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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8511

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 77586, US
Interests: Hydrogen flame, Hydrogen combustion, Renewable Energy Sources

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Dear Colleagues,

It is my honor to invite you to submit a paper for the special issue titled, “Hydrogen Fuel and Sustainability,”. Even though hydrogen is presently used in limited aspects of transportation, power generation, and chemical industry, comprehensive use of hydrogen as a fuel in these sectors is impeded by several critical issues: cost effective and efficient production of hydrogen, limited hydrogen infrastructure in terms of hydrogen charging stations, storage issues of hydrogen for longer duration, transportation of hydrogen in pipelines, and safety issues related to hydrogen combustion and explosion.

The overall focus of this special issue is hydrogen as a future sustainable fuel that will be beneficial to environment, economy, and humanity. The scope of the special issues will therefore cover

Research on different means and methods of hydrogen production
Research on various aspects of hydrogen infrastructure including design, safety, economic and technical feasibility
Research on implementation and use of hydrogen in transportation such as hydrogen internal combustion engines, fuel-cell vehicles, stationary power generation using hydrogen fuel-cell, and other applications
Research on hydrogen storage in terms of materials, engineering, economics, safety, and other critical issues
Research on transportation of hydrogen as related to pipeline materials, safety, economics and other related areas
Research on various aspects of hydrogen sustainability including life-cycle analysis, sustainability index and other measures

Authors and researchers conduction original research, reviews, and case studies related to the topics listed above are warmly welcome to submit a paper for publication in this special issue. The special issue will be published also as a book in both e-book and print on demand format.

Thank you for your participation and contribution to this special issue of Hydrogen Fuel and Sustainability.

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Prof. Kendrick Aung
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Hydrogen
Fuels
Hydrogen Combustion
Hydrogen Storage
Hydrogen Production
Sustainability

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Criticality and Life-Cycle Assessment of Materials Used in Fuel-Cell and Hydrogen Technologies

by Mitja Mori, Rok Stropnik, Mihael Sekavčnik and Andrej Lotrič

Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3565; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063565 - 23 Mar 2021

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The purpose of this paper is to obtain relevant data on materials that are the most commonly used in fuel-cell and hydrogen technologies. The focus is on polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells, solid-oxide fuel cells, polymer-electrolyte-membrane water electrolysers and alkaline water electrolysers. An innovative, methodological approach was developed for a preliminary material assessment of the four technologies. This methodological approach leads to a more rapid identification of the most influential or critical materials that substantially increase the environmental impact of fuel-cell and hydrogen technologies. The approach also assisted in amassing the life-cycle inventories—the emphasis here is on the solid-oxide fuel-cell technology because it is still in its early development stage and thus has a deficient materials’ database—that were used in a life-cycle assessment for an in-depth material-criticality analysis. All the listed materials—that either are or could potentially be used in these technologies—were analysed to give important information for the fuel-cell and hydrogen industries, the recycling industry, the hydrogen economy, as well as policymakers. The main conclusion from the life-cycle assessment is that the polymer-electrolyte-membrane water electrolysers have the highest environmental impacts; lower impacts are seen in polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells and solid-oxide fuel cells, while the lowest impacts are observed in alkaline water electrolysers. The results of the material assessment are presented together for all the considered materials, but also separately for each observed technology. Full article

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Fuel Cell Characteristic Curve Approximation Using the Bézier Curve Technique

by Mohamed Louzazni, Sameer Al-Dahidi and Marco Mussetta

Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8127; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198127 - 1 Oct 2020

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Accurate modelling of the fuel cell characteristics curve is essential for the simulation analysis, control management, performance evaluation, and fault detection of fuel cell power systems. However, the big challenge in fuel cell modelling is the multi-variable complexity of the characteristic curves. In this paper, we propose the implementation of a computer graphic technique called Bézier curve to approximate the characteristics curves of the fuel cell. Four different case studies are examined as follows: Ballard Systems, Horizon H-12 W stack, NedStackPS6, and 250 W proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC). The main objective is to minimize the absolute errors between experimental and calculated data by using the control points of the Bernstein–Bézier function and de Casteljau’s algorithm. The application of this technique entails subdividing the fuel cell curve to some segments, where each segment is approximated by a Bézier curve so that the approximation error is minimized. Further, the performance and accuracy of the proposed techniques are compared with recent results obtained by different metaheuristic algorithms and analytical methods. The comparison is carried out in terms of various statistical error indicators, such as Individual Absolute Error (IAE), Relative Error (RE), Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Bias Errors (MBE), and Autocorrelation Function (ACF). The results obtained by the Bézier curve technique show an excellent agreement with experimental data and are more accurate than those obtained by other comparative techniques. Full article

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