Najważniejsze materiały
przyszłości – ciała stałe.
WYKŁAD V
A. Kryzys energetyczny i nowe paliwa. Wodór jako paliwo.
B. Dlaczego wodór? Trochę historii. Stan obecny zagadnienia. Przyszłość.
C. Najważniejsze problemy i wyzwania. Zalety
magazynowania w fazie stałej. Jak moze pomóc teoria?
D. Ogniwa paliwowe: budowa, rodzaje i zastosowania.
“I believe that one day hydrogen and oxygen, which together form water, will be used either alone or together as an inexhaustible source of heat and light”
(Jules Verne, The mysterious island, 1874)
THE DREAM
Some history
16th century – F. B. Paracelsus (Swiss…) first described an air which bursts forth like the wind 1671 – Robert Boyle published a paper in which he described the reaction between iron filings and dilute acids which results in the evolution of gas
1766 – Henry Cavendish discovers “inflammable gas from metals” (Lavoisier gives the name for it in 1783)
1783 – J. A. C. Charles suggests using hydrogen in balloons
Nov.25, 1793 – the first balloon is sent up from British soil
1807 – Dalton’s theory of atoms is published;
was the symbol used for hydrogen
May 6, 1937 – the Hindenburg tragedy Jan. 28, 1986 – the Challenger space shuttle catastrophe
1980’s – numerous explosions in the diborane factories
1839 – William Robert Grove invents fuel cell 1960’s – NASA searches for energy supplies for the spacecraft
1998–2000 Ballard Power Systems introduces 205 kW fuel cells being used in six buses in the U.S. (Chicago) and Canada (Vancouver)
May 1999 – the first public liquid–hydrogen filling station has been opened in at Munich Airport
Feb. 2001 – Eur. Comm. funds the FUCHSIA Project Feb. 2001 – a six-month tour of a fleet of ten BMW 750hL liquid hydrogen powered sedans around the globe starts in oil–producing Dubai (UAE)
Aug. 2001 – the first solar-powered hydrogen production and fueling station in the Los Angeles area opened by American Honda Motor Co.
2003 – Toyota Motor Co. is poised to be the first to offer a pure-hydrogen fuel cell vehicle to a limited public 2010/2020 – mass production of the fuel cell-powered vehicles is expected