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Fuel Cell Systems, Total Cost of Ownership

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Fuel cell:

an electrochemical technology that can produce electricity or heat from a cell or a repeating unit that converts chemical energy from a fuel into electricity.

PEM fuel cell:

a type of fuel cell which operates at low temperature (50–100 °C) and has a polymer electrolyte membrane between the cell anode and cathode.

SOFC fuel cell:

a type of fuel cell (solid oxide fuel cell) that operates at higher temperatures (500–1000 °C) and which has a solid oxide or ceramic electrolyte.

MEA (membrane electrode assembly) and EEA (electrode electrolyte assembly):

the electrochemical unit cell for PEM and SOFC, respectively, with anode/electrolyte/cathode layer composition specific to each technology.

Fuel cell stack:

a collection of unit fuel cells connected in series form a fuel cell stack.

Fuel cell system:

a fuel cell stack and associated balance of plant components that together make up an entire system.

Balance of plant:

the balance of system components that are needed to form a...

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    Ahmad Mayyas & Tim Lipman

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Shuk Han Chan, Joshua Chien & David Gosselin

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Wei, M. et al. (2018). Fuel Cell Systems, Total Cost of Ownership. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_1020-1

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