Solid Oxide Fuel Cells: From Fundamental Principles to Complete Systems is a valuable resource for beginners, experienced researchers, and developers of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). It provides a fundamental understanding of SOFCs by covering the present state-of-the-art as well as ongoing research and future challenges to be solved. It discusses current and future materials, and provides an overview of development activities with a more general system approach toward fuel cell plant technology, including plant design and economics, industrial data, and advances in technology.

Key Features

• Provides an understanding of the operating principles of SOFCs

• Discusses state-of-the-art materials, technologies, and processes

• Includes a review of the current industry and lessons learned

• Offers a more general system approach toward fuel cell plant technology, including plant design and economics of SOFC manufacture

• Covers significant technical challenges that remain to be solved

• Presents the status of government activities, industry, and market

This book is aimed at electrochemists, batteries and fuel cell engineers, alternative energy scientists, and professionals in materials science.