| Call for papers for the special issue "Fuel Cells" (February 2010) |
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Nowadays, economical development, technological progress, population are responsible for the huge increase of the energetic needs. This unavoidably leads to progressively scarce fossil energetic sources. For that reason, there is a real rush in developing other energetic sources especially renewable energies. As renewable sources of energy are quite fluctuating, they don’t always meet the consumer’s demand. Hydrogen has a good energy specific gravity (120 MJ/kg). On the other hand, fuel cells produce directly electricity with high efficiency, with no toxic gas in their exhaust fumes, and low greenhouse gas rate (N0x, CO2…). Hence hydrogen can become a very attractive energy carrier. To make hydrogen vector a reality soon, several research aspects must be addressed including production, storage, transmission, utilization, as well as the economical and international aspects. This special issue focuses on the utilization concerns considering fuel cell improvements from cell level to system power processing and management. The objective of this Special issue is to present the latest advances in fuel cells design from component to practical system implementation points of view. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Deadline for manuscript submissions: June 15, 2010
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