A preliminary life cycle assessment of PEM fuel cell powered automobiles

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2294-2299

  Hussain, M M ^a   Dincer, I ^b   Li, X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automobile; Emission; Energy; Fuel cell; Life cycle assessment

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES; LIFE CYCLE; PROTON EXCHANGE MEMBRANE FUEL CELLS (PEMFC);

FUEL CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA);

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 34248513726     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.01.015     Document Type: Article

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