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COURSE DESCRIPTION

FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS/5741309

Course Title:	FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Course Semester	1	Type of The Course	Elective

COURSE INFORMATION

-- (CATALOG CONTENT)

-- (TEXTBOOK)

-- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)

•	Hecker, V., Mitsushima, S., “Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: From Fundamentals to Applied Research”,  ISBN:978-0-12-811459-9, 1st Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, USA, (2018).
•	Breeze, Paul, “Fuel Cell”, 1st Edition, ISBN: 978-0-08-101039-6 Elsevier Academic Press, USA, (2017).
•	Nigel Sammes (Ed), “Fuel Cell Technology: Reaching Towards Commercialization”,  Springer-Verlag London Limited (2006).
•	Suddhasatwa Basu (Ed),  “Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology”, Anamaya Publishers, New Delhi, India (2007).
•	Sorensen, B., “Hydrogen and Fuel Celss”, 3rd Edition., Elsevier Academic Press, USA, (2004).
•	Kulikovsky, A.Andrei, “Analytical Modelling of Fuel Cells”, Elsevier Academic Press, USA, (2010).
•	Hoffmann, P., Harkin, T., “Tomorrow’s Energy:Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Prospects for a Cleaner Planet”, Elsevier Press Co., UK, (2003).
•	Blomen, J.M.J.L., Mugerwa, M.N., “Fuel Cell Systems”,  1st Edition, Plenum Press Co., USA, (1993).
•	Knoshita, K., McLarnon, F.R., Cairns, E.J., “Fuel Cells: A Handbook”, (US Department of Energy, Morgantown, WV, 1988), DOE/METCS88/6096.

-- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- COURSE OBJECTIVES

-- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

To gain the basic concepts related with fuel celss and basic principles of their working
Ability to understand and to solve the problems related with fuel cell processes
To gain the literature survey and paper examination skills by means of the homeworks and term papers
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-- MODE OF DELIVERY

Face to face

--WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week	Introduction: Advantages and disadvantages of fuel cells, their importance and application areas.
2. Week	Structure and operating principles of fuel cell: Basic elements and their functions, electrochemical processes and electricity production.
3. Week	Structure and operating principles of fuel cell: Basic elements and their functions, electrochemical processes and electricity production.
4. Week	Transport phenomena in fuel cells.
5. Week	Modelling of fuel cell:Single dimensional membrane, single dimensional electrode, on two-dimensional channel, along two-dimensional channel andthree dimensional models.
6. Week	Thermodynamic analysis and theoretical efficiency of fuel cells.
7. Week	Loss in fuel cell:Polariztions and Tafel curve, 1st Midterm.
8. Week	Fuels Used in Fuel cells:Their properties, advantags and disadvantages.
9. Week	Week: Fuels Used in Fuel cells:Their properties, advantags and disadvantages.
10. Week	Types of fuel cells. Classification of fuel cell according to their working temperature, fuels and their electrolytes. Anode and cathode reactions.
11. Week	Hydrogen fuel cells. Application areas, advantages and disadvantages.
12. Week	Production methods, storage and transportation of hydrogen.
13. Week	Production methods, storage and transportation of hydrogen. 2nd Midterm.
14. Week	Developments required for the proliferation of fuel cells
15. Week	-
16. Week	-

-- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS

-- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

	Quantity	Total Weighting (%)
Midterm Exams	2	30
Assignment	4	10
Application	0	0
Projects	1	20
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0

Percent of In-term Studies		60
Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score		40

-- WORKLOAD

Activity	Total Number of Weeks	Duration (weekly hour)	Total Period Work Load
Weekly Theoretical Course Hours	14	3	42
Weekly Tutorial Hours	0	0	0
Reading Tasks	14	3	42
Searching in Internet and Library	14	3	42
Material Design and Implementation	0	0	0
Report Preparing	12	3	36
Preparing a Presentation	2	3	6
Presentation	1	1	1
Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam	4	5	20
Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam	2	5	10
Other (should be emphasized)	0	0	0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			199
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.96
Course Credit (ECTS):			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

(Prof. Dr. İrfan AR , Prof. Dr. Göksel Özkan)

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

( http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/irfanar , http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/gozkan)

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

( irfanar@gazi.edu.tr , gozkan@gazi.edu.tr)

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