Design Principles of Fuel Cells

Fuel-cell-based power plants (or electrochemical generators, the rather appropriate Russian term) have several constituent parts (1) the fuel cell battery or stack itself (2) vessels for the reactants (hydrogen or methanol oxygen when needed) (3) special devices controlling the supply of reactants and withdrawal of the reaction products according to their consumption and formation in the electrochemical reactions  

In the design of membrane-type fuel cell stacks (batteries), membrane-electrode assemblies (MEAs) are used, which consist of a sheet of membrane and of the two electrodes (positive and negative) pressed onto it from either side. 

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Wendt H, Rohland B (1991) Design principles of fuel cells and their components. In Kreysa G (ed) Electrochemical cell design and optimization procedures. DECHEMA Monographs, vol 123. VCH, Weinheim... 

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