Application of fuel cell in motor vehicles

ABSTRACTIn the first part of thesis, fuel cell and fuel cell types are investigated in detail. These are fuelcell stack, fuel supplying system, air supplying system, cooling system and control system.Fuel supplying system are examined in two chapter which are direct hydrogen using and fuelreforming system. Hydrogen storage as a compressed, liquified, metal and chemical hydridare analysed and then they are compared one another. Fuel reforming systems are examinedas a steam reforming, partial oxidation reforming and autotermal reforming in three chapter.In addition methanol and gasoline reforming systems are explained and these systems arecompared with direct hydrogen storage. Gas cleaning system where cleans at the and of thereforming system CO in the reformed gas, are investigated in detail. At the end of this partdirect hydrogen using and reforming system models are presented briefly.In the second part of the thesis, hybrid fuel cell vehicle and only fuel cell using vehicles areanalysed and are presented one for each model. In addition to this, fuel cell vehicle cost areexamined and then sankey diagrams of two fuel cell vehicles are explained. At the end of thispart, fuel cell vehicles are compared with internal combustion engines in terms of cost,weight, volume, emisyon and efficiency.Keywords; Fuel cell, Hydrogen storage, Fuel reforming systems, Fuel cell vehicles.