This presentation is extracted from a resource created for theRoyal Institution / Royal Academy of Engineering ‘Engineering Masterclass’  programme.

Featuring images from ‘Fuel Cell Projects for the Evil Genius’ and ‘Run Your Diesel Vehicle on Biofuels’

Diagram of Grove’s Original Fuel Cell

The Fuel Cell is not a new concept. The first fuel cell was developed in 1845 by the Welsh scientist Sir William Robert Grove.

A fuel cell converts chemical energy to electrical energy using the process of catalysis.

Remember!Catalysts are not used or consumed in a reaction – a 

catalyst increases the rate of a chemical reaction. 

• Where did Sir William Robert Grove the inventor of the Fuel Cell come from?

• Using the process called electrolysis, what can we split water into?

• What does a fuel cell produce?

•Paperback: 196 pages •Publisher:McGraw‐Hill/TAB Electronics •Language: English •ISBN‐10: 0071496599 •ISBN‐13: 978‐0071496599 You can find more experiments with Fuel Cells, information about cleanenergy and information about how to take the learning in today’smasterclass forward in ‘Fuel Cells Projects for the Evil Genius’.