Lectures related to Fuel Cells: Working Principles

Solar Energy Conversion Devices

Explores solar energy conversion devices, electrochemistry, efficiency calculations, and mass transfer modes in solar energy systems.

Electrochemical Reactions

Explores electrochemical reactions, including electrolysis of NaCl, anodic and cathodic reactions, production rates, and current efficiency.

Electrochemical Thermodynamics: Efficiency and Potentials

Explores electrochemical thermodynamics, efficiency, potentials, and their practical applications in fuel cells and non-standard conditions.

Exergy and Electrical Motors: Fuel Cell Insights

Discusses exergy, electrical motors, and introduces fuel cells, focusing on their efficiency and operational principles.

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Batteries, fuel cells and electrolysis: Electrolysis

Covers challenges in electricity storage, thermodynamics of electrolysis, different electrolysis technologies, and sustainable fuel production.

Fuel Cell: Thermodynamics

Explores the thermodynamics of fuel cells, including reactions, variables, and reversible/irreversible cases.

Thermodynamics: Energy Conversion and System Analysis

Covers the basics of thermodynamics, focusing on energy conversion systems and the principles governing heat to work conversion.

Batteries, fuel cells and electrolysis: Battery principle

Explores the principles of batteries and fuel cells, focusing on their operation and components, illustrated using a classic car battery as an example.

Thermodynamics and Energetics I

Explores fundamental thermodynamics concepts, laws, energy transfer, and system analysis.

Calorimetric Coefficients

Covers the definitions and relationships between calorimetric coefficients in perfect gases.

Exergy and Thermodynamics

Explores exergy, entropy, and thermodynamic efficiencies in closed and open systems.

Thermodynamics: Adiabatic Transformations and Cyclic Processes

Discusses adiabatic transformations, cyclic processes, and the efficiency of thermodynamic cycles in ideal gases.

Thermodynamic Energy Conversion: Chemical to Electrical

Explores the conversion of chemical energy into electrical work and the derivation of Gibbs free energy.

Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Covers entropy, its definition, and its implications in thermodynamics.

Generating Mechanical Work with Thermodynamic Cycles

Explores generating mechanical work with thermodynamic cycles, including the Carnot and Stirling cycles, and the conversion of work into heat.

Physical Meaning of Potentials (conclusion)

Explores the equilibrium between subsystems, heat, work, and energy in thermodynamics.

Specific Heat of Water

Covers the specific heat of water, thermodynamics, and the Dulong-Petit law.

Energy Conservation and Thermodynamic Cycles

Explores energy conservation in closed systems and the significance of thermodynamic cycles, emphasizing performance and efficiency.

Thermodynamics: Energy Transformation

Covers energy transformation in thermodynamics, discussing laws, entropy, and spontaneity criteria for reactions.