Fuel Cell Technology ME 495 and ME 499 2009 Reporting Requirements UWME Design for Environment Homepage Instructors: Joyce Smith Cooper (cooper@me.washington.edu) and Per Reinhall (reinhall@u.washington.edu); office hours by appointment Class meetings, MW 9:30-11 in MEB G031 Introductory lecture: Bipolar Plates as an example using the ME design process (in pdf) Business planning guideance Related Publications: 1. Mehta, V., J.S. Cooper, “Review and analysis of PEM fuel cell design and manufacturing,” Journal of Power Sources, 114 (1) 32-53 (2003) 2. Cooper, J.S., “Performance Analysis of the Use and Recycling of Platinum and Other Catalyst Metals in PEM Fuel Cell Vehicles.” Proceedings for the Air & Waste Management Association’s 96th Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 22-25 (2003) 3. Cooper, J.S., “Recyclability of Fuel Cell Power Trains,” Proceedings of the SAE 2004 World Congress, 2004-01-1136 (2004) 4. Cooper, J.S. “Design Analysis of PEMFC Bipolar Plates Considering Stack Manufacturing and Environmental Impact,” Journal of Power Sources, 129, 152-169 (2004) 5. Cooper, J.S., S. Lee, J. Elter, J. Boussu, S. Boman "Life cycle design metrics for energy generation technologies: Method, data, and case study,” Journal of Power Sources, 186, 138-157 (2008)  PAST STUDENT REPORTS Bipolar Plate Design Earlier machined plate reports at the front desk of the Chemistry Library Spring 2002 (molded plates) Summer 2002 (molded plates) Spring 2003 (molded plates, plate testing) Bipolar Plate Machining (code) Winter 2006 (molded plates) Main report MSDSs Cost analysis Test data Compression data Plate files Spring 2006 (composite/ stainless) Main report Mold files MEA Production Autumn 2002 Winter 2003 Spring 2003 (MEA printing, appendix A, appendix D) Spring 2004 Lab Processes Spring 2005 Electrical schematic and mechanical schematic Design of Experiments (and supporting data) Spring 2006 Resistivity Testing (see equipment and notebook in lab) Stack design Spring 2005 Stack design Winter 2008 Stack prototyping and design Spring 2008 Stack redesign Fuel Cell Applications Spring 2005 Fuel Cell Bicycle FUEL CELL TEXTS Thomas, S., M. Zalbowitz, Fuel Cells Green Power, Los Alamos National Laboratory publication (pdf available at http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/nmsb/hydrogen/Guide%20to%20Fuel%20Cells.pdf) EG&G Services and SAIC (2000) Fuel Cell Handbook 7th Edition, prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy (pdf at http://www.brennstoffzellen.rwth-aachen.de/Links/FCHandbook7.pdf)   The Fuel Cells 2000 website (http://www.fuelcells.org/) and library (http://www.fuelcells.org/info/fclib.html)    For more information, contact Associate Professor Joyce Smith Cooper at cooper@me.washington.edu