Introduction to the Regenesys System

Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen - An Exergy Approach Frederick J. Barclay 2006 John Wiley Sons, Ltd 

REGENERATIVE EUEL CELLS OR REDOX ELOW BATTERIES 

The reader, even when reassured by the foreword, may still be reluctant, after reading Chapter 1, to forsake the ingrained notion that irreversible combustion is somehow relevant to equilibrium fuel cells. But here in ESS-RGN are fuel cells, with liquid reactants and products, and without oxygen Combustion cannot be relevant to the Regenesys system, as described below, and in the abb.com reference (Power Conversion Section, 2004) Electricity from the Store . 

In electrochemistry and its electrode reactions, the addition of electrons constitutes reduction the removal of electrons constitutes oxidation, an accepted generalisation which explains the allocation of the term fuel cell to Regenesys. 

With ambient temperature aqueous reactants and products, which are liquids of very small compressibility compared with gases, there is insignificant pump work associated with reactant circulation. In the 

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