cell Curriculum Project Website. The goal of this project is to develop modules that bring fuel cell technology into the traditional mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum. The site allows faculty members around the world to have easy access to these modules.

This material is part of the Hydrogen Education Curriculum at Michigan Technological University.

The following table lists mechanical engineering courses and the related modules.  Each module contains a brief background or motivation, an example problem with a solution, and a homework problem. For access to the homework problem solutions, please contact Jason Keith by email at jmkeith at mtu dot edu.

Material and Energy Balances (Stoichiometry)
Module 1: Heat of Formation for Fuel Cell Applications
Module 2: Material Balances in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Module 3: Energy Generation in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Module 4: Generation of Electricity Using Recovered Hydrogen
Thermodynamics
Module 5: Equation of State for Hydrogen Fuel
Module 6: Equilibrium Coefficient and Van't Hoff Equation for Fuel Cell Efficiency
Module 7: Fuel Cell Efficiency
Module 8: Vapor Pressure / Humidity for Fuel Cell Gases
Module 9: Nernst Equation
Fluid Mechanics
Module 10: Pressure Drop in a Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate Channel
Module 11: Finite Difference Method for Flow in a Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate
Heat and Mass Transport
Module 12: Conduction and Convection Heat Transfer
Module 13: Microscopic Balances Applied to Fuel Cells
Module 14: Diffusion Coefficients for Fuel Cell Gases
Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
Module 15: Tafel Equation and Fuel Cell Kinetic Losses
Module 16: Hydrogen Adsorption and Catalyst Surface Coverage
Separations
Module 17: Hydrogen Purification
Module 18: Air Separation for Coal Gasification

Members of the mechanical engineering fuel cell task force are:
Jason Keith (Michigan Technological University)
Jeff Allen (Michigan Technological University)
Dennis Meng (Michigan Technological University)
Abhijit Mukherjee (Michigan Technological University)
Jeff Naber (Michigan Technological University)
              
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