Publications
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Publications Database offers a wide variety of documents related to hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that were written or edited by NREL staff and subcontractors. The following selection provides a sampling of recent technical highlights, fact sheets, and technical reports that are included in the database.
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Highlights
Scale Up of Extended Thin Film Electrocatalyst Structures, technical highlight about NREL's work on gram-quantity fuel cell catalyst materials, showing the viability of scale up, January 2011
More Than 410,000 Hours of Real-World Fuel Cell System Operation Have Been Analyzed by NREL's Technology Validation Team, technical highlight about NREL's work to validate hydrogen and fuel cell systems in real-world settings, February 2011
NREL Supports Development of New National Code for Hydrogen Technologies, technical highlight about NREL's support of the NFPA 2 Hydrogen Technologies Code, which covers hydrogen dispensing, production, and storage, December 2010
NREL Advances Spillover Materials for Hydrogen Storage, technical highlight about advancing spillover materials for hydrogen storage and improving the reproducible synthesis, long-term durability, and costs of hydrogen storage materials, December 2010
Computational Science Guides and Accelerates Hydrogen Research, technical highlight about using computational science to enhance hydrogen-related research and development in areas such as storage and photobiology, December 2010
NREL Develops Accelerated Sample Activation Process for Hydrogen Storage Materials, technical highlight about a new sample activation process that substantially reduces the time required to prepare samples for hydrogen storage measurements and provides more uniform samples, December 2010
Codes and Standards Gap Analysis Helps DOE Define Research Priorities, technical highlight about NREL's analysis of gaps in codes and standards for alternative vehicle fuels, November 2010
Fuel Cell Power Model Elucidates Life-Cycle Costs for Fuel Cell-Based Combined Heat, Hydrogen, and Power Production Systems, technical highlight about NREL's cost modeling for fuel cell-based combined heat, hydrogen, and power systems, November 2010
Integrated System Dramatically Improves Hydrogen Molar Yield from Biomass via Fermentation, technical highlight about the fermentative and electrohydrogenic production of hydrogen from corn stover, November 2010
Cost Analysis Highlights Hydrogen's Potential for Electrical Energy Storage, technical highlight comparing the cost of hydrogen storage to other energy storage technologies, November 2010
NREL Reports Increase in Durability and Reliability for Current Generation Fuel Cell Buses, technical highlight about NREL's evaluation of fuel cell buses in transit service, November 2010
NREL Develops Technique to Measure Membrane Thickness and Defects in Polymer Electrode Membrane Fuel Cells, technical highlight about NREL's fuel cell membrane electrode assembly research, November 2010
NREL Develops Test Facility and Test Protocols for Hydrogen Sensor Performance, technical highlight about NREL's quantitative assessment of hydrogen sensors, November 2010
NREL Improves System Efficiency and Increases Energy Transfer with Wind2H2 Project, Enabling Reduced Cost Electrolysis Production, technical highlight about increasing energy transfer in a wind turbine-based hydrogen production system, November 2010
NREL Publishes Deployment-Focused "Composite Data Products" for Fuel Cell Demonstrations Funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, technical highlight about NREL's evaluation of early fuel cell market projects, November 2010
NREL Showcases Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine Bus, Helps DOE Set Standards for Outreach, technical highlight about NREL's efforts to showcase a Ford hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine vehicle, November 2010
Fact Sheets
Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, fact sheet about NREL's Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, January 2011
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, fact sheet about the opportunities and benefits related to hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, February 2011
Hydrogen Sensor Testing, fact sheet about hydrogen detectors and NREL's hydrogen sensor laboratory, November 2008
Hydrogen Technologies Group, fact sheet about the Hydrogen Technologies Group in NREL's Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, March 2008
Hydrogen Analysis Group, fact sheet about the Hydrogen Analysis Group in NREL's Hydrogen Technologies and Systems Center, March 2008
Technical Reports
Zero Emission Bay Area (ZEBA) Fuel Cell Bus Demonstration: First Results Report, technical report by Kevin Chandler and Leslie Eudy, August 2011
Wind Electrolysis: Hydrogen Cost Optimization, technical report by Genevieve Saur and Todd Ramsden, May 2011
Learning Demonstration Interim Progress Report, technical report by Keith Wipke, Sam Sprik, Jen Kurtz, and Todd Ramsden, September 2010
Manufacturing Readiness Assessment for Fuel Cell Stacks and Systems for the Back-up Power and Material Handling Equipment Emerging Markets, technical report by Doug Wheeler and Mike Ulsh, February 2010
The Wind-to-Hydrogen Project: Operational Experience, Performance Testing, and System Integration, technical report by Kevin Harrison, Gregory Martin, Todd Ramsden, and Bill Kramer, March 2009
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