Direct Liquid Fuel Cells

Recent Advances and Challenges and the Sustainable Energy Transition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-83266-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This edited guide to direct liquid fuel cells (DLFCs) provides readers with a detailed discussion of their characteristics, mechanisms, and role in global decarbonization. Expert contributors address various facets including their working mechanisms, sustainability, life cycle assessment, and more.

Readers will gain an expansive understanding and benefit from the discussion of various DLFCs. The contributors provide an overview of fuel cells, including their principles and role in global decarbonization, a discussion of DLFCs’ sustainability and environmental impact, and a summary of the current state of knowledge on their different components, considering the importance of sustainable and low carbon emissions. They also address different liquids and their characteristics, such as methanol, ethanol, formic acid and dimethyl ether, and the applications for which each type are best used. Encountered challenges, system design, and commercialization considerations are also discussed, with the conclusion addressing the future outlook and perspectives on DLFCs. In addition to discussing the various types of liquid fuel cells and their respective benefits and drawbacks, contributors provide real-world examples of challenging issues and their respective solutions.

This all-inclusive and cross-disciplinary resource is a vital guide for researchers and undergraduate and graduate students studying renewable energy, energy storage and conversion, and decarbonization towards Net Zero.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wani, Ajaz Ahmad

Shaari, Norazuwana Binti

Kamarudin, Siti Kartom

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Alternative und erneuerbare Energien
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Energietechnik & Elektrotechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Fundamental Principles of Direct Liquid Fuel Cell Technology and Role in Global Decarbonization System 2 System Design, Sustainability, and Efficiency in Direct Liquid Fuel Cells 3 Direct Methanol Fuel Cells; Perspectives in Energy Transition and Sustainability 4 Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells: Engineering Towards Net Zero Carbon Emission 5 Advances in membrane and Catalyst in Direct Formic Acid Fuel Cells (DFAFCs) 6 Advances in Membrane and Catalyst in Direct Dimethyl Ether Fuel Cells (DDMEFCs) 7 System Design and Commercialization Aspect of Direct Liquid Fuel Cell Technology 8 Conclusion and Future Challenges in Direct Liquid Fuel Cells

Über Autor(innen)

Norazuwana Binti Shaari is a senior lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and an industry consultant for UKM Pakarunding. She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2010 and 2013, repsecitvely, and her PhD from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2018.

Ajaz Ahmad Wani is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. He obtained his BSc from the University of Kashmir, India, in 2011, his MSc from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, in 2014, his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University in 2022, and his postdoc from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2024.

Siti Kartom Kamarudin has been a professor of chemical engineering at the Department of Chemical & Process Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, since 2011. She is now the director of the Fuel Cell Institute of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.