Electrochemical energy engineering: A new frontier of chemical engineering innovation

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 429-454

  Gu, Shuang ^a   Xu, Bingjun ^a   Yan, Yushan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical engineering; Electrochemical engineering; Energy engineering; Fuel cells; Redox flow batteries; Solar hydrogen generators

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; FUEL CELLS; GAS GENERATORS; INNOVATION; SECONDARY BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; FLOW BATTERIES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULA; ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY ENGINEERING; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES; SOLAR HYDROGEN; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING INNOVATIONS;

ELECTROCHEMISTRY; CELL ENGINEERING;

HYDROGEN; OXYGEN;

ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRODE; ENERGY ENGINEERING; EQUIPMENT; FUEL CELLS; INVENTION; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY; REVIEW; SOLAR HYDROGEN GENERATORS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ENERGY ENGINEERING; FUEL CELLS; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES; SOLAR HYDROGEN GENERATORS;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; HYDROGEN; INVENTIONS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; RENEWABLE ENERGY;

EID: 84902482436     PISSN: 19475438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060713-040114     Document Type: Review

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