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Feasibility Study of Application of Developing New Techniques for Fuel Cell Vehicle by Focusing on Nanotechnology

Salehi, Mohammad Bagher | 2009

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 39929 (01)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Industrial Engineering
  6. Advisor(s): Mostafavi, Mostafa
  7. Abstract:
  8. Due to daily decrease of fossil energy resources, increase of environmental pollution which is included of toxic and greenhouse gases, and extensive growing rate of demands in transportation industry, especially vehicle industry, developing solutions in using fuel cells are vital for this industry in our country. Fuel cells are green, efficient and also powerful energy generators. According to potential advantages of fuel cells, structure, performance, benefits and also types of fuel cells are introduced as a desired energy resource. Indentifying existing choices of energy generators and ranking them using MCDM (Multi-Criteria Decision Making) technique was the first step to perform a technical and economical analysis on fuel cells. Afterwards, analyzing criteria were identified and those which needed to be more considered were also evaluated. Using the Hax technology developing strategy model, usable technologies in vehicle industry with classifying are selected. Technical knowledge, expert human resources, and equipments (hardware) are three considered areas of needed information. Each one of these areas is divided into laboratory and industrial (semi-industrial is also included in this category) scales. According to defined fuel cells sub-systems, decision making is implemented in stack and fuel processing sub-systems. Each sub-system is analyzed using both attractiveness and in-house development weights, separately. Rankings of decision choices using TOPSIS method are also presented in this thesis. Due to importance and necessity of potential development in vehicle industry fuel processing sub-system and considering three common fields of fuel production, purifying and storage and also storage technologies development in our country, hydrogen storage technology using nanotube carbon is selected as a future technology which also belongs to Hi-Tech category. Finally, sensitivity analysis with increasing the weight of nanotechnology criteria in the fuel processing sub-system are performed for both attractiveness and in-house development weights. Results show that technical knowledge, equipment and expert human resources in industrial (semi-industrial) scale have highest priority in both attractiveness and in-house development weights, respectively.

  9. Keywords:
  10. Fuel Cell ; Economic Analysis ; Multicriteria Decision Making ; Nanotechnology ; Vehicle Power System

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