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Title: Fuel Cell Systems Explained by James Larminie, Andrew Dicks ISBN: 0-470-84857-X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $130.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great starting point
Comment: This book is a must read for anyone wanting to get into the fuel cell industry. I am a graduate researcher at a fuel cell lab and after borrowing my copy several colleagues have purchased their own. It gives a complete survey of the major fuel cell technologies and additionally covers many of related issue effecting fuel cell commercialization such as fuel storage. This text is very suited for a undergraduate course in fuel cells.
Rating: 4
Summary: Down to earth
Comment: I'm a first year science student and found this novel very helpful for a science report on the hydrogen fuel cell. High recommend!
Rating: 5
Summary: Encompassing. Helpfully Technical--Yet Also Very Readable.
Comment: Fuel cells including their ranging balance of plant, are quite difficult to write about in usefully technical fashion, because the authors must have expertise across so many various disciplines: i.e. chemistry, engineering, materials, thermodynamics, systems theory, etc.
Yet Larminie and Dicks are clearly up to the task, and we are the more fortunate for it. They've done the trick of not only writing a technically-inclined and broadly encompassing work for a fast-growing field (one that's much in need of such books now)--but they've also done it in a way that's surprisingly quite readable.
This book could serve as an excellent self-instruction text for those new to fuel cells, or as a very helpful text for experts in particular fuel cell types who wish to brush up on other systems. And it could be used in any university level class. Should I be pursuaded to lend my copy briefly to someone I know well, then I shall also take care to ensure that I get it back promptly!
It is quite reasonably up to date and highlights for instance Basic Principles; Efficiencies and Voltages; PEMFCs, AFCs, PAFCs; MCFCs; SOFCs; various possible fuel types; compressors, turbines, fans, blowers (etc); delivering FC power, among other topics.
Remarkably, this book even happened to cover a very wide swath of topics that are of a personal interest--despite their diversity. I might suggest more discussion on just a few quite developing topics like sodium borohydride as an H2 storage/generation medium. Yet I note too that near-term emerging topics like that (and much farther off, potential blue sky topics like carbon nanotubes) are likely best left for a future edition of this excellent book.
In sum, I highly recommend this book. It's usefully technical yet readable, essential for fuel cell enthusiasts. Though rather dear, it is I believe well worth the price...
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Title: Fuel Cell Technology Handbook by Gregor Hoogers ISBN: 0849308771 Publisher: CRC Press Pub. Date: 27 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $99.95 |
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Title: Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World by Tom Koppel ISBN: 0471644218 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 29 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Fuel from Water: Energy Independence With Hydrogen by Michael A. Peavey, Peavey Michael A. ISBN: 0945516045 Publisher: Merit Products Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet by Peter Hoffmann ISBN: 026258221X Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin ISBN: 1585421936 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 12 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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