期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2015
期号：SASURIE
页码：462
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Research and development throughout the world for an effective alternat e to the fossil fuel energy has continuously persisted and fuel cell technology is here to stay. The fuel cell is the newest source of energy that offers many benefits over conventional sources of energy such as gasoline power IC engines or coal powered plants. A fuel cell is a co ntinuous feed primary cell. It uses hydrogen and oxygen to produce electric current with the only by products being heat and pure water. Fuel cells produce DC current and they can be used in the same manner as batteries. They do not require any recharging. The race between fuel cells and IC engines has reached its mid way and the former has already competed the later due to its higher efficiency, zero emissions of obnoxious gases and usage of renewable sources of energy as fuel. As a coin has two sides fuel cell also has so me disadvantages. Some of them at t he current time in the nutshell are that they are generally large, expensive and difficulty in the storage and transportation of pure hydrogen. In spite of all these problems the develop ment of fuel cells has geared up due to the green house gases emitted by IC engines. These have created environmental hazards like global warming and ozone layer depletion, which are to a stage of concern now. So we can surely say fuel cells are the power of future. The origin, working and application of fuel cells are reviewed in this paper.
