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A fuel cell is simply a device with two electrodes and an electrolyte for extracting power from the oxidation of a fuel without combustion, converting the power released directly into electricity. The fuel is usually hydrogen. The principle of a fuel cell was first demonstrated by Sir William Grove in London in 1839 with sulphuric acid and platinum gauze as an electrocatalyst, and thereafter there were very occasional attempts to develop the principle, not all of which were based on sound scientific principles , as one commentator put it. [Pg.452]

The problem was solved by Francis Bacon, a British scientist and engineer, who developed an idea proposed by Sir William Grove in 18.39. A fuel cell generates electricity directly from a chemical reaction, as in a battery, but uses reactants that are supplied continuously, as in an engine. A fuel cell that runs on hydrogen and oxygen is currently installed on the space shuttle (see Fig. L.l). An advantage of this fuel cell is that the only product of the cell reaction, water, can be used for life support. [Pg.639]

Appleby, A. J. From Sir William Grove to today Fuel cells and the future. Journal of Power Sources 1990 29 3-11. [Pg.97]

Corrosion and Protection Centre, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 IQD, England Sherwin Williams Company Research Center, 10909 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL 60628... [Pg.36]

The basic principles were stated more than 100 years ago by Sir William Grove in 1839 ( 2) but the first real application was made in the American space flights of Gemini and the Apollo moon trips. After more than a decade of intense activity in fuel cell R and D, the commercial availability of these units is now in sight... [Pg.303]

Pauer LR, Olivares J, Cimningham C, Williams A, Grove W, Kraker A, Olson S, Nemunaitis J (2004) Cancer Invest 22 886... [Pg.332]

Ever since Volta s first battery in 1800, scientists have been trying to develop bigger and better electrochemical cells. Sir William Robert Grove (1811-96), a lawyer from Wales who had a penchant for experimental science, discovered an interesting cell in 1838. He placed one end of a... [Pg.139]

Welsh lawyer Sir William Robert Grove (1811-96) invents a hydrogen fuel cell. [Pg.160]

One area of research that will advance in years to come is the study of fuel cells. The first fuel cell was actually produced in 1839 by Sir William Grove (1811-1896). A... [Pg.188]

Such cells are called fuel cells and were discovered as long ago as 1839 by Sir William Grove, who noticed that, when water had been electrolyzed and the hydrogen and oxygen products were left in contact with the electrodes, the cell could run backward, producing a current in an external circuit. Yet it is only relatively recently that fuel cells have attracted major industrial interest. For reasons that will emerge later, the reaction usually chosen is that discovered by Grove ... [Pg.309]


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