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Harper, Gavin. Fuel Cell Projects for the Evil Genius. US: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics, 2008.

Fuel Cell Projects for the Evil Genius

Authors: Gavin Harper

Published:  April 2008

eISBN: 9780071595766 0071595767 | ISBN: 9780071496599
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  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 History of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells
  • 2 The Hydrogen Economy
  • 3 Producing Hydrogen
  • Project 1: Testing for Hydrogen
  • Project 2: Testing for Oxygen
  • Project 3: Investigating Acid–Metal Reactions
  • Project 4: Investigating the Activity of Metals When Producing Hydrogen
  • Project 5: Investigating Water Electrolysis
  • Project 6: Making Fuel from Water with a Hoffman Apparatus
  • 4 Hydrogen Storage
  • Project 7: Using Hydrogen Storage Tanks with Desktop Fuel Cells
  • Project 8: Boyle’s Law and Compressed Hydrogen Storage
  • Project 9: Exploring Charles’ Law
  • Project 10: Making Your Own “Carbon Nanotube”
  • Project 11: Generating Hydrogen Using the H-Gen
  • Project 12: Changing the H-Gen Rate of Reaction
  • 5 Platinum Fuel Cells
  • Project 13: Build Your Own Platinum Fuel Cell
  • 6 Alkaline Fuel Cells
  • Project 14: Making Electricity with Alkaline Fuel Cells
  • Project 15: Plotting the IV Characteristics of an AFC
  • Project 16: Plotting the Power Curve of an AFC
  • Project 17: Comparing the Performance of Different Alkaline Electrolytes
  • Project 18: Comparing the Performance of Different “Hydrogen Carriers”
  • Project 19: Investigating How Temperature Affects Alkaline Fuel Cell Performance
  • Project 20: Investigating AFC Poisoning
  • Project 21: Investigating the AFC’s Need for Oxygen
  • Project 22: Investigating Different Gases at the Anode
  • Project 23: Investigating the Rate of Reaction (Oxygen Consumption) of an AFC
  • 7 PEM Fuel Cells
  • Project 24: Disassembling a Fuel Cell
  • Project 25: Changing MEA Platinum Loading
  • Project 26: Experimenting with Oxygen and Air
  • Project 27: Building Your Own Mini Fuel Cell
  • 8 Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
  • Project 28: Getting to Grips with the Methanol Fuel Cell
  • Project 29: Decommissioning and Recommissioning a Methanol Fuel Cell
  • Project 30: Building a Band-Aid[sup(®)] Fuel Cell
  • 9 Microbial Fuel Cells
  • Project 31: Building Your Own Microbial Fuel Cell
  • 10 High-Temperature Fuel Cells
  • 11 Scratch-Built Fuel Cells
  • Project 32: Making Your Own MEAs
  • 12 Hydrogen Safety
  • 13 Hydrogen Transport
  • Project 33: Building a Simple Fuel Cell Car
  • Project 34: Building an “Intelligent” Fuel Cell Car
  • Project 35: Building a Hydride-Powered Fuel Cell Vehicle
  • Project 36: Building a Radio-Controlled Fuel Cell Vehicle
  • Project 37: Space Travel with Hydrogen! Building a Hydrogen Rocket
  • Project 38: Air Travel with Hydrogen! Building a Hydrogen-Fueled Airship
  • Project 39: Building a Radio-Controlled Airship
  • 14 More Fun with Hydrogen!
  • Project 40: Powering a Radio Using Hydrogen
  • Project 41: Hydrogen-Fueling Your iPod
  • Project 42: Making Hydrogen Bubbles
  • Project 43: Exploding Some Hydrogen Balloons
  • Project 44: Having a Hydrogen Barbecue
  • 15 Fuel Cell Competitions
  • Appendix A: Everything You Wanted to Know About Hydrogen . . . and Then Some
  • Appendix B: Fuel Cell Acronym Buster
  • Appendix C: Fuel Cell Associations
  • Epilogue
  • Index