By Bruce Lin — last updated This summer 2014

Mtss is a web site about fuel cell scooters, in line with the Master’s thesis I carried out late 1999 at Princeton College (Mechanical Engineering Department). Within the thesis, I explored the potential of replacing the 2-stroke engines broadly utilized in Asian scooters with hydrogen fuel cell engines. My consultant was Professor Robert Socolow and that i labored using the former Center for Energy and Ecological Studies (the Energy Number of the Princeton Ecological Institute).

After graduating from Princeton College, I became a member of fuel cell leader Ballard Power Systems. where I had been an evaluation engineer within the direct methanol fuel cell group. Later, I labored on improving fuel cell performance at freezing temperatures. A lot of our work in the region was presented inside a 2005 U.S. United states doe workshop: Fuel Cell Operations at Sub-Freezing Temperatures. Next I had been Mind of Stack Development and Mind of System Development at CMR Fuel Cells. a little United kingdom company developing compact direct methanol fuel cells for laptop computers.

I presently lead the machine engineering team at EnerVault. a Plastic Valley company developing flow battery energy storage systems – quantity eleectrochemical cell, that may unlock the potential for solar and wind power by storing energy cheaply, reliably, and securely.

Review of the thesis

Current two-stroke engines are usually highly polluting, and lots of Asian governments are promoting electric vehicles operated by batteries. However, fuel cells would also produce minimal emissions in the tail pipe, and furthermore might have the advantage of faster refueling. This thesis studies that possiblity.

Major topics include: drive cycle modelling, fuel cell design, and hydrogen fuel storage. Other conditions worked with include cost estimation, energy-efficiency, hydrogen distribution. A few of the technical assumptions happen to be made obsolete through the rapid pace of fuel cell technology development, and fuel cell design concepts tend to be more broadly currently available than in 1999, however the approach continues to be valid.

The work was begun in April 1998 and handle September 1999. Servings of the work were presented in the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium working in london. The outcomes also made an appearance within the proceedings from the conference: “Conceptual design and modeling of the fuel cell scooter for urban Asia”,Journal of Power Sources86 (2000) pp. 202-213.

The job has since gone onto be broadly reported.

Download the thesis

Download the whole thesis here. (6.6MB Pdf for that free Acrobat Readers, click here ).

Or, download individual chapters:

• Chapter abstract, acknowldgments, table of contents (32 KB)
• Chapter 1 introduction (2132 KB)
• Chapter 2 electric drive (152 KB)
• Chapter 3 fuel cells and hydrogen storage(446 KB)
• Chapter 4 modeling and style (1613 KB)
• Chapter 5 financial aspects and implementation (70 KB)
• Appendices (2311 KB)

Additional content

• errata.txt Errata observed after publication
• thanks.txt Additional acknowledgments
• Guidelines. Some conversion factors and estimates of numerous coefficients and gratifaction figures.

The URL with this page is world wide web.brucelin.ca/scooters/index.html

Last updated This summer 2014
Contact the writer at bruce@brucelin.ca