Introduction to direct alcohol fuel cells

Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: Materials, Performance, Durability and Applications

Volumn 9789400777088, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-32

  Corti, Horacio R ^a   Gonzalez, Ernesto R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT ALCOHOL FUEL CELLS (DAFC); FUEL CELLS; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; HYDROGEN FUELS; METHANOL;

ELECTRICAL ENERGY; HYDROGEN ECONOMY; METHANOL ECONOMIES; OPERATION MODE; RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 84949178493     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7708-8_1     Document Type: Editorial

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