Fuel Cells

Cards (28)

  • What are the products of hydrogen and oxygen?
    Electricity, water vapor
  • What do you call a simple energy generation with little to no carbon footprint?
    Emissions-free power
  • What energy does the cell give to produce electrical energy?
    Chemical energy
  • Where does the chemical energy of a fuel cell come from?
    Hydrogen gas and Oxidizing agent
  • What type of chemical reaction do electrochemical reactions use to produce electricity?
    Redox Reaction
  • What does hydrogen put out after an electrochemical reaction?
    Water vapor and electricity
  • Aside from hydrogen, what do fuel cells require to function?
    Oxygen
  • Who first demonstrated fuel cell in 1839?
    Sir William Grove
  • What novel form of electric cell did William Robert Grove?

    Grove Cell
  • When did Sir William Grove develop the first fuel cell?
    1842
  • What is the first fuel cell called?
    Gas Voltaic Battery
  • What comprises the gas voltaic battery?
    Hydrogen, oxygen, water
  • What is the negative post of the fuel cell?
    Anode
  • What is the electrode where the oxidation takes place?
    Anode
  • What conducts the electrons that are freed from the hydrogen molecules so that they can be used in an external circuit?

    Anode
  • What are etched channels disperse hydrogen gas over the surface of catalysts?
    Anode
  • What is the positive post of the cell?
    Cathode
  • What conducts the electrons back from the external circuit to the catalyst, where they can recombine with the hydrogen ions and oxygen to form water?
    Cathode
  • Where the does the cell picks up electrons and then travels through the electrolyte to the anode?
    Cathode
  • What are etched channels that distribute to the surface of the catalyst?
    Cathode
  • What are chemical substances that increase the rate of the reaction?
    Catalysts
  • What is a special material that facilitates the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen?
    Catalysts
  • What is the usual composition of fuel cell catalysts?

    Platinum powder
  • What makes rough and porous texture essential in catalysts?
    Maximizes surface area exposed to hydrogen and oxygen
  • What is a substance that conducts charged ions from one electrode to the other in a fuel cell?
    Electrolyte
  • What is known as the proton exchange membrane?

    Electrolyte
  • What does electrolyte conduct?
    positively charged ions
  • What does electrolyte do to electrons?

    Block